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London Dreams
For this film to have soared, it needed to have been a little more untethered, a little more free-spirited.
Nov 2009
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Nov 2009
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Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani
Inanity is a great tool for a certain kind of comedy, and Santoshi exploited it brilliantly it in ‘Andaz Apna Apna’. Here he lets inane pile up upon asinine, without getting anything out of it, and burying all his characters deep under.
Nov 2009
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Tum Mile
That lack of tension tells on the film: the effective parts when the two are coming together and drawing apart get submerged by the way it wraps.
Nov 2009
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Aao Wish Karein
Good proposition for kids, and adults, to buy in. But `Aao Wish Karein’ falls in between two stools, and becomes a film which appeals strongly to neither.
Nov 2009
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Kurbaan
...raises thorny questions, and prepares us for tough answers. It is an important, relevant film.
Nov 2009
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De Dana Dan
An hour into ‘De Dana Dan’, you are at the exact same point you were the last time Priydarshan got a bunch of people to chase their tails in an enclosed space: struggling to keep your eyes open.
Nov 2009
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Radio
Ishaan Trivedi’s new film is about young love and confusion and confirmation, flitting in and out of studios, and TV screens, and Facebook status updates.
Dec 2009
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Dec 2009
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Paa
...the film plays footsie, without really going all the way. How about something braver and quirkier the next time around?
Jan 2010
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Paa
How do you watch a film you know will pan out exactly as you think it will from its first frame?
Jan 2010
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Chance Pe Dance
...it is simply not new enough : Shahid/ Sameer’s thorny progress through tinsel-town is strewn with moments we’ve witnessed before. You also wish there was more energy in the sequences that fill in the spaces between the work-outs on the dance floor : the film gets lax too often.
Jan 2010
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Chance Pe Dance
Salman is the last Khan standing. It makes not a whit of difference to him and his directors that the space for retrofitted 70s packages has shrunk to nothing...
Jan 2010
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Rann
...juxtaposes big media houses and large-scale monetary and moral corruption in a style that’s so patently Ram Gopal Varma that it leaves us with a dizzying sense of deja vu. Been here. Seen this.
Jan 2010
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Road to Sangam
What could have been an effective clarion call to peace is drowned out by rhetoric.
Jan 2010
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Striker
...a striking example of just how good a film can be when the setting and the people are real. And it is an equally striking example of how a terrific effort can lose steam when it moves away from its central focus.
Feb 2010
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My Name is Khan
But the real bravery award should go to director-producer Karan Johar, who dispenses with the designer preciousness of his previous films to come as close as this to something real, something important.
Feb 2010
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Click
Sivan’s so busy setting the scene that he ignores the bumps and holes in his story.
Feb 2010
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Toh Baat Pakki
But the biggest shocker here is Tabu. Why she, said to be extremely picky about her roles, said yes to this one will remain an enduring mystery.
Feb 2010
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Teen Patti
The trouble with `Teen Patti’ is not that we’re all too familiar with its central idea. It lies in the patchy way the plot is laid out, and in the characters who do not, at any point, feel completely filled out.
Feb 2010
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Karthik Calling Karthik
...there’s really no steady progression, just staccato sequences where Karthik ( Akhtar) and Shonali ( Padukone) go from happy to fractious within nanoseconds.
Feb 2010
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Mar 2010
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Mar 2010