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Sep 2015
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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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Jan 2016
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Mardaani 2
The film engages with the gender issue in the all too familiar and stereotypical way, barely rising above being a cat-and-mouse thriller.
Dec 2019
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Mard Ko Dard Nahi Hota
There’s an innocence and transparency, a steadiness of tone and tenor, a perpetual energy and the delectable thread of whimsy that knits the film through and through.
Mar 2019
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Sep 2018
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Manikarnika
A flat retelling of the legend of Jhansi Ki Rani that aims at stoking nationalism but reduces the story to mere platitudes.
Jan 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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Main Tera Hero
Gets way too random and hit and miss. Doesn’t feel fresh enough and lacks the vital spark.
Apr 2014
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Madras Cafe
Not a political, ideological film so much as a thriller about a grand conspiracy.
Aug 2013
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Made In China
...is an utterly confused film. It is unsure about what it wants to focus on and achieve.
Oct 2019
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Madaari
...refuses to fly despite the ever reliable Irrfan Khan as its pivot and spine.
Jul 2016
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Maatr
...like one of the vigilante justice sagas of the 80s—old fashioned, rough, loud, over the top, and all about offering some kind of emotional catharsis through violence to the woman wronged, rather than any significant thoughts for us to ponder on.
Apr 2017
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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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Luv Shuv Tey Chicken Khurana
An unsurprising story, but told with freshness, fun and loads of warmth.
Nov 2012
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Love Sex Aur Dhokha
...is remarkable in the way it experiments with the digicam to create a novel, audacious narrative.
Mar 2010
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Love Games
...is a C Grade film trying hard to be cool (pitches itself as urban-thriller) making it worse for itself.
Apr 2016
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Love Aaj Kal
In the faux intensity and pointless philosophising of his newer lot of films the soul goes entirely missing and a turgidity underlines the telling.
Feb 2020
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Lootera
Has just the right construct of a classic but stops short of becoming one. And that's such a loss-there, yet not quite.
Jul 2013
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Listen... Amaya
Doesn’t do justice to the nostalgia that it merrily plays on. A rather limp, listless and protracted narrative.
Feb 2013
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Lipstick Under My Burkha
Shrivastava’s women are identifiable, their predicaments and problems are easy to relate to. What adds more conviction to the portrayals are the persuasive performances by all the ladies at the helm.
Jul 2017
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Jul 2014
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Lafangey Parindey
Despite being "not too bad", it doesn't quite go beyond the lacklustre either.
Aug 2010
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Laal Kaptaan
...had the makings of an unusual new genre; a barbaric, brutal, surreal, picaresque fantasy. Unfortunately, it is unable to pull it off.
Oct 2019