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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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Jalpari
Warm and empathetic: an engaging story which sustains the viewer’s, especially children’s, interest.
Sep 2012
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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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Luv Shuv Tey Chicken Khurana
An unsurprising story, but told with freshness, fun and loads of warmth.
Nov 2012
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Jolly LLB 2
What Jolly LLB 2 essentially shows is how the marriage of opposites—the mainstream dramatic tropes and a realistic tapestry—can be the formula to go for, for Bollywood.
Feb 2017
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Sep 2015
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Mukti Bhawan
It’s all about death yet a steady strain of humour makes the film whimsical than morbid. Like life there is no clear compartmentalisation between pleasure and pain, happiness and grief, celebration and mourning.
Apr 2017
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Moh Maya Money
...starts off as unsteadily as it ends but comes with a lot in the middle to chew on.
Nov 2016
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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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Udaan
It’s an outstanding criss-cross of relationships between three men about the house.
Jul 2010
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Kai Po Che!
...manages to find its own distinct voice beyond these general simplifications. Primarily, because it builds well on the relationship of its three lead characters.
Mar 2013
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Talvar
It’s the solid writing, sharp dialogue and the spot-on performances which shine along.
Oct 2015
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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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That Girl in Yellow Boots
Anurag Kashyap narrates it slowly, bit by bit, with a lingering calm and control that makes the film unsettling and affecting.
Sep 2011
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Befikre
What the film does try is to remain unpredictable and breezy in its expression of it. It tries to hold back from wallowing in the traditional, even as it posits the time-honoured and conventional as a solution.
Dec 2016
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Tiger Zinda Hai
I think I just found my guilty pleasure film of 2017; right at the end of the year.
Dec 2017
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Chhapaak
It’s this sparseness, minimalism and austerity in the telling and an essential quietude that lend Chhapaak an emotional force of its own though some may end up finding it measured to a fault.
Jan 2020
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Feb 2011
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Kahaani
The spoon-feeding takes the intrigue away. I come away feeling cheated and look back at the whole construct with reservations.
Mar 2012
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Shahid
Portrays the psyche of the Indian Muslim in the changing, increasingly polarised India with warmth and simplicity.
Oct 2013
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Neerja
...the larger emotional swell and sentiment of the film makes one overlook things.
Feb 2016
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Happy Bhag Jayegi
...there are gaping plot-holes and slapdash contrivances galore but some genuine fun and many smart lines to balance things in favour of this Indo-Pak interaction of a different kind.
Aug 2016
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Feb 2017
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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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M.S. Dhoni
It would have been interesting to see Dhoni’s engagement with what it has become over the years—a world of big money and bigger misdemeanours. However, the film lets him remain in an idealistic bubble.
Sep 2016
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Talaash
A well dressed film but makes one wonder if it would have been better off as a study in sorrow.
Dec 2012
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May 2015