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Gold
...dragged down by a storyline that puts too much store by the anticipated crowd-pulling power of a Bollywood A-lister.
Aug 2018
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Brothers
It makes so much noise that any sensible point about brotherly bonding and filial fidelity that it might be trying to make is completely drowned out by the decibels.
Aug 2015
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Ghayal Once Again
...looks every inch like a film that has arrived at least 25 years too late even though it does reflect the undeniable fact that corruption is still a way of life in this country.
Feb 2016
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Junglee
It would of course be too much to expect subtlety and other niceties from a turgid movie that cannot even do justice to the pack of pachyderms that it employs in order to acquire heft.
Mar 2019
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Laali Ki Shaadi Mein Laddoo Deewana
...is a tedious rom-com that fails to shrug off its loopy quality despite a few entertaining performances
Apr 2017
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Ramaiya Vastavaiya
Watch Ramaiya Vastavaiya only if you have the stomach for unbridled lunacy.
Jul 2013
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War
...is all sound and fury, a glossy globe-trotting thriller that goes haywire at every turn.
Oct 2019
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Bol Bachchan
...is a comedy so absurd that it could reduce you to tears of despair. Conversely, if you have the stomach for such rampant silliness, it might propel you into paroxysms of delight. The call is entirely yours.
Jul 2012
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Rajjo
The old-fashioned plot is completely at variance with the present-day realities of the Mumbai underbelly that the film seeks to project.
Nov 2013
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Commando 2
It's a lot of sound and fury that's not worth your money, hard-earned or otherwise.
Mar 2017
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Race 3
...with the lead actor strutting around like a clueless stuntman in the midst of flying bullets and exploding cars, all the high-voltage action is about as exciting as a three-hour-long sitting at the dentist's.
Jun 2018
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Kabir Singh
...is a hugely problematic film. The bloated, overlong love story seeks to lend a veneer of normality to acts of dreadful delinquency and sickening misogyny by painting an empathetic portrait of a wayward doctor who lets heartbreak get the better of him, in the process endangering the life of a patient every time he picks up a scalpel to perform a surgery.
Jun 2019
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Street Dancer 3D
It is an edifice built on a weak foundation: yes, a mound of rubble is what Street Dancer 3D as it collapses under its own weight. It whips up, in an unseemly fit of frenzy, a purported celebration of dance. Cinema is given short shrift in the bargain.
Jan 2020
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Gang of Ghosts
It deserves a quick, unceremonious burial. Moral of the story: Never rake up ghosts of the past.
Mar 2014
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Happy Phirr Bhag Jayegi
...the hilarity quotient is low. The precursor had delivered on at least a part of the promise inherent in the quirky premise. This one goes through the motions without ever coming close to finding a genuine rhythm.
Aug 2018
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Indoo Ki Jawani
...is steadfastly unamusing because the heroine's youthful exuberance is never allowed to rise above the juvenile.
Dec 2020
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Fugly
The characters are poorly etched, the screenplay is insipid, and the performances, to say the least, are well below par.
Jun 2014
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Sanam Re
The befuddling, undercooked storyline is sure to leave most viewers wondering where it actually begins and where it ends. Sanam Re is a juvenile jumble that is undecipherable.
Feb 2016
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Saat Uchhakkey
...is far too undercooked a broth to pass for what it wants to be - a zany, off-the-beaten-track entertainer.
Oct 2016
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Maatr
Subtleties and nuances are obviously beyond Maatr. It deals solely in broad strokes. No matter how much slack you are willing to cut this film, it will still need some more in order to have its glaring gaps glossed over.
Apr 2017
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The Accidental Prime Minister
...carries an upfront disclaimer that asserts that it is intended only for entertainment and admits that creative liberties have been taken in the interest of dramatisation. The film, however, is neither hugely entertaining nor engagingly dramatic.
Jan 2019
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Issaq
...an unconvincing story of ill-fated love. It is not at all easy to sit through.
Jul 2013
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Ungli
...when a film is more interesting for what it isn't than for what it is, giving it a miss might be the most prudent option.
Nov 2014
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Babumoshai Bandookbaaz
...hurtles towards an insipid, unintelligible climax, which includes a bout of Russian roulette between two adversaries. It is, in the end, much ado about nothing because the outcome of the life-and-death contest is as predictable as everything else in the film.
Aug 2017
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Helicopter Eela
The problem with Helicopter Eela is that it allows the drama to trump its comic potential. A little more wit and humour and a little less earnestness might have given the film the wings it wants.
Oct 2018
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Dharam Sankat Mein
The crisis at the heart of the plot of Dharam Sankat Mein extends well beyond the conflict that the protagonist confronts. It quickly engulfs the film as a whole as it beats about the bush and barely gets its act together.
Apr 2015