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Traffic
This enterprise, bloated by needless saccharine and background music, has its moments but stays, overall, strictly serviceable.
May 2016
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One Night Stand
For a film which wants to strike a blow for feminism and sexual freedom, there are some troubling misogynistic touches about ‘hot’ secretaries, and ‘stay-at-home’ wives. Careful, your slip is showing.
May 2016
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Fan
It is a wonderful, grasping, knowing performance, the actor and the star all rolled in one, all at our service, even as they service Shah Rukh Khan’s stratospheric stardom.
Apr 2016
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Love Games
Some of the smooching looks professional, about the only thing that does. As for the rest, bye bye, two hours, which will never come back.
Apr 2016
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Ki & Ka
Great to see the premise– send a woman out, keep a man in, and reverse gender expectations- on screen : it just needed to have been sharper and deeper.
Apr 2016
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Mar 2016
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Kapoor & Sons
Shakun Batra's biggest achievement is that he has etched each of the central characters with precision.
Mar 2016
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Kapoor & Sons
...film like this one, with a nice sense of place and more-than-competent performers, could have been that rare Bollywood thing : a grown-up drama featuring grown-ups
Mar 2016
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Mar 2016
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Jai Gangaajal
Priyanka Chopra’s too-sophisticated unmade-up-make-up is very distracting, even in her few convincing moments. And the film goes on for far too long, even when we know how all of it will end...
Mar 2016
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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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Aligarh
Hansal Mehta and scriptwriter Apurva Asrani have come up with a lead character and a film which shines with authenticity and emotional heft, which leaves you thinking, and which says something we should all listen to...
Feb 2016
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Tere Bin Laden Dead Or Alive
...generates start-up potential, some smiles, some laugh-out-loud lines, but it keeps petering out.
Feb 2016
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Neerja
The question was always going to be, can Sonam Kapoor, carry off that demanding role? Answer is yes.
Feb 2016
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Ghayal Once Again
Sunny the actor is still a lethal weapon and can blow his opponent all the way across the room. Sunny the director should just get out his way.
Feb 2016
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Feb 2016
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Mastizaade
Having suffered through two hours of non-stop crassness, I am sorry to tell you that there are barely two-and-a-half laughs in ‘Mastizaade’. The alleged ‘masti’ is so ‘sasti’, that you are left cringing rather than cracking up.
Jan 2016
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Jan 2016
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Kyaa Kool Hain Hum 3
This film calls itself a ‘sex comedy’: I don’t know about you, but this business of keeping actors standing in a room in one line just the way they would in a sit com, apart from Tusshar’s constant presence), and tossing juvenile lines amongst themselves, doesn’t spell ess-ee-ex to me.
Jan 2016
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Jugni
The film turns clunky in other places, the first-time inexperience showing, but we don’t really mind, because it has that rare thing : a soul, and of course, song. I came out humming.
Jan 2016
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Chalk N Duster
It is a subject that deserves a great deal of attention, but not in the way ‘Chalk N’ Duster’ does it. The treatment is amateurish in the extreme...
Jan 2016
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Chauranga
The trouble with ‘Chauranga’, despite its crucial subject, is that treads familiar ground without taking the tale too far.
Jan 2016
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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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Dilwale
...is a plotless drag : the slaphappy antics you see on screen are a random jumble of light, camera, action, done in the broadest sense.
Dec 2015
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Bajirao Mastani
...had the potential to be a terrific historical. What it ends up being is a costume drama: too many costumes, too much revved-up, empty drama, and too little story.
Dec 2015
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Angry Indian Goddesses
Being labelled ‘goddesses’ seems like a ploy to reel in non-Indians looking for exotica, something the director does well. It doesn’t do these lovely ladies any favours.
Dec 2015
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Tamasha
Despite its flaws, this is Ali’s most complex story, teeming with ideas, and gives us Ranbir back again, along with the lovely Deepika...
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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Nov 2015