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Dear Dad
...Arvind Swamy’s pleasing presence and earnest effort notwithstanding. Whatever is there to the plot is too shallow to keep it afloat for even 90 odd minutes.
May 2016
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Traffic
...wears thin, feels rushed. There is neither much of an emotional tug nor an edge-of-the-seat urgency that the film promised to deliver.
May 2016
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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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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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The Blueberry Hunt
This could have been a cracker of a film to take the debate forward. But it prefers to remain hazy and tepid in a pointless world of its own.
Apr 2016
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Ki & Ka
A perennially righteous film that reinforces the very stereotypes it was promising to break.
Apr 2016
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Rocky Handsome
An adaptation can always be done with one’s own distinct touch. But Rocky Handsome is happy and satisfied in living off borrowed aesthetics even while clinging to its Indian self for all the wrong reasons. It ends up being neither here nor there.
Mar 2016
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Kapoor & Sons
There is something very finely calibrated and nicely measured about the entire package that is Kapoor & Sons.
Mar 2016
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Global Baba
...a biting recreation of the world of god men, perfectly well-timed considering the goings-on around us these days.
Mar 2016
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Teraa Surroor
...no compelling cinema here, just an out and out guilty pleasure that requires a huge suspension of disbelief to go with the flow.
Mar 2016
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Zubaan
...is a film that you stay with till the end even as you rue that it could have been so much better.
Mar 2016
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Feb 2016
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Neerja
...the larger emotional swell and sentiment of the film makes one overlook things.
Feb 2016
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Fitoor
...wants desperately to be a grand, epic romance but depends way too much on its stunning Kashmir canvas to achieve that than characters and story that you can empathise with.
Feb 2016
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Sanam Teri Kasam
Radhika Rao and Vinay Sapru spin a modern, urban fairytale, albeit a gloomy, miserable one, which, in the name of being a woman-centric film, has one of the most feeble, helpless heroines seen in recent Hindi cinema...
Feb 2016
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Jan 2016
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Saala Khadoos
...is unable to rise above the predictability and time-worn clichés of an average sports movies.
Jan 2016
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Airlift
...would have been a better film without this nationalistic bluster but has a bigger potential at the box office now with the Republic Day just round the corner.
Jan 2016
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Jan 2016
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Chalk N Duster
Nothing irritates more than sanctimony and this film is so packed with piety that it looks set to get tax exemption and mandatory school screenings to boot.
Jan 2016
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Wazir
Despite starting off promisingly with slick production values and good performances to boot Wazir unravels badly, especially in the second half as it heads towards the climax.
Jan 2016
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Chauranga
...is a lot more muted and quiet in its rage. But the thread of protest runs through it nonetheless...
Jan 2016
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Dilwale
The deliberate attempt to repackage and sell the Kajol-SRK romance of yore backfires, seeming like a pale shadow of the magic there once was.
Dec 2015
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Bajirao Mastani
Sanjay Leela Bhansali returns with another visual spectacle that wilfully takes liberties with the past that it depicts. But it does manage to engage even as it exhausts.
Dec 2015
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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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Kajarya
There are many stories that lie hidden in the depressing newspaper headlines. The art is in giving them a compelling, emotional shape on screen. Madhureeta Anand succeeds but marginally so in Kajarya.
Dec 2015
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Dec 2015