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Bank Chor
...is low on laughs, squanders its potential, and reflects the ineptitude of the heist in question.
Jun 2017
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Jai Ho! Democracy
A gag that’s worth a few minutes of air-time in a sitcom has been stretched beyond repair in Ranjit Kapoor’s movie.
Apr 2015
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Wedding Anniversary
...is a throwback to the worst of 1970s films, the ones in which characters delivered themselves of soliloquies and metaphysical treatises that were meant to impress audiences but ultimately bored them to tears.
Feb 2017
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My Birthday Song
...has just about enough meat for a short fictional film, but even that would have had to have better writing and less amateurish performances to leave traces.
Jan 2018
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Mantostaan
The acting is largely amateurish, the scenes are poorly paced and directed, and the production is far too tacky for the big screen.
May 2017
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Baa Baaa Black Sheep
It is a measure of the movie’s staggering incompetence from start to finish that even veterans such as Anupam Kher, Annu Kapoor and Kay Kay Menon do not manage to leave a trace.
Mar 2018
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One By Two
...mashes together typical rom-com ingredients with indie-style improvisation, but the result is sequences that play on for too long and moments that work in isolation but never as part of the big picture.
Jan 2014
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Jan 2017
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Namaste England
There is barely a moment of relief from the tedium of watching the leads go through the motions and tuning into the poorly written dialogue and endlessly uninvolving moments.
Oct 2018
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Pagalpanti
...pedestrian writing and severe shortage of engaging characters and imaginative gags.
Nov 2019
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Gabbar Is Back
...is designed as a star vehicle for Kumar’s limited acting skills but considerable fighting prowess.
May 2015
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Gori Tere Pyaar Mein
Malhotra’s desire to engage with the issues that matter seems to be a response to criticism that Bollywood needs to move out of la-la land and in the direction of realistic cinema, but Gori Tere Pyaar Mein! is proof that this journey is not for everybody.
Nov 2013
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Pranaam
The amateurish staging and tacky melodrama ensure that Pranaam ends up without anything resembling a high score, let alone grace marks.
Aug 2019
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Dil Toh Baccha Hai Ji
...has everything you can expect from a Bhandarkar production: tacky production values, barbs at the wealthy and Westernised, caricatured gay characters.
Feb 2011
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The Legend of Michael Mishra
...is saddled with amateurish acting and a directionless plot.
Aug 2016
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Commando 2
...has a ludicrous plot, banal dialogue, action sequences derived from Hollywood and East Asian cinema, and mostly sub-par acting.
Mar 2017
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The Tashkent Files
...is the kind of movie you get when you arrange an offline meeting of the online community that has rallied behind the Quora question, “Did Lal Bahadur Shastri die a natural death?”
Apr 2019
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The Xpose
...an ambitious vanity project that holds appeal only to other members of the singer’s treasure hunt.
May 2014
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Raaz Reboot
Why build a 127-minute narrative around false hopes, non-existent sexual frisson, non-scary horror scenes, songs that escape memory, and a plot that relies on the power of the mangal sutra to set things right?
Sep 2016
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Mantra
...Kharkongor’s script simply doesn’t have the layers of complexity to match its ambitions. The mostly English dialogue is stilted, the pacing is sluggish, and many of the scenes are disconnected from each other.
Mar 2017
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Toilet
...pans out exactly like a public service announcement video produced by Swachh Bharat Abhiyan: it demands attention because of the seriousness of the subject, but makes little effort to engage its intended recipients.
Aug 2017
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We Are Family
...a pedestrian local rehash of a movie that was already silly to begin with.
Sep 2010
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Zanjeer
...assembles the usual dose of slow-motion fight sequences, songs and flat comic sequences between the first frame and the last.
Sep 2013
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Creature
The pumped-up background score tries to send a few shivers down the spine, but the only impact is on the ear-drums.
Sep 2014
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Dongri Ka Raja
Uncharismatic leads, unlimited clichés and irrelevant plot twists spell death for this Mumbai gangster movie.
Nov 2016
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Feb 2010
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Heropanti
The screenplay lurches from one scene to the next, piles on the risible dialogue, desultorily cuts to a song every now and then...
May 2014
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Kuch Kuch Locha Hai
The writing is risible, the acting sub-par and the whole premise too ineptly handled to be offensive.
May 2015