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Soorma
...Bollywood just doesn't do sports well. Its rules militate against the genre. Soorma, a wasted opportunity, demonstrates why and how.
Jul 2018
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Uri
...sketchy writing is a problem that plagues the film as a whole. But for the presence of Vicky Kaushal, whose character desists from overt chest-thumping, Uri: The Surgical Strike would have been a complete washout.
Jan 2019
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Malang
If you are seeking manic, mesmeric madness, Malang certainly isn't the film for you. But it might just live up to modest expectations.
Feb 2020
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Dangerous Ishhq
Karisma makes a fair fist of it. The plot is a problem. It is all over the place.
May 2012
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Bajatey Raho
Off-key and overly contrived, it is a pretty ordinary effort that is not even mildly engaging.
Jul 2013
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Boss
The humour is cringingly coarse, the stunts are completely over the top and the emotions never ring true.
Oct 2013
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Ek Villain
The biggest of the villains in Mohit Suri’s Ek Villain is the screenplay itself. It is as muddled as a serial killer’s twisted mind and just as destructive.
Jun 2014
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Roy
A film lavished with dollops of visual style and aural sophistication, Roy would have been a runaway cinematic delight if only its makers had coupled its impressive surface gloss with a modicum of substance.
Feb 2015
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Jalebi
...undermined considerably by the erratic quality of the acting from a cast led by two first-timers, Varun Mitra and Digangana Suryavanshi, and a still-raw Rhea Chakraborty.
Oct 2018
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Radhe
The film dumps a whole lot of dross on us, albeit with a certain degree of surface gloss.
May 2021
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One By Two
There is no dearth of perspiration in screenwriter Devika Bhagat’s directorial debut. She packs quite a lot into the film. Yet it feels wafer-thin.
Jan 2014
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Dhadak
The film saunters rather than sprints. In Sairat, that strategy clicked famously because that film had its heart in the right place. Dhadak doesn't. The result is a grind that pretty frames and fresh faces cannot mitigate.
Jul 2018
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Super 30
...it tells a true story but it never rings true. Nothing in the film is less convincing than the lead performance. The idea to bronze up Hrithik Roshan so that he can impersonate Anand Kumar is anything but super: it is a formula that equals zero.
Jul 2019
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Rowdy Rathore
Riddled with an array of loud, lame and specious contrivances, Rowdy Rathore plays out pretty much like a comic-book fantasy rendered in the form of a live-action film.
Jun 2012
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Shakeela
...it ties itself up in knots in trying to get the point across. Neither Richa Chadha nor Pankaj Tripathi can clean up the dreary mess.
Dec 2020
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Anaarkali Of Aarah
..is the kind of film that you want to applaud, especially on account of the concerns that it articulates. But it leaves you deeply dissatisfied. It could have done with much more passion and flair. It is worse than a misfire. It doesn't fire at all despite the magnificently full-blooded pivotal performance from Swara Bhaskar.
Mar 2017
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Panipat
It will take three hours of your life and a whole lot of patience to sit through this laboured film. Think twice.
Dec 2019
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One Night Stand
No matter how hard the director tries to liven up the proceedings, the absence of genuine substance prevents One Night Stand from rising above the irretrievably banal.
May 2016
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Saheb Biwi Aur Gangster 3
Pretty much like the political prowess that the film's fading, flailing feudal figures and their cohorts exercise, the potential of the premise to deliver surprises has, on the evidence of this outing, waned significantly.
Jul 2018
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Made In China
The film isn't happy being just a comedy. It arrogates to itself a serious, larger purpose and takes a shot at earnest drama centred on performance anxiety. When sex and guilt go hand in hand, the film tells us, quacks and charlatans have a field day. On paper, the notion is great. On the screen, the result isn't.
Oct 2019
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Lekar Hum Deewana Dil
A tiresome tale of a pair of barely-out-of-their-teens lovers who elope before they are ready for the resultant ordeal, Lekar Hum Deewana Dil is a runaway mess.
Jul 2014
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Tere Bin Laden Dead Or Alive
For want of the inspired writing that launched the franchise, it rests mostly on deadwood ideas that are as insubstantial as they are prone to rapid disintegration.
Feb 2016
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102 Not Out
This is patchy fare that is only mildly diverting despite the best efforts of two veteran actors at the top of their game.
May 2018
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Blank
All the spiffiness, sadly, stays on the surface, leaving Blank groping for purpose.
May 2019
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Bodyguard
...if you value the mop on your scalp and the grey cells in your head and want to guard yourself against this potentially mind-numbing body blow, give it a miss.
Sep 2011
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Gunday
The eye candy on liberal display in Gunday isn’t buttressed with enough narrative energy. It really is difficult to keep a two-and-a-half-hour film from losing its wheels when its engine room is bereft of the propellant of genuine inspiration.
Feb 2014
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Prem Ratan Dhan Payo
The overwrought PRDP might not be that bad, but it is syrupy to the point of being unendurable. Only for Salman Khan fans.
Nov 2015