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Zubaan
...a mixed bag of a movie : some of it comes together really well ; others strands are all over the place.
Mar 2016
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Zubaan
This could have been a 'DCH' with a bite; it ends up being a good-looking but bland touristy delight.
Jul 2011
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Zero
How many times do we see A-list Bollywood superstars go out of their comfort zone? SRK could have taken a deep dive into Bauua and emerged on another level. But he gets busy trying to do another Swades, and fly the flag, and be a patriot. When you try to do everything, very little is achieved.
Dec 2018
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Zed Plus
The good news is that there are still people attempting a satirical look at power and pelf and politics, and seeing how the public and personal intersects. The bad news is that it is not effective enough.
Nov 2014
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Zanjeer
There really is nothing in this film that catches your eye except for a few set pieces, and a new male face which could make some space for himself if he gets something better.
Sep 2013
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Mar 2014
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Youngistaan
Other characters drift in and out of this crowded, disjointed film, which keeps giving us expository labels as to location and situation.
Feb 2011
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Yeh Saali Aashiqui
...the trouble with the film is that the treatment of both the romantic angles, as well as the watch-the-femme-fatale-in-her-red-lips, is dated and troubling.
Nov 2019
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Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani
...a been-here, seen-this, much-too-long glossy creature, and not much else.
May 2013
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Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani
The film begins promisingly, setting up little mysteries. But too soon, the plot starts developing holes, and the execution turns lax.
Mar 2011
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Yeh Dooriyan
This 80s theme, of how a woman with an ex husband and two children, can never be accepted by a younger man's family, belonged to a certain kind of film in the 80s. What is it doing out there, swanning around on the screen in this day and age?
Aug 2011
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Yamla Pagla Deewana Phir Se
In this installment, taglined ‘Phir Se’, even the half-hearted guffaws, which we managed in the first two, have dried up. The jokes are so lame that they are practically invisible.
Aug 2018
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Yamla Pagla Deewana Phir Se
...the loudest set of dialogues and the most vacuous set of characters we've been confronted with in a while.
Jan 2011
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Yamla Pagla Deewana 2
...the only thing one can say in its favour is that it is not as terrible as the first.
Jun 2013
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Yaariyan
...seems to have been cobbled together from ‘Main Hoon Na’ and ‘F A L T U’, and ‘Student Of The Year’, even going back to ‘Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikandar’.
Jan 2014
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Yaara Silly Silly
A foul-mouthed whore and a gentle-voiced young fellow are thrown together for a night, and the time they spend together impacts both strongly: the premise has promise, but nothing in the film delivers on it.
Nov 2015
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X: Past is Present
...plays out as a disjointed stutter, rather than a seamless progression, its backing-and-forthing more choppy and confusing than anything else.
Nov 2015
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Why Cheat India
...is disjointed and disappointing, never quite knowing which side it is on...
Jan 2019
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Why Cheat India
This is yet another in the line of the Quirky Delhi Film, a genre that has long run out of steam. The novelty lasts for a few minutes. After which it's all downhill.
Dec 2013
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Mar 2010
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Feb 2018
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Welcome Back
...the movie clomps about, looking for the laughs. And failing, mostly, to find them.
Sep 2015
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Welcome 2 Karachi
...it is all good-natured and appropriately silly, so ‘Welcome 2 Karachi’ stays watchable.
May 2015
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Wedding Pullav
It's all so contrived that you despair of this film having a single genuine emotion.
Sep 2010
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Wazir
There’s enough to watch in ‘Wazir’ despite its flaws. It reaffirms something we’ve always known: that there’s nothing to beat a plot-driven film.
Jan 2016
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Warning
There are a couple of scary moments, but no relentless stretches of heart-in-mouth terror, the kind that binds this kind of thriller.
Sep 2013
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War Chhod Na Yaar
Pity because the theme, fronted by the two lead actors, had the potential to be a zinger.
Oct 2013
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War
The chief trouble with War is that all the space is divvied up between Hrithik and Tiger, and they are so busy strutting across the screen, in all their glory, so ripped, so brawny, that the poor baddies don’t really get a chance.
Oct 2019