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Chatur Singh Two Star
...Bollywood's indescribably banal take on the comic Inspector Clouseau played by Peter Sellers in Blake Edwards' Pink Panther series.
Aug 2011
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Tum Bin 2
From the beginning to the sudden twist towards the end and then on to a protracted climax, the film has a "seen that many a times" feel.
Nov 2016
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Aladin
Sandwiched in between is a boring love story of the shy Aladin (Ritesh), and Jasmine (Jacqueline, who fills in well as the smiling wallpaper). Aladin, like Drona and Love Story 2039, is ambition gone awry.
Nov 2009
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Chaalis Chauraasi
An exasperatingly extended introduction to utterly inane and colourless characters.
Jan 2012
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Sanam Teri Kasam
Radhika Rao and Vinay Sapru spin a modern, urban fairytale, albeit a gloomy, miserable one, which, in the name of being a woman-centric film, has one of the most feeble, helpless heroines seen in recent Hindi cinema...
Feb 2016
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The Legend of Michael Mishra
Clearly there’s a lot that slips between the ambition and intent and the absolutely amateurish execution of it on screen.
Aug 2016
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I Hate Luv Storys
It is full of endless chatter but the dialogue is inane and boring. So things get too stretched out and long-drawn.
Jul 2010
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Bhoomi
Sanjay Dutt hasn’t lost his acting chops yet, rather seems to be maturing well. But why did he have to pick up a film this regressive for a return?
Sep 2017
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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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Pihu
Deliberately designed, repetitive, predictable and emotionally manipulative, Pihu is cinema at its most duplicitous.
Nov 2018
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Jai Mummy Di
We just keep going round and round in a tiring, boring, humourless circle than things leaping forward with a sense of fun and urgency.
Jan 2020
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Missing On A Weekend
...is amateurishly staged and feels too long for its 113 odd minutes. A 30-minute long Crime Patrol episode on TV would have delivered something infinitely more watchable.
Aug 2016
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Jan 2016
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Great Grand Masti
Crudity, vulgarity, titillation, infantility is all one expected but also hoped against hope for it to deliver a few risqué laughs. No such luck. Banal and boring is all you get.
Jul 2016
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Sunshine Music Tours and Travels
Shailendra Singh of Percept that organises Sunburn has just used the film as an excuse for brand promotion, stringing the fest footage with an apology of a story and a non existent script.
Sep 2016
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Kuldip Patwal
If a half-baked script, sketchy situations and vague characters were not enough, the film is also marked by clutter and disarray in the telling.
Feb 2018
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Sorry Daddy
There’s sheer randomness to the narrative, in fact the film is nothing more than a series of arbitrary scenes strung together.
Dec 2015
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The Blueberry Hunt
This could have been a cracker of a film to take the debate forward. But it prefers to remain hazy and tepid in a pointless world of its own.
Apr 2016
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Tera Intezaar
...is most consistent when it comes to the inherent messiness-it’s tacky in every which way, from the first frame to the last. The tawdriness reflects in every single department of filmmaking.
Dec 2017
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One Day
...everyone, from the actors to the audience, is left either direly bored or unintentionally amused.
Jul 2019
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Raaz Reboot
Nothing changes in the fourth of the Raaz franchisee. If at all the chills and thrills seem to run dangerously out of steam and some scenes turn out unintentionally funny.
Sep 2016
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Son Of Sardaar
A watch, if loud, mindless gags work for you. But how many more such comedies can we take?
Nov 2012
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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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Jan 2016