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Prakash Electronic
Things happen rather randomly on screen—the twists, turns, misunderstandings and reconciliations—and somehow something like a film gets cobbled together.
Jan 2017
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Halkaa
The film’s call against open defecation is gratuitous and in trying to portray class divides ends up widening it.
Sep 2018
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May 2019
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Game
...one of the most predictable, stupid thrillers, strewn with absurd red herrings and idiotic clues.
Apr 2011
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Tamanchey
Everything about it is lacklustre—right from the script, direction and acting.
Oct 2014
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Teraa Surroor
...no compelling cinema here, just an out and out guilty pleasure that requires a huge suspension of disbelief to go with the flow.
Mar 2016
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Jul 2011
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Pagalpanti
...this could have become a fairly decent satire. But that’s like asking for the moon and wishing Anees Bazmee was Kundan Shah.
Nov 2019
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Jab Harry Met Sejal
...marks a thumping return to love at its most banal, hackneyed and exasperating. There is not much in the silly situations and trite conversations to get you invested or interested in the lovers.
Aug 2017
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Vodka Diaries
In an effort to be cool and quirky the film sinks into the shabby and the amateurish. The twists and turns of the plot are totally random, thrown in for the heck of it.
Jan 2018
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Jun 2013
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Jul 2014
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Commando 3
Here’s yet another shamefully opportunistic film that plays on the bad Muslim-good Muslim divide.
Nov 2019
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No Problem
...the characters, plot, gags, jokes, dialogues, just about nothing makes you smile, leave alone laugh. Besides, some significant scenes get uncomfortably racist and downright sexist.
Dec 2010
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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
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It's a Wonderful Afterlife
It’s anything but funny. There are hardly a couple of lines that bring the smile on.
May 2010
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We Are Family
The regressive, "you can't be a good woman unless you are a good mom" ideology is difficult to buy.
Sep 2010
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Kyaa Super Kool Hain Hum
A dull and dreary borefest rather than the laugh-a-minute sex comedy it aims to be.
Aug 2012
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Dec 2015
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Hanuman Da Damdaar
...is disappointing in not setting new standards for children’s entertainment.
Jun 2017
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Coffee With D
Sending up the media? Spoofing the underworld? Whatever it is that the filmmaker wants to do, it just doesn’t spark any interest in the viewer.
Jan 2017
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Kites
A love story works if it can make the audience feel for the lovers. In Kites there is not an ounce of romance or passion. What is it that draws the two together? Where’s the pull, the tug? And what is it (family, caste, religion or their own inner demons) that keeps them apart? Nothing about the relationship is compelling enough.
May 2010
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Feb 2013
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Baar Baar Dekho
There are no standout performances, no scenes that can pack in an emotional wallop and the conversational dialogue turns banal beyond a point.
Sep 2016
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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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Kabir Singh
Entitled, toxic hero and a heroine without any agency whatsoever. What’s new?
Jun 2019
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Freaky Ali
...is predictable to the core replete with every cliché of a typical sports film that you can possibly think of and, is marked by old fashioned story-telling and over the top, slapstick humour.
Sep 2016
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Haseena Parkar
Don’t go looking for a Shabana Azmi-like assured turn (in Godmother) from Kapoor. She is unable to rise above her age, despite trying to emote way too earnestly in some scenes.
Sep 2017
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Nanu Ki Jaanu
To be fair, silliness, if done with aplomb, can be sublime fun at times. Nanu Ki Jaanu is none of it, only laughable.
Apr 2018