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Be-Careful
In an industry which throws up such an abysmal record when it comes to producing viable children's films, any attempt that can slightly hold your interest is more than welcome. And that is where Zokkomon scores.
Apr 2011
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Be-Careful
Director Zoya Akhtar follows up Luck By Chance with another sensitive and entertaining study of people, even as she gives Bollywood it's first full blown contemporary road movie.
Jul 2011
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Be-Careful
The film does show flashes of substance and form, but there's a whole lot of flab that renders it formless.
Mar 2011
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Yeh Dooriyan
A brave attempt, Yeh Dooriyan needed a dash of polish and a healthier dose of story.
Aug 2011
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Yeh Dooriyan
The film is meant to showcase the Deol charisma. And that it manages to do, despite a clumsy first-half and a stodgy script.
Jan 2011
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Yeh Dooriyan
The film is a sheer delight, with the events unfolding in a breezy, comic vein which keeps the ribs relentlessly tickling. But what's more alluring are the colourful characters and the multi-layered approach to the problems of a village which becomes a microcosm of the entire nation.
Mar 2010
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Yeh Dooriyan
You end up squeezing a lot of wet tissues -- specially in the second half -- by the time the movie ends and walk out with a leaden heart.
Sep 2010
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Yeh Dooriyan
A bit of chopping, sifting and editing would have worked wonders for the film.
Jan 2011
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Veer
...there's nothing left to hold your attention in this prolonged misadventure that loses a lot due to a tardy screenplay, a headless script and an old-fashioned direction.
Jan 2010
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Veer
Intermittently interesting, Utt Pataang has a problem of plenty. You've seen this so many times in experimental gangster noir.
Feb 2011
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Feb 2011
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Veer
Refreshing, unusual and unlike your typical women-oriented films, Turning 30 marks an addition to the increasing tribe of intelligent women directors.
Jan 2011
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Tum Milo Toh Sahi
Director Kabir Sadanand picks up a simple story and tells it well. And as he does, he touches upon the new trend of the common-man-as-crusader which seems to have taken India by storm currently.
Apr 2010
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Nov 2009
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Tum Mile
Generously sprinkled with easily identifiable characters and a story that reiterates the need for families to bond and good to prevail over evil -- sweet, simple, succinct kiddy themes...
Dec 2010
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Toh Baat Pakki
...may not be as riveting as the 80s entertainers, yet it rides high on sheer nostalgia. Also, it presents a different kind of cinema in an age that lays great emphasis on high decibel, larger-than-life drama.
Feb 2010
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The Japanese Wife
If you really care about aesthetics and have been hungering for something that will satiate your finer sensibilities -- battered by now, by the relentless onslaught of kitsch -- you must grab a dekko...
Apr 2010
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The Japanese Wife
...it breeds some breezy moments of black humour and poignant romance, apart from eliciting some fine performances from the key players.
Apr 2010
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Dec 2011
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Sep 2011
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Thanks Maa
...is a film that will make you cry and laugh, even as it fills you with admiration and warmth for the next decrepit kid you see on the red light, running nose et al.
Mar 2010
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Thank You
Is this a case of playing safe for the director who has recently burned his hands at the box office or is it a drought of story ideas that seems to be Bollywood's biggest scourge?
Apr 2011
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Sep 2011
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Tere Mere Phere
Now why must Hema chose to re-make her first forgettable directorial venture, Dil Aashna Hai with daughter Esha? Surely she deserves better.
Oct 2011
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Tere Mere Phere
...has colour, humour, pace but nothing does seem to fall in place in terms of plot and character connect.
Dec 2010
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Tere Mere Phere
...a half-blown venture where there are too many theatrics and too many loosely edited scenes to allow the film to unfold as an uninterrupted laugh riot.
Apr 2011