An archive of Hindi movie reviews and ratings from 2010 to 2020.

critic

Meena Iyer

Highest rating for
Lowest rating for
Number of reviews
181
Average rating
61

Order by

Date

Title

Rating

  • Bhoomi

    ...every cloud has a silver living; Bhoomi has Sanjay Dutt. Returning to the marquee after his incarceration, the actor wears the lines of his face with confidence.

    59

    Sep 2017
  • Karwaan

    Actually, the thing with Karwaan is, it doesn't know what it wants to be. Akarsh is confused between making a light, breezy comedy and a dark, soul-searching film; so it oscillates between a fun-ride and a dark-drag, leaving you with no real emotion.

    59

    Aug 2018
  • Notebook

    Honestly, there is nothing wrong with this film. You only wish it hadn’t been so antiseptic.

    59

    Mar 2019
  • Manto

    ...while it evokes strong emotions for the genius’ idiosyncrasies, it fails to keep the audience in its grip throughout. There’s a mundane element that keeps popping up from time to time.

    59

    Sep 2018
  • Tubelight

    The film that propagates the values of family, faith and patriotism doesn’t manage to take a complete leap of faith because somewhere someone couldn't pull this one off convincingly. In fact, everything is so cloyingly sweet that you start feeling you’ve strolled into a sermon rather than a Salman movie.

    59

    Jun 2017
  • Junglee

    Atul Kulkarni, who shows up as the antagonist, is superb. However, everything else around here is amateurish.

    59

    Mar 2019
  • Pataakha

    You laugh at the parallels drawn between the two sisters and India’s love-hate relationship with Pakistan. All the profundity about not being able to choose your relatives and neighbours works. But even that metaphor doesn’t allow you to ‘enjoy’ the violent nature of this destructive relationship.

    59

    Sep 2018
  • No Fathers In Kashmir

    The film presents a ‘controversial’ viewpoint on the Kashmir issue. Apart from this, the two youngsters — Zara and Shivam — are lovely. Give them a chance.

    59

    Apr 2019
  • Zanjeer

    ...this film should be judged as a stand-alone offering because attempts to compare the two versions will find the current one falling short, especially in the dialogue and music departments.

    59

    Sep 2013
  • Omerta

    Interspersing news footage — from the ’90s until the recent Mumbai 26/11 attacks — with a glamourised version of Omar’s life, it does manage to provide an overview of a contemporary terror hero.

    59

    May 2018
  • Mubarakan

    ...you just have to go through this garrulous, laugh-out-loud affair with the usual patience and perhaps even some perseverance that you usually reserve for Bollywood comedies such as this one.

    59

    Jul 2017
  • Ittefaq

    Instead of the having the edge-of-the-seat quality that brain twisters ideally should, this one is a tiresome cat-and-mouse chase.

    59

    Nov 2017
  • Jab Harry Met Sejal

    The script is wafer-thin and it’s been done to death by none other than Imtiaz Ali in each of his earlier films—be it Jab We Met, Cocktail or the recent Tamasha. It’s the routine girl is engaged elsewhere story but she discovers half-way through the film that she is actually attracted to someone else.

    59

    Aug 2017