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Super 30
A salutary cause and an inspirational story about the triumph of the underdog doesn’t necessarily make an engaging film.
Jul 2019
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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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Sultan
Wish there was more time and complexity given to Aarfa and her relationship with Sultan. You can sense the gloomy, bleak, problematic layers in it but the film refuses plumb the depths of it. Then it wouldn’t have remained a bhai film.
Jul 2016
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Sulemani Keeda
An in-group Versova film that needed more to say hello to the world? Yet another variation of Luck By Chance, albeit from the margins?
Dec 2014
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Sui Dhaaga
Sharat Katariya’s brushstrokes in 'Sui Dhaaga' may have got much more broad than in his previous outing but you still end up caring for his characters
Sep 2018
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Student Of The Year 2
Despite the fresh, young faces at the centre, a staleness looms large over SOTY2.
May 2019
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Street Dancer 3D
The dance here looks like action set-pieces, bodily contortions and jumps and leaps in the air. Similar and repetitive at that, and stretching way too long over 150 minutes.
Jan 2020
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Stree
Between scares, laughs and trying to be feminist, the film does tend to get unwieldy and spreads itself too thin. The three elements play out inconsistently. But on the good side, as in some of the recent Bollywood films, Stree has a quaint sense of place, eccentric characters, a few madcap sequences and some sharply written, consciously irreverent lines to keep one engaged.
Aug 2018
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Stanley Ka Dabba
A delightful yet moving film on the trifle of an idea, but why must a film with children has to always come with a message attached?
May 2011
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Special 26
Fairly gripping, with the proverbial twist in the tale, much like the director's earlier A Wednesday.
Feb 2013
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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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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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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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Sonu Ke Titu Ki Sweety
It was in 2011 that Ranjan first came out with a “male perspective” on the man-woman relationship in a middle class, urban scenario in Pyaar Ka Punchnama. It reached out to many. Would SKTKS now become the Bible for an entire generation of young men? Seems so.
Feb 2018
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Sonchiriya
It’s an intricately woven script which strings many threads and themes together—crisply, economically with hardly a note out of place. The sure-footedness, self-assurance all adding to a deadly impact.
Mar 2019
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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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Sniff
The one complaint I had with Gupte’s previous outing, Stanley Ka Dabba, was that, like so many of our children’s films, it came with a message attached. Sniff is not weighed down by that. It’s the reason why I am happy with it, but many a righteous adult might end up considering it simplistic and slight.
Aug 2017
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Singham
The tone is uniformally over-the-top—loud dialogue and acting, shrill jokes, dazzling colours, kitschy sets and costumes and stylised choreography.
Jul 2011
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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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Oct 2015
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Simran
What’s interesting is that her Praful is never built as a role model. The filmmaker remains non-judgmental about her; the audience doesn’t know what to make of her. I found that strangely liberating: an on-screen woman you can’t pin down or put in a straightjacket; for a change.
Sep 2017
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Simmba
Be it as brutal violators or patronising saviours of women, Simmba shows that it all boils down to the same toxic masculinity which the men behind Simmba have been perpetuating film after film. There is a saying in Hindi: “Sau choohe khake billi haj ko chali (After eating a hundred rats the cat goes on a pilgrimage)”. Need I say more?
Dec 2018
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Shuttlecock Boys
Celebrates the spirit of enterprise but doesn't offer any surprises. It stays more banal than cutting-edge.
Aug 2012
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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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Shreelancer
All of it gets protracted, hallucinatory and pointless, the viewer’s connect with the growth, change and self-realisation in the character remain distant.
Aug 2017
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Jul 2013
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Shivaay
...the film turns out almost three hours long despite just a wisp of a story to tell.
Oct 2016
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Shamitabh
It all ends at the hospital, as most of Balki’s films do. Coming out of the theatre, I couldn’t help but think of his morbid fascination with sickness, disabilities and abnormalities. Sadly, the film feels more manipulative than sensitive. And also extremely boring.
Feb 2015
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Shahid
Portrays the psyche of the Indian Muslim in the changing, increasingly polarised India with warmth and simplicity.
Oct 2013