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Patiala House
It's all good, this Patiala peg. Just chug de phatte! We're all about Bollywood and cricket 'n' all, innit?
Feb 2011
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Utt Pataang
You’d imagine someone read this script and thought the supposed page-turner would make for another low-budget comic hit. They didn’t bother to apply any cinema at all.
Feb 2011
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Yeh Saali Zindagi
You leave for home with an exhilarating ride, still reeling in your head -- though not quite the heart.
Feb 2011
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Dil Toh Baccha Hai Ji
The stuff seems neither deliciously bad for its inspired lunacy, nor delightfully good for its sensible humour. The indifference truly annoys you by the end of it.
Jan 2011
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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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No One Killed Jessica
The narrative is gripping, the music score (Amit Trivedi) uplifting, the screenplay tight enough to allow for very few slippages (only towards the end).
Jan 2011
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Ada: A Way Of Life
Colour tones change with every scene. Background score changes genres. Dubbing is never in sync; editing, abrupt.
Jan 2011
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Isi Life Mein
'Cool' is an oft abused, dangerous word. 'Wannabe' usually follows it like a shadow. You have to be careful. The makers of this movie evidently aren't.
Dec 2010
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Tees Maar Khan
...never-ending hit and mess. It's one thing to repeatedly make 'nudge nudge wink wink' sort of ironic nod to films or 'filmies'. It's quite another to know nothing else.
Dec 2010
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Toonpur Ka Superrhero
The superstar wants to impress his kids. The film wants to impress yours. The human hero fights the cartoon villain as he moves up levels in a video game. It’s all pretty lame.The connect is somewhere lost.
Dec 2010
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Mirch
The four short films, fable-like, with fine actors, eventually turn out to be utterly simple and instantly amusing.
Dec 2010
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No Problem
Actors alone suposedly carry audiences into theatres. A good number of them have been suitably recruited. The proposal is well drawn. Promise of crores have already been made. Why bother making a movie as well, telling a funny story? Anything will do.
Dec 2010
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Band Baaja Baaraat
There's no proverbial chemistry between the leading couple, and that makes for a film of its own. Not this one.
Dec 2010
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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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Khelein Hum Jee Jaan Sey
Extreme patience, not patriotism, can sail you through this wikipedia page.
Dec 2010
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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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Break Ke Baad
...the film is subversive enough and remains endearingly exciting for most parts.
Nov 2010
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Guzaarish
You get overwhelmed at first; leave slightly under-whelmed, eventually. That's the story of this otherwise fine film.
Nov 2010
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Nov 2010
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Golmaal 3
Golmaal 2 (second-rate stuff) apparently raked in big bucks. Such success can boost anyone's over-confidence. Which explains this turd part.
Nov 2010
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Action Replayy
Kumar, the hardest working Indian film star (averaging four films a year) remains the only thing to look out for...
Nov 2010
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Rakht Charitra – I
Doesn't hurt, if you can take this much of it in one go. There's another installment on its way, if you’re bloodthirsty still. Huh!
Oct 2010
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Oct 2010
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Aakrosh
This is the sort of film that’s sold under prestigious tags of "hard-hitting" and "issue-based". They’re a heavy assault on your senses all right.
Oct 2010