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Raag Desh
...doesn’t meet the requirements of the historical epic in terms of its production values, but it does match the genre’s basic requirement: the only reason to travel back into the past is to ponder about the present.
Jul 2017
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The Accidental Prime Minister
...never evolves into anything more than a broadside against the Gandhi clan.
Jan 2019
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Roohi
Without the entertainment offered by Stree or the conviction of Bulbbul, Roohi is neither here nor there, like its dual-sided heroine.
Mar 2021
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Force
...isn't quite as offensive as some other recent releases, but it neither captures the thrills of the original nor fixes the flaws.
Oct 2011
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Singham Returns
The delusion of an incorruptible police force dedicated to upholding law and order at all costs and impervious to any manner of inducement pushes Singham Returns onto the same shelf as science fiction.
Aug 2014
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ABCD - Any Body Can Dance - 2
...boasts of a couple of popular young stars, 3D and higher production values, but it is mostly a hollow spectacle. The characters are underdeveloped, the 146-minute narrative drags, and all the energy is reserved for the elaborately staged and eye-popping dance sequences...
Jun 2015
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Shivaay
There’s a decent Hollywood-style lone-wolf- on-the-prowl action thriller hidden inside this long feature, but it is sacrificed to Devgn’s indulgence.
Oct 2016
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Rakht Charitra 2
The law of diminishing returns catches up with Ram Gopal Varma's Rakht Charitra 2...
Dec 2010
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Welcome Back
...spilling over with some good gags, many great lines, and piles of tedium.
Sep 2015
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Ok Jaanu
Ali has all the elements in place for a breezy ode to young love, but his mechanical approach and miscasting ensure that OK Jaanu is not exactly an okay remake.
Jan 2017
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Parmanu
...merrily mixes fact, fiction, Quora-type information, artificially generated suspense and domestic melodrama to roll out a nationalistic yarn about India’s transformation into a nuclear state.
May 2018
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Baaghi 3
Apart from a couple of lavishly mounted action scenes, Baaghi 3 has little going for it, except, perhaps, the compulsion to drag the franchise along for as long as its leading man is able and willing.
Mar 2020
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3 Idiots
...delivers several neatly written comic scenes and feel-good moments, but the movie isn’t as crisp and sure-footed as his Munnabhai films.
Dec 2009
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Shaandaar
...proceeds in a jerky and slapdash fashion, and only a few sequences hit the mark.
Oct 2015
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Mumbai Saga
Packed with Sanjay Gupta’s trademark flourishes – aphoristic dialogue, massive close-ups, shots of men walking chest out and in slow motion towards the camera, scenes lensed through a jaundice-yellow filter – Mumbai Saga works hard to live up to its title.
Mar 2021
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Wazir
It’s only a few days into the new year, but a leading contender for the Most Ludicrous Screenplay of 2016 has already emerged.
Jan 2016
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Baaghi 2
Tiger Shroff is still waiting for the movie that shapes his limited emoting abilities and limitless action skills into a character who embodies the times.
Mar 2018
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Badla
Taapsee Pannu is unable to summon up the blank canvas onto which all manner of possibilities can be projected, while Amitabh Bachchan hops on the gravitas train for the nth time.
Mar 2019
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Yeh Saali Zindagi
Mishra wants to be cool and quirky, like Guy Ritchie, but to paraphrase New Yorker critic Anthony Lane, he forgets the first rule of cool: don’t try to be.
Feb 2011
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Tubelight
Tubelight does not have as many layers as Bajrangi Bhaijaan, and Laxman is far too passive, lachrymose and one-dimensional to evoke empathy or identification.
Jun 2017
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Ajji
Outrage over the rape of children is easily provoked, but it takes hard work to make a movie about the justice that is due to them. Ajji takes the easy way out.
Nov 2017
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Rann
On the minus side, Rann’s story is so simplistic that it boils down the entire television news sector into two rival channels. The movie is as low on authenticity as it is on histrionics
Jan 2010
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Mastram
No surprises into the nature of Indian sexual desire disturb Rajaram’s orderly journey, and Bagga’s limp performance makes the character even less interesting.
May 2014
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Vishwaroop II
The thespian in him is missing from a movie littered with ordinary performances. Only Rahul Bose’s hoarse-voiced Omar provides the campiness that could have salvaged the movie from its dire sense of self-importance.
Aug 2018
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Bombairiya
...the humour not sharp or bizarre enough, and the narrative too disjointed to hang together.
Jan 2019
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Mardaani 2
While the briskness lends some urgency to what turns out to be routine serial killer fare, it barely allows for character sketching.
Dec 2019
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Miss Tanakpur Haazir Ho
The satire is seems confidently put across at first but then becomes illogical and unwieldy. Kapri is aiming for a tragicomedy about rural India, but some of his visuals are straight out of a horror movie.
Jun 2015