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Housefull 3
Housefull 3’s brighter moments are owed to Akshay Kumar and fleetingly by Jackie Shroff – for the rest it’s all puerile silliness.
Jun 2016
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Turning 30
Why blatantly follow the Sex And The City template right down to the facile, inane voiceover?
Jan 2011
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Thugs Of Hindostan
Tame, dull and listless, the film lacks any distinct personality and attitude of its own.
Nov 2018
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Love Games
...is a C Grade film trying hard to be cool (pitches itself as urban-thriller) making it worse for itself.
Apr 2016
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Knock Out
A ludicrous thriller which makes you laugh at its stupidities, plotholes and implausibilities.
Oct 2010
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Joker
Take Lagaan and Koi Mil Gaya, mix them, garnish with Tees Maar Khan and a handful of loud Priyadarshan comedies and voila!
Sep 2012
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Bang Bang!
Obviously strange to buy the remake rights of a mediocre Hollywood film. More bizarre to fashion an even worse Hindi film out of it.
Oct 2014
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Super Nani
Every once a week comes a movie that makes all the bad ones of the rest of the week seem like Citizen Kane.
Nov 2014
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Tubelight
Unfortunately piety and righteousness are written way too large on Tubelight. We need some inventiveness and chutzpah even when we take the bull by its horns. Afterall, what’s cinematic subversion without any sparkle?
Jun 2017
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Gali Gali Chor Hai
Half-baked and slipshod, looks terribly dated and very loosely edited.
Feb 2012
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Besharam
Remains unbearably unfunny from the first shot to the last—irritates and exasperates rather than bring out a chuckle.
Oct 2013
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Qaidi Band
Not only does Qaidi Band stay voluntarily far from scratching the surface of the issue but is unable to be a compelling watch either. For a real, troubling issue the solution offered is an unconvincing fairytale one.
Aug 2017
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Baaghi 3
There is a phrase in Hindi: dimaag ka dahi, the curdling of brain. That’s what the film does to your mind, leaves you all woolly-headed.
Mar 2020
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Ready
There are films that're so bad they turn out to be quite good—all for poking fun at. But this one is impossibly bad.
Jun 2011
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Parched
The film is an unconvincing indictment of patriarchy that feels staged; its parts don’t quite add up to a compelling whole.
Sep 2016
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Housefull 4
...hurtles south with such a clarity of purpose and desperate urgency that you can review it with just “eye roll” gifs than go hunting for suitable words.
Oct 2019
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Sep 2017
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Jhootha Kahin Ka
...Kang can’t stop the humour turning loud and crass with double entendre slipping in, specially when it comes to women. It’s not just the sexist jokes, here the women are rendered deliberately vapid and inconsequential...
Jul 2019
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Khatta Meetha
Ample doses of over-the-top buffoonery and liberal sprinkling of double entendre. One of the most cringe-worthy films from Priyadarshan...
Aug 2010
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Bhaiaji Superhittt
Bhaiaji Superhit also tells the audience to be wary of incorrectly spelt titles that are a camouflage for utterly exasperating, excruciatingly boring films.
Nov 2018
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Arjun Patiala
...feels like a Punjabi film masquerading as a Bollywood one. The humour is deliberately rough and rustic and the filmmaking clunky.
Jul 2019
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Murder 2
Sex, skin and gore: unfortunately, all it eventually adds up to is quite a big bore.
Jul 2011
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Jackpot
The most unbearable film of 2013. Utterly boring, inane, kiddish tale about a con job gone awry.
Dec 2013