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Shubh Mangal Saavdhan
The many characters, families and relationships, their quirks and quarrels feel relatable, played as they are by an ensemble of actors who seem to be born to their roles.
Sep 2017
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Gattu
No mawkish melodrama here; its sensitivity and a wry sense of humour bring the film alive. Unhurried and measured.
Jul 2012
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Soundtrack
It's endearing, playful and filled with laughter and banter. A heartwarming tale that makes you want to shed your cynicism and believe in love.
Oct 2011
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Mukkabaaz
A rare sports film which steps away from jingoistic chest thumping to stare hard at the casteist and corrupt face of sports management in the country.
Jan 2018
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Gali Guleiyan
The film is a fine study of deteriorating places, people, relationships, families, neighbourhoods, communities and human minds with the one aerial shot at the end capturing it all economically.
Sep 2018
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Jun 2014
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Titli
Through the film you can feel the claustrophobia of the world that Titli is set in and it's a feeling that lingers on, long after you have left the theatre.
Oct 2015
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English Vinglish
Sometimes, good movies can be made on the trifles of life than on a big idea. Gauri Shinde has made one.
Oct 2012
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Singh Saab The Great
Shows how the Anil Sharma brand of cinema seems so utterly redundant now.
Dec 2013
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Gurgaon
There are twists and turns, hidden skeletons and revelations aplenty to keep the audience guessing but all made to unfold in a restrained way, lending poignancy to the intrigues and deceptions.
Aug 2017
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Panga
Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari directorial is about how love, marriage and children need not come in the way of a sportswoman’s success, but what sets it refreshingly apart is a wonderful sense of humour.
Jan 2020
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Matru Ki Bijlee Ka Mandola
The irreverence, the impertinence, the subversion! Left my head in a delectable whirl.
Jan 2013
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Jul 2012
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Soorma
After all, sports films meant to be electric and rousing. However, it’s this gentle ordinariness and Shaad Ali’s restrained approach that make Soorma appealing.
Jul 2018
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English Vinglish
Sometimes, good movies can be made on the trifles of life than on a big idea. Gauri Shinde has made one.
Oct 2012
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Haraamkhor
A distanced view of a taboo relationship goes off the rails in search of a neat resolution.
Jan 2017
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I Am
Has something that most contemporary, uber-slick Bollywood flicks lack--quietude and calm. It's a world of thoughtful pauses than a furious pace.
Apr 2011
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Bittoo Boss
The movie tries to capture the promiscuity and amorality in our lives, especially in the small towns. However, interesting social observations don’t necessarily a good film make.
Apr 2012
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Dedh Ishqiya
Chaubey’s caper scores with its delectable atmosphere, seeped in culture and music. It’s a world of paan, poetry and protocol, of erudition and affectations. Rarely has crime been served so sodden in nostalgia.
Jan 2014
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Trapped
With him the film takes the audience to the edge of the seat and also makes it face its own weaknesses and resourcefulness in crises.
Mar 2017
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Hamid
..given the recent turn of events it’s the very simplicity, humaneness and a sense of poise that resonates, connects and is profoundly moving.
Mar 2019
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Makkhi
Take the age-old reincarnation theme, add a dash of fantasy and sci-fi, with an implicit moral and you get a winsome film.
Oct 2012
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Jawaani Jaaneman
...is fun but complaisant, reinforces the age old cliches associated with singledom.
Jan 2020
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Vicky Donor
It’s been so long since a movie elicited laughs without cringes. It is unapologetic, unadulterated fun.
Apr 2012
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Miss Lovely
It peels the makeup off the glamour world, shows the ugliness, dirt, slime and debauchery on the periphery, however offensive it may be. It doesn’t aim to please.
Jan 2014
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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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Karwaan
Even as the film makes the audience laugh uproariously it keeps them grounded in its own whimsical way with some sobering, everyday wisdom and bitter-sweet insights into loss, longing and life.
Aug 2018
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Pati Patni Aur Woh
The film starts off quick and fast, drops pace in the middle to again pick up speed later.
Dec 2019