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Gold
...a thoroughly engaging sporting drama with all its necessary ingredients—namely infighting, warring egos, and sharp strategy...
Aug 2018
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Gandhi To Hitler
This stuff's hilarious. If only one didn't have to watch a whole frikin' film for it.
Jul 2011
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Gabbar Is Back
Given the changing desi palette, these Bollywood super-star, super hero stuff really seem so much like regional language potboilers in comparison.
May 2015
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Freaky Ali
...we thought this was going to be a realistic picture about a poor man from a basti taking up a gentleman’s sport, that’s golf. Well, it partly is. About golf? Maybe. Realistic? No.
Sep 2016
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For Real
This is the sort of self-produced, independent, low-budget, boutique film that you go to niche film festivals for. They serve as fair audition tapes for better things to come. Hopefully.
Sep 2010
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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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Ekk Deewana Tha
This oddly picturised, amateurishly edited, mediocre Mani Ratnam stuff probably won’t cut it for anyone.
Feb 2012
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Ek Paheli Leela
If you needed any further proof that she is really a bona fide, solo Bollywood star, it doesn’t get any bigger than this. Does one need to sit through a whole mumbo-jumbo picture to appreciate that? No.
Apr 2015
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Nov 2010
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Apr 2011
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Dum Laga Ke Haisha
Together the characters in the film bring to life, almost to delightful perfection, the beats and rhythms of genuine small town Indian middle class that isn’t poor enough to be on the street or rich enough to afford some very basic luxuries.
Feb 2015
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Dum Laga Ke Haisha
Together the characters in the film bring to life, almost to delightful perfection, the beats and rhythms of genuine small town Indian middle class...
Mar 2015
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Dream Girl
Now should we think about the finesse of filmmaking here (there's very little of it), or gags overstaying their welcome (some of them do), or the political correctness of some of these small-town/mohalla gags... Should we think, about? Don't. Seriously, don't.
Sep 2019
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Double Dhamaal
...these gents -- Arshad Warsi, Riteish Deshmukh, Javed Jaffery (and Ashish. Of course) -- have had to do the kind of things for a living, endure a sort of public embarrassment for entertainment’s sake, they should be entitled to a gallantry award. No less. So should their audience.
Jun 2011
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Do Dooni Chaar
...executed brilliantly by some of the finest actors on screen and a surprisingly self-assured debutant director.
Oct 2010
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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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Dharam Sankat Mein
Popular entertainment, or a lively, mass-oriented film such as this, is perhaps our most potent counter to a frightening intolerance. That fact alone makes this a very important and brave film.
Apr 2015
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Desi Boyz
You figure this formula for the moolah could be a post-2000 film by David Dhawan. It turns out his son's the director. Generations change. So do audiences. Same garbage gets recycled still.
Nov 2011
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Dear Zindagi
... it just appears as if the film's unable to find a point, place a nail there, and just hammer it in. Which was so not the case with Shinde's masterstroke, 'English Vinglish' (2012).
Nov 2016
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De De Pyaar De
The film just stops being about a relationship; let alone romance, or comedy. It's almost like the filmmakers are certain the intended audience won't connect much with such a young-old love, by itself, in a single screen theatre. Well if you think they can't take it, then why make it?
May 2019
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De Dana Dan
Little will make sense, or is meant to. There is simply no recess from this excess.
Nov 2009