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Aiyaary
...you can't help but come up with conspiracy theories on how the filmmakers could've so horribly lost the plot.
Feb 2018
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Singham
Devgn walks to beats similar to Salman's Dabanng. He beats the crap out of ruffians outside a village theatre. He restores his woman's honour. Besotted, she chases him. Audiences think even more highly of the hero. He beats the crap some more.
Jul 2011
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Raavan
This is that severely unexpected self-indulgence in a career of close to three decades, which digs out nothing but his own cinematic cliches.
Jun 2010
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Banjo
...for a film that looks good, but has such little material to justify its screen time — besides a couple of decent songs alone.
Sep 2016
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Why Cheat India
...it eventually starts descending to such levels of random, thoughtless spinning of the yarn that by the end of it you're not even too sure it's the same film that you had started with in the first place.
Jan 2019
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Prince
Quite obviously, moneybag-bizman Mr Taurani knows something about his audiences that we don’t!
Apr 2010
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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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Bombay Velvet
This over-written, over-produced film—suffering from what can only be called the ‘curse of the masterpiece’ or a ‘magnum opus complex’—spins around in so many circles at the same time, your mind boggles at the thought of what could be the point of it all.
May 2015
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Krantiveer
Mental exhaustion is too minor a price to pay for this cutesy honesty. Come on, give it a shot. I dare you.
Jun 2010
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Chalo Dilli
It's just banal, belaboured, contrived concoction that's just not funny; certainly not fun.
Apr 2011
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Mere Brother Ki Dulhan
...unnecessarily complicated, tiring, lame mess the hero finds himself in, merely to serve the purpose of an over-imagined plot.
Sep 2011
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Hide & Seek
You couldn’t care less for these characters to bother with their bumbling back-story; never mind that the nuggets in the film itself don’t eventually add up.
Mar 2010
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Lafangey Parindey
Such scatter-brained, mish-mash of a movie is only possible when the makers' eyeballs are trained at some sucker or the other the cinema's intended for, and not the soul of even a semblance of a script.
Aug 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
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Na Ghar Ke Na Ghaat Ke
Neither a probing satire nor a roaring laugh, neither fish nor fowl...
Mar 2010
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Apartment
Accept soft-core pornography in Indian films, and you’ll get rid of poor apologies such as these that have to force in plots, since they can’t just make a semi-porn pic instead.
Apr 2010
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Monica
You can tell, this is a B movie that was suddenly allowed better budgets later in its making.
Mar 2011
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I Am Singh
The film's audience, apparently Americans, as you know, think Osama bin Laden was Sikh. They need serious education. The characters knock some sense into their heads, read out page after page from Wikipedia, in Hindi and English, on philosophy, history, teachings and scriptures of Sikhism.
Dec 2011
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Nov 2019
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Feb 2010
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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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Coolie No.1
None of this campy comedy from the times of Campa Cola is done with any sense of irony. Making everything else that follows seem not so much as an insult to the audience's intelligence, as a movie that ignores your intellect altogether.
Dec 2020
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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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Tell Me O Kkhuda
Extreme love for the progeny produces corruption in several societies. It produces some terribly inspired entertainment in India.
Oct 2011
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Nanu Ki Jaanu
Sad. Very sad-chiefly for the super-fine, and now ironically an under-rated actor, at the centre of it all.
Apr 2018