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Dil Juunglee
A sincerely superficial film. Makes no attempt at making character motivations believable. A case of “believe it or leave it”. “Leave it”, it is then.
Mar 2018
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Oct 2013
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Shaandaar
...is the Anees Bazmee-fication of Dharma-ised version of the Phantom-isation of Vikas Bahl's Disney tale. Oh dear, how do I fit Barjatya in that sentence now?
Oct 2015
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Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani
A rom-com that is half-baked comedy and a quarter-baked romance.
Nov 2009
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Chase
Run away. And run away fast. You don’t want to watch a bunch of non-actors in a shabbily edited thriller, even if the story is not-bad.
Apr 2010
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Kucch Luv Jaisaa
...is almost as boring as a woman-going-through-mid-life-crisis' life.
May 2011
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Fukrey Returns
...had a chance to engage and entertain had it not been for its episodic, often nauseating, slapsticky humour.
Dec 2017
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Shootout At Wadala
...seems to be the kind of film that will be enjoyed by people who like this mix of moderately gory action, toilet humor and aggressive romance.
May 2013
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Zanjeer
...I refuse to believe that the makers of this remake of Zanjeer didn't know they were taking away from an already not-so-great film.
Sep 2013
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Bhoot – Part One
I am as disappointed to report as I am glad that I didn’t get scared once through the two hours.
Feb 2020
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Lahore
Same old need for sisterhood between two countries which have been at war for what, 6 decades now? Of course, we need truce but not sure if we need a movie on the issue with the backdrop of a sport that seems to mean more war than anything else.
Mar 2010
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Sep 2017
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Tum Mile
Love, calamity, death all taken way too casually in a drab, still-life sort-of a way.
Nov 2009
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Baar Baar Dekho
A long-winded way of saying something quite simple, really. The buildup and guesswork all seem like they want to lead you up to something very profound, but nada.
Sep 2016
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Romeo Akbar Walter
A thriller that doesn’t get you anywhere close to the edge of the seat. Maybe because the hero gets stuff done too easily or perhaps the casting doesn’t allow you to think he could lose. This despite a decent attempt at twists.
Apr 2019
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Desi Boyz
...is exactly what you'd expect. Awful acting by good-looking people who look really good. A 'whatever' story with a few good hearty laughs.
Nov 2011
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Department
Vague characters can be interesting but the experimentation with the camera is too distracting for anything else to be processed satisfactorily.
May 2012
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Rush
...a crime drama that you've to struggle to keep awake through mainly because of a sluggish first half.
Oct 2012
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Tamanchey
An attempt at being imaginative at a regular love story gone too long and dry.
Oct 2014
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Phantom
There are way too many ways to trash Phantom. But, I'll go with just silly. Plain silly.
Aug 2015
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Force 2
As inane as an action film can get. It's fight to have a relevant story is futile because it is nothing more than the usual sequences of chase sequences.
Nov 2016
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Crook
When one proudly believes in the goodness of being bad, there's little left to say. The win-win situation - They were good both when the film started well and also when it ended ridiculously bad
Oct 2010
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Dum Maaro Dum
...makes a crime thriller as disinteresting as it could be. The lines are limp and the situations are far from creative. The plot is strung together with a series of events that have no flow.
Apr 2011
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Gali Gali Chor Hai
A loud and tacky story with more distractions than the story itself makes a decent idea, with a common man behaving like a common man, ineffective.
Feb 2012
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Mumbai Mirror
Yet another crime drama about the goon-police nexus in the Mumbai underworld. Yawn.
Jan 2013
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Kurbaan
Predictable to the minutest detail and utterly-butterly s..l..o..w. You sure have better ways to induce yawns now, don't you?
Nov 2009
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Agent Vinod
An almost 3-hour long, slick chase sequence that gets exasperating by the end.
Mar 2012
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Bullett Raja
Lots of "dialogue", earthy style and of course bullets. Unfortunately, it also means repetitive, predictable, and tiring.
Nov 2013
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Shaadi Ke Side Effects
A shallow, even if truthful for some couples, take on marriage. Past the one-liners in the trailer, Shaadi Ke Side Effects is more-or-less stuck in a rut.
Feb 2014