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X: Past is Present
There is a big idea here, which gets communicated to the viewer at times and eludes at others.
Nov 2015
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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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Guzaarish
Bhansali's painterliness wreaks havoc on the subject. The visual excesses distract from the basic emotions. You don’t feel for the central character.
Nov 2010
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Baby
In the name of supposed 'realism', the film plays on and magnifies the popular perceptions about 'Islamic terror'.
Jan 2015
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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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Badmaash Company
Begins well, there are some nice moments, but the second half gets way too moralistic.
May 2010
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ABCD - Any Body Can Dance - 2
A string of spectacular dance set-pieces linked together by random scenes.
Jun 2015
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Daddy
...falls in the shadow; adrift and astray, mislaid between what would have been aimed on paper, in the script, and what eventually plays out on the screen.
Sep 2017
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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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Batla House
A needlessly convoluted and garbled interpretation of the Batla House encounter case which sides with the cops.
Aug 2019
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Aashayein
Fails to measure up to what it is inspired from — the most famous 'death' film, Anand.
Sep 2010
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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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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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Yamla Pagla Deewana 2
Not once did I smile, let alone laugh out loud in this ‘comedy’.
Jun 2013
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Tamasha
...could well be the next part in the Ranbir Kapoor-In-Evolution series of Hindi cinema that boasts of films like Wake Up Sid, Rockstar and Yeh Jawani Hai Deewani.
Nov 2015
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Meri Pyaari Bindu
A lot more charm was needed here but dullness, unfortunately, is all we get.
May 2017
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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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Madaari
...refuses to fly despite the ever reliable Irrfan Khan as its pivot and spine.
Jul 2016
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Ok Jaanu
...is an overly faithful, shot for shot remake of ‘O Kadhal Kanmani’ but misses out on the charisma of Dulquer and Nithya.
Jan 2017
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Shagird
Nana Patekar plays to the gallery and brings a smile to the audience's faces but the movie soon turns into gimmickry than fun.
May 2011
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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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I Am Kalam
A straight, simple story with no great highs and lows and an easy resolution.
Aug 2011
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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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Photograph
...I was also left feeling a sense of void and dissatisfaction, in that it barely scratches the surface of what could have been a far deeper engagement.
Mar 2019
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Rockstar
...the setting, imagery, costumes, get overwrought and orchestrated, the emotions become magnified. What Imtiaz forgets is that simplicity can sometimes talk much more.
Nov 2011
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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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Jannat 2
It is a macho, chauvinistic world. The movie itself, though, acts rough and raw but isn’t gritty enough
May 2012