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Baaghi 2
Nothing matters other than Tiger Shroff in a film that bores as well as amuses with its inanity.
Mar 2018
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Hichki
...the film doesn’t go past the facile commentary; a very deliberate righteousness and piety, ingrained in the narrative, detract rather than reinforce the significant issue of inclusion.
Mar 2018
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Raid
In spite of these right noises things still don’t turn out rousing enough on screen. A messy climax and clumsy reveal further seal the deal.
Mar 2018
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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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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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Pari
The oppressive fear built at the start collapses when the filmmaker explains it all.
Mar 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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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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Feb 2018
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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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Padmaavat
...may well be Bhansali’s most sterile and insipid outing since Saawariya and Guzaarish. It manages to wear down and exhaust rather than engage.
Jan 2018
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Vodka Diaries
In an effort to be cool and quirky the film sinks into the shabby and the amateurish. The twists and turns of the plot are totally random, thrown in for the heck of it.
Jan 2018
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My Birthday Song
Some spit and polish and this could have been a rare good Hindi thriller.
Jan 2018
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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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Kaalakaandi
Director Akshat Verma neither gives the film any freshness and novelty, nor any depth and deliberation. Even the supposed black humour isn’t pert enough to tickle consistently.
Jan 2018
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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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Monsoon Shootout
It’s this Sliding Doors kind of broader structuring, the moody, monsoon-night noirish setting and the brooding air that make the film marginally engaging.
Dec 2017
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Fukrey Returns
The quirky characters and their oddball humour is again the mainstay even as the thin plot gets stretched to its utmost limits. You want the things to come to a closure fast even as they drag on and on with one laboured situation piling atop another.
Dec 2017
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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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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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Kadvi Hawa
...is essentially a short story on screen with a proverbial twist in the tale. Panda, however, plays it too slow for its own good — long sequences, seemingly static scenes. It gets protracted and plodding.
Nov 2017
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Tumhari Sulu
The story of a homemaker turned night time RJ is full of interesting possibilities but gets stuck in the familiar conflict zone between career and family.
Nov 2017
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Shaadi Mein Zaroor Aana
Rajkummar Rao is earnest and tries to give his best to a film that doesn’t deserve it.
Nov 2017
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Qarib Qarib Singlle
...is a happy confluence of many things besides an absolutely entrancing, candid and un-self-conscious Khan who makes acting seem utterly easy and effortless.
Nov 2017
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Ittefaq
...the old Ittefaq, despite you knowing the spoiler, can still hold you in thrall. The new one, despite making a marketing strategy out of a spoiler, just isn’t thrilling enough.
Nov 2017
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Ribbon
Despite an evident lack of flourishes and drama; a straight, linear narrative; no major ups and downs, nor sideways swings and an unadorned style Ribbon manages to engage.
Nov 2017
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Chef
Like with its tone, emotions, characters and performances the film stays consciously aloof in handling food as well.
Oct 2017
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Judwaa 2
Dhawan updates the original with some new, contemporary, international scenery but fails to update the attitude for today’s times.
Sep 2017
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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