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Finding Fanny
If the characters seem to come straight out of Mario Miranda cartoons, the telling seems to have taken a page out of Amelie...
Sep 2014
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Fatso
Leaves you curiously unmoved and strangely untouched. It has the feel of a TV drama, not a big screen feature.
May 2012
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Fanney Khan
Despite the presence of a heavy duty cast, the film is just not able to fly. So bogged down does it get with its predictable arc and overt sense of righteousness that it ends up flat and deadening; silly rather than scintillating.
Aug 2018
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Fan
...SRK couldn’t have found a better vehicle than Fan, both as an actor and as a celebration of the highs and the lows of his own stardom.
Apr 2016
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Apr 2011
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English Vinglish
Sometimes, good movies can be made on the trifles of life than on a big idea. Gauri Shinde has made one.
Oct 2012
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English Vinglish
Sometimes, good movies can be made on the trifles of life than on a big idea. Gauri Shinde has made one.
Oct 2012
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Ek Villain
A clumsy mess of a narrative loop—stories within stories and backstories within backstories, all leading nowhere.
Jul 2014
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Ek Tha Tiger
One confused film, but With Salman about, nothing seems to matter. So the Bhai tornado rolleth on.
Aug 2012
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Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga
...might be bringing a “new story” to Bollywood but plays out too flat, lightweight and facile to be of any consequence. Tell us another love story, please.
Feb 2019
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Dum Laga Ke Haisha
...is a beautiful snapshot of this world, lost and yet not quite; it’s a piece of nostalgia wrapped up in the actual.
Mar 2015
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Drishyam
It’s the cat ’n mouse games, twist in the tale and the final revelation that are the stuff of collective audience sighs. That too only if you are watching it for the first time.
Aug 2015
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Drishyam
The trademark, heavy-lidded intensity of Ajay’s Vijay is too casual and throwaway instead of powerful and impassioned.
Aug 2015
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Dobaara
What you get in the process is very few chills and thrills but a lot of convoluted, half baked, jargon-ridden arguments that don’t add up to anything but boredom.
Jun 2017
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Do Dooni Chaar
...a self-assured directorial debut, a fine slice of Delhi life, despite being marred by a muddled ending.
Oct 2010
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Dishoom
The many chinks in Dishoom’s armour notwithstanding, on this prolonged, dismal monsoon day the film’s infectious cheer seems just what the weather ordered. Whether it lasts beyond the season will be another story.
Jul 2016
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Dilwale
The deliberate attempt to repackage and sell the Kajol-SRK romance of yore backfires, seeming like a pale shadow of the magic there once was.
Dec 2015
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Dil Juunglee
...is not a film; it’s a bunch of the most vapid characters conceivable, hanging loose, doing some monkey tricks and playing “Audience audience in the hall, who is the most irritating of us all”.
Mar 2018
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Dil Dhadakne Do
The instant connect of a Honeymoon Travels Private Limited, however, goes amiss.
Jun 2015
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Dil Dhadakne Do
Zoya makes it pretty clear that her heart beats for women and for overhauling gender roles and expectations.
Jun 2015
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Dhoom 3
Street food gone hopelessly bland, a papdi chaat that tastes more like cold porridge.
Dec 2013
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Dhanak
...one stayed invested and smiled along only because of the adorable actors with Bollywood references adding to the cute appeal. But it needed a lot else.
Jun 2016
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Detective Byomkesh Bakshy!
Dibakar tries to pack in too much even in terms of cinematic references—from classic Hollywood to noir, to Ritchie and Tarantino and Chinese action flicks. The constant shift in tonality jars, especially in the over-the-top melodrama of a climax.
Apr 2015
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Delhi Belly
It could get very discomfiting and disconcerting for some, but for this reviewer it was a merry lark of a film, the most entertaining in 2011 thus far.
Jul 2011
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Dedh Ishqiya
Chaubey’s caper scores with its delectable atmosphere, seeped in culture and music. It’s a world of paan, poetry and protocol, of erudition and affectations. Rarely has crime been served so sodden in nostalgia.
Jan 2014
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Dear Zindagi
At one level then film feels like a mass therapy session in which the audience could find itself getting co-opted and put on the couch. The reaction to it then would be dependant on an individual’s own life experiences.
Nov 2016
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Dear Dad
...Arvind Swamy’s pleasing presence and earnest effort notwithstanding. Whatever is there to the plot is too shallow to keep it afloat for even 90 odd minutes.
May 2016
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David
Bejoy Nambiar’s film could have been an intriguing exploration of the vagaries of fate and fortune. But, unfortunately, as with most films released this week, it falls short of its inherent possibilities.
Feb 2013
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Dangal
Even as the film touches a chord, it makes one compare and contrast it with other Indian sports films, and not glowingly at that.
Dec 2016
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Damadamm
Utterly boring and confused, randomly shifting gears from the comic to the melodramatic. Go for this only if you want to be rocked to sleep.
Oct 2011