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Lafangey Parindey
Production design is smart, dialogues clever and cinematography sparkling, but the story never takes off and characters never connect.
Aug 2010
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Jan 2011
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No Problem
...is full of problems, without any semblance of a story or script or direction, but that would be stating the obvious.
Dec 2010
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Right Yaaa Wrong
...a fairly interesting story, except that the average direction and clumsy casting quite lets it down.
Mar 2010
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We Are Family
...has a weepy, forced, set-like air about it, with poorly translated dialogue and pre-packaged situations.
Sep 2010
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Utt Pataang
...an unfortunate title for a film that ends up being just that, a lot of half-baked gibberish and faltu ka utt pataang.
Feb 2011
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Aao Wish Karein
...it’s the dull screenplay once again. Even though it is fully inspired by Big, Aao Wish Karein manages to be overstretched and boring.
Nov 2009
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Khatta Meetha
It is stuffed with gags, set-ups and stock characters, in a silly, stunted, scattered script which is stitched up rather poorly. The film desperately tries to be funny but just ends up being very tedious.
Jul 2010
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Toh Baat Pakki
...just leaves us, the audience, forever expected to be the suckers. So the film can be safely avoided, yeh baat toh pakki hai.
Feb 2010
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Tees Maar Khan
...is full of just stupid incidents zanily stitched up with elaborate songs in between.
Dec 2010
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De Dana Dan
...extra loud and grating experience, with everyone trying a bit too hard at that same mish mash of sex, money marriage comedy garnished with boringly familiar ingredients.
Nov 2009
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May 2010
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Hum Tum Aur Ghost
An actor is only as good as his director is an old adage, while a movie is only as entertaining as its story. Both these maxims are proved fully true in Hum, Tum aur Ghost...
Mar 2010
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Yeh Faasley
...never comes together as a film. None of the characters or their stories really grip you, the music is forced and mediocre, while most of the proceedings look staged, even as the fuzzy story loops around itself.
Mar 2011
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Veer
...doesn’t have is any kind of a script or a director, forget about any other related sense or sensibility. The film is a brutal assault on all your senses...
Jan 2010
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Aladin
Aladin is a good example of how to take a beautiful fairy tale, and proceed to fairly destroy it.
Nov 2009
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Jaane Kahan Se Aayi Hai
...a very silly film, stuffed with PJs as in poor, painful, pre-hormonal, pseudo, puerile jokes. The very stupid premise of the film makes you grimace, and then the fun never ever follows.
Apr 2010
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Jul 2010
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Paathshaala
...a film which deals with the rampant commercialisation of education, clearly a good subject, except that it is poorly written and directed, without imagination or flair.
Apr 2010
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Hostel
...gets a very flat, grim, unidimensional treatment from the director, which ends up making the story more morbidly filmy than dramatically real.
Jan 2011
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Jhootha Hi Sahi
...a too clever by half attempt at telling a cool, nerdy story which falls flat on its face. The clumsy film is stuffed with cardboard characters, silly set ups with corny insider jokes and a sagging story line which is stretched right from the word go.
Oct 2010
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Feb 2010
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Nov 2010
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Satrangee Parachute
...appears like a set-up story with a goody two shoes message at the end.
Feb 2011
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Aashayein
...has to be one of the most depressing, incoherent films since a long sadiyan.
Aug 2010
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Hello Zindagi
...a terrible film, not worthy of anyone’s time or money. The storytelling is inconsistent and ludicrous, the performances range from ordinary to bad, while any sort of direction is painfully missing.
Mar 2010
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Na Ghar Ke Na Ghaat Ke
A mix between a bad Doordarshan serial and a 1980s B-grade film...
Mar 2010
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Madholal - Keep Walking
...a starched attempt at filmmaking, which ends up being tedious and simplistic, like a boring moral science lecture.
Aug 2010