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Mickey Virus
Without any authentic ring to it, and with artless performances and a predictable story, the last thing I could do, while sitting through its more than two hours of running time, was suspend disbelief.
Oct 2013
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Matru Ki Bijlee Ka Mandola
Its ambition to reach out to the big picture derails Matru ki Bijlee ka Mandola. In overreaching, Bhardwaj ends up underplaying his characters.
Jan 2013
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Mary Kom
The champion’s amazing journey is broad-brushed, Manipur is a puzzle and Priyanka Chopra is impressively industrious
Sep 2014
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Margarita With A Straw
Watching Margarita with a Straw, I smiled and laughed a lot. Even in moments when I felt deep sympathy for her, the girl was sassy.
Apr 2015
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Luv Shuv Tey Chicken Khurana
The combination of a good story and its nimble execution work along with some terrific performances.
Nov 2012
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Lootera
It may be a couple of notches short of a masterpiece, but Lootera is the kind of film you will remember long after watching it.
Jul 2013
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Lakshmi
A film with heart and piety, Lakshmi suffers because of its cloying literality.
Mar 2014
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Krrish 3
...is neither Amar Chitra Katha nor Marvel. The Indian superhero stays in an artless, old-fashioned limbo.
Nov 2013
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Kill Dil
...is an amalgam of Hindi film clichés, the most obvious being the orphans, set to uninspired gimmicks. A waste of a Govinda comeback.
Nov 2014
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Kick
It’s a really long Salman Khan act—he’s the messiah, the crazy ‘dil se’ man. Just don’t count it as cinema
Jul 2014
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Katiyabaaz
It is heartening to see documentaries release on the big screen, and Katiyabaaz is the clever new avatar of this genre that turns the mundane and the extraordinary in reality into marketable and watchable cinema.
Aug 2014
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Kai Po Che!
A well-crafted mass entertainer about sweeping emotions rarely comes along. Kai Po Che is one of them.
Feb 2013
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Kahaani
...is one of those rare films which makes you want to wince once in a while, but keeps you hooked throughout.
Mar 2012
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Jism - 2
...is poor in every aspect of film-making—and there’s not much sex in it either.
Aug 2012
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Jab Tak Hai Jaan
It is strikingly out of tune with the age, and real emotions. Even seen as a film about extreme characters, there is no originality in the story or its treatment to make it timeless.
Nov 2012
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I Me Aur Main
There is no genuinely entertaining light-heartedness about I, Me Aur Main, as good romcoms have.
Mar 2013
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Heroine
...a damp squib. Bhandarkar’s years in the industry are obviously not the fodder for this film. We have heard this story many times before; he has no new interpretation.
Sep 2012
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Hasee Toh Phasee
It is an extremely likable balance between light and shade, the sadness in his beautiful lead woman sitting happily alongside her smiles. The sugar is pleasingly granular.
Feb 2014
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Jul 2012
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Happy New Year
So much staleness, packed into a running time of 3 hours, is revolting even to the brain-dead stupor that we, fans of Hindi movies, sometimes habitually get into just for the sake of time-pass entertainment.
Oct 2014
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Happy Ending
Listless and phoney though it is as cinema, Happy Ending has some chuckle-inducing moments, and one secret weapon in Govinda.
Nov 2014
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Haider
...an immensely effective reimagination of Shakespeare—and the film’s biggest triumph is that the provincial, in this case Kashmir and the characters defined by its reality, shine in a universal and timeless tragedy.
Oct 2014
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Gippi
The film has the universally acceptable message that most self-help books will give you: love your flaws, love yourself. A film needs some more meat; it can’t thrive on a message. When storytelling, characterization and performance are lost, all is lost.
May 2013