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Ab Tak Chhappan 2
This picture is still in the ‘90s. I’m pretty sure the audience has moved on.
Mar 2015
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3 Storeys
Internet is really where the scene for this film's genre is. Would I've happily caught this online? Yes. But the invitation is for the big screen? That's being thoda sa ambitious, I think.
Mar 2018
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Sarkar 3
...I don't particularly hate this Sarkar, the film. One just begins to feel indifferent towards it beyond a point. Which isn't a good thing, I know. But then, if “it is what it is” kinda casual indifference follows plain dejection, and natural helplessness, then so be it.
May 2017
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Allah Ke Banday
The gangs and their slums are not the same anymore. This would be a minor issue if the picture's setting wasn’t completely the point itself. It unfortunately is. There is no other story. Well. Too bad.
Nov 2010
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Luv Ka The End
This is just an XL sheet movie from a supposed docket that defines youth as some condescending, amorphous term from marketing alone. The filmmakers are desperately trying to look in from the distant outside.
May 2011
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Aashayein
While the filmmakers figured their supposedly perfect setting out, a story didn't follow.
Aug 2010
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Oct 2010
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Motichoor Chaknachoor
Where do you go from there? Practically nowhere. The plot is pretty plain and simple.
Nov 2019
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Feb 2010
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Khelein Hum Jee Jaan Sey
Extreme patience, not patriotism, can sail you through this wikipedia page.
Dec 2010
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Haunted
This is "India's first stereoscopic 3D film", ideally made for audiences that in business lingo are called 'B' and 'C' centres. Haunted evidently wants to be the Wanted for the same crowd.
May 2011
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Mausam
Setting out with a script with better drama, leave aside a plot, could've helped its scale more.
Sep 2011
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Madholal - Keep Walking
...executed amateurishly with poor camera work, jumps in edits, over-acting, that's all.
Aug 2010
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Bheja Fry 2
The sequel's forced the filmmakers to look for a plot on their own. I'm not sure if they did find one eventually. At least I can’t quite find it in the film.
Jun 2011
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Hunterrr
The script on the other hand tries far too hard to be sensitive and serious at the same time. It begins to simultaneously disappoint at all levels.
Mar 2015
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F.A.L.T.U
Frat-boy, crass fun is a legit Hollywood genre. The unlikely issue with Faltu is it isn't faltu enough. It unleashes a lengthy manifesto for educational reforms instead.
Apr 2011
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Chala Mussaddi - Office Office
Television, free chewing gum for the brain, rarely demands half as much as a fully consuming film on the big screen in a dark theatre does.
Aug 2011
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Luka Chuppi
...dumbfounded, fumbling all over the frickin' place - much like his film.
Mar 2019
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Nov 2009
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Yamla Pagla Deewana
Dharmendra is 75. Given no surgical help, he looks it. Sunny Deol is 54. He doesn’t act it. Their audiences moved on a while ago. Evidently, they never did...
Jan 2011
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Saaho
They let loose on an eager audience merely set-pieces in quick succession, and so much random anth-shanth, akar-bakar, that it becomes impossible to saho (bear) Saaho, once you get closer to three hours.
Aug 2019
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Pyaar Impossible
...oscillating between dull conversations, and duller conflict around a stolen computer programme – hardly reaches beyond the premise of its promos.
Jan 2010
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Akira
Bored out of my wits, watching these good fellas with hardly anything significant to do, I could only feel a slight kira (insect) up my bum — desperately itching to go home.
Sep 2016
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Pati Patni Aur Woh
...a whole lot of random desi-lad humour, in what's essentially a naughty-uncle comedy about the wife, and woh (the other woman). Couldn't find anything funny here. Surely this sort of stuff has an audience. Hope the film finds it then.
Dec 2019
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Rakht Charitra 2
Regional cinema has its own poetic grammar. It's just distressing to sense, that’s where Varma belongs now.
Dec 2010
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Rock On 2
The soundtrack hardly lives up to the standards set by the first part. The script seems improvised.
Nov 2016
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Mere Pyare Prime Minister
That you don't feel for anyone in this film (let alone, the issue), with the camera hovering around a bunch of parallel songs/story-lines, aimed to extend a simple short film into a full-length feature, is perhaps worse.
Mar 2019
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Hum Tum Aur Ghost
Playing a girl-magnet, designer-wear, slick hair NRI hero in an artificial, romantic setup, just pales his coolness no end.
Mar 2010
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Damadamm
This film actually has a darn good script, if you could excuse the hero for a bit. Just a bit. But how can you?
Oct 2011