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Hate Story
Publicised purely on the strength of its 'erotic' content and scandalously adult themes, Hate Story delivers very little actual heat.
Apr 2012
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Shamitabh
Bachchan is excellent, Dhanush does well, but both are straitjacketed by a flimsy, uneven story that is eventually just exhausting.
Feb 2015
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O Teri
...borrows constantly from Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro and drowns it all in slapstick so noisy it all comes off as more lame than loving, more blasphemous than beholden.
Mar 2014
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Jun 2017
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Hero
This is a poorly-written film where the kids don’t seem to have any true allegiance to the parental figures or any consistent morality or conflict, even.
Sep 2015
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Katti Batti
It is an imbecilic cliche-ridden embarrassment that made me want to punch it in the mouth.
Sep 2015
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Jannat 2
A lot would have been forgiven -- as it often is with these producers -- if the film had either a meatier plot or a more gripping narrative, but this one's just tiresome as the obvious story drags on.
May 2012
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Jail
...formulaic, below average Bollywood headache, slowed down to lugubrious dullness.
Nov 2009
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Kochadaiiyaan
...a fundamentally flawed dud, one without anything to applaud besides grand (if self-glorifying) ambition. And little is as heartbreaking to witness as utterly failed ambition.
May 2014
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Tubelight
...means well, an anti-war movie that illustrates the pointlessness of battle and the importance of not actively hating those you are at war with, and while its simplistic message is timely and admirable, the film is rendered unwatchable because of the leading man.
Jun 2017
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Nov 2018
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Ishkq In Paris
...a bad film brought further down by a bunch of Bollywood cliches and a fading Preity Zinta.
May 2013
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Thackeray
This is either an oblivious or blatantly self-aware film, a work not of propaganda as much as it is a work of pride, celebrating a legacy of violence.
Jan 2019
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Housefull
There is tacky, there is trashy and then there is a whole new depth of shamelessness...
Apr 2010
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Shivaay
To evoke a truly superb avalanche-filled film, this one may as well have been called Force Manure.
Oct 2016
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Jul 2019
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Jazbaa
It is a mercifully brief movie, just about two hours long, and goes by briskly enough, but that’s about it in terms of the good part.
Oct 2015
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Begum Jaan
...could well have been a film about a fantastic bunch of feisty, disparate women taking on all odds, but alas. We're left only with memories of some melancholy bores.
Apr 2017
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Dec 2013
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Total Dhamaal
The script is unforgivably lazy. There are setups galore — a car has a bonnet both at the front and at the back — but there are no payoffs. Instead, Kumar and his actors move from setup to setup, hoping we have indeed left our brains at home.
Feb 2019
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Rustom
...no possible fiction-based-on-fact disclaimer could have prepared me for the fact that Rustom is a parody. That, I believe, can be the only explanation for this daft film.
Aug 2016
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Maximum
The idea of corrupt cops facing off against each other can be a fine one, but mired here in the midst of people saying things really really slowly, it loses its steam.
Jun 2012
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Veer
It's a film so dated it hurts. Imagine Manmohan Desai's atrocious Mard, but minus Mr Desai or Mr Bachchan. Yes, that bad.
Jan 2010
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All Is Well
...spends two hours desperately tickling the audience but the overall impact is one of torture.
Aug 2015
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Baaghi 2
It is a long, painful film capable of giving audiences post-traumatic stress disorder.
Mar 2018