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B.A. Pass
Starts off rather well, but as the film progresses the treatment gets too ham-fisted.
Aug 2013
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Azhar
Such is the eagerness to justify him that Tony D’Souza makes it seem as though the whole bad world is out to get him.
May 2016
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Article 15
Sinha lays the onus of the societal transformation on the privileged. They have to alter the lopsided canvas.
Jun 2019
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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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Andhadhun
Missing the beginning, end and anything in the middle would then severely imperil what could be the most fun you’d have at the movies.
Oct 2018
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Anaarkali Of Aarah
A unique, well observed, raunchy musical that reiterates that no means no.
Mar 2017
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Feb 2016
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Albert Pinto Ko Gussa Kyun Aaata Hai?
The narrative meanders pointlessly, as a bizarre background score plays on noisily and the climax feels just as needlessly knotty. The film would have actually been better titled as Albert Pinto Ki Ajeeb Dastaan.
Apr 2019
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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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Ajji
The only thing new here then is turning an arthritic grandmom into the avenging angel. Ajji is no more than Mom and Maatr at their most excessive; it just locates the same rape narrative at the other end of the social spectrum.
Nov 2017
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Oct 2012
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Aiyaary
What could have been an engaging tale of army corruption ends up a convoluted film with confusing narrative devices.
Feb 2018
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Airlift
...would have been a better film without this nationalistic bluster but has a bigger potential at the box office now with the Republic Day just round the corner.
Jan 2016
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Agent Vinod
There is an incredible urge to run a fine comb through Agent Vinod, to straighten the several strands, trajectories, characters, locations that end up as one big clutter in the mind’s eye.
Apr 2012
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Ae Dil Hai Mushkil
...is the latest in the brand of cinema that isn’t so much as plot driven as it is focused on characters, relationships and interactions.
Oct 2016
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Nov 2010
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Action Jackson
Cartoonish characters, mindless comedy...a blatantly chauvinistic wannabe blockbuster.
Dec 2014
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ABCD - Any Body Can Dance - 2
A string of spectacular dance set-pieces linked together by random scenes.
Jun 2015
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Aashayein
Fails to measure up to what it is inspired from — the most famous 'death' film, Anand.
Sep 2010
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Aarakshan
Mainstream cinema has a way of simplifying the most complex of issues, but in that simplicity, it also manages to touch a chord, reach out and even initiate debate. Prakash Jha fails to do any of that with Aarakshan.
Aug 2011
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Ankhon Dekhi
...a film that moves, provokes, sets you thinking and questioning but doesn’t provide you any easy answers. But it does take you on an enriching journey within if you allow yourself to flow with its current.
Mar 2014
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A Flying Jatt
A clunky script, comic book flat characters and a wafer-thin plot are propped up by needless song-n-dance routines, juvenile SFX and innumerable fights and confrontations.
Aug 2016
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404
The movie grips you but gets plodding in the middle with its convoluted yet simplistic discussions.
May 2011
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3 Storeys
Intrigue, trickery, unpredictability and a sting in the tail. Yet this compendium of stories refuses to fly.
Mar 2018
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3 Idiots
...the film leaves you with a smile and warmth that last long after the film is over.
Dec 2009
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102 Not Out
Based on a Gujarati play of the same name, Umesh Shukla’s film is unable to leave its inherent theatricality behind. It gets unchanging in terms of the give and take between the duo and leaves the viewers static too. It stirs nothing within, leaving you unmoved.
May 2018