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Saheb Biwi Aur Gangster 3
Much more money has been spent in this part, to make it plusher. It’s shinier, sure, but much less on point. In the power-hungry, sexually charged games the trio and its hangers-on play, there’s a lot more that topples than towers.
Jul 2018
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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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Tum Mile
...needed much more imagination to get to be the heist-roadie film that it set out to be...
Sep 2010
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Saheb Biwi Aur Gangster
...is one of those films which occasionally slides smoothly into top gear, but the ride overall bumps over traversed terrain.
Sep 2011
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Inkaar
...could have been truly radical. But it becomes a film that prefers to cop out, rather than deliver on the promise it held out so bravely in its initial passages.
Jan 2013
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Ghanchakkar
This could have been a hoot, but the execution lets down the premise, and the film remains one of those that could have been edgier and funnier.
Jun 2013
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Mar 2014
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Kick
We know that a Salman film is created solely to display his popular quirks and his one-liners and his ‘andaaz’, all of which are designed to send his fans into a swoon.
Jul 2014
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Sonu Ke Titu Ki Sweety
...provides some laughs, some of which escape involuntarily. But it also leaves you wondering. Can Ranjan grow up his callow characters? Of course, he can, because he has the smarts (remember Pyar Ka Punchnama?). Does he really want to? I’m not sure. Sharp comedy of the sexes is the hard stuff. Cheap laughs are easy.
Feb 2018
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Dream Girl
There are many good ideas floating around in Dream Girl. But ideas need execution, and on that score, this film flubs it: it has so little wit and imagination that it turns all those ideas into a series of flat set-pieces.
Sep 2019
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Baaghi 3
The only reason for Baaghi 3 to exist is this: to showcase the amazingly ripped bod of Tiger Shroff, who is poetry when in motion, and faltering verse when there’s emotion.
Mar 2020
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Baaghi 3
...has a lame plot and that the supporting cast has more heft than the lead players.
Oct 2010
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Life Goes On
Some subtlety would have done this film, which had potential, a world of good. The performers strive to be credible, particularly the seasoned trio of Tagore-Karnad- Puri. It's a pity the film lets them down.
Mar 2011
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Hate Story
...what we get is an oomphy, oozy femme who is uninhibitedly fatale, and capable of steaming things up, but stuck in a story which starts off as credible but all too soon plunges us into a pit of disbelief.
Apr 2012
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Oct 2012
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I Me Aur Main
This could have been a slap-up rom com. But the trouble with this good-looking movie is that it is patchily written and performed, and often feels contrived.
Mar 2013
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Chef
There are some interesting flavours here, but ‘Chef’ feels derivative, and doesn’t come together as a fully satisfactory dish. And that’s got to do with the uneven, stodgy writing.
Oct 2017
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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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Jul 2010
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Luv Ka The End
...there's so little else in the film that it all flattens out in an alarming sit-com like fashion, as this very now film is reduced to using the creakiest comic devices from old-style Bollywood—itching powder, and laxatives.
May 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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Filmistaan
There are a few enjoyable moments in ‘Filmistaan’, but the potential is never fully realized.
Jun 2014
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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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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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Karwaan
...is aiming for an easy, offhand charm, and we get that only in bits and pieces, especially when Irrfan hits his stride on occasion, or when Dulquer proves just how good he can be...
Aug 2018
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Super 30
Yes, the real-life story is inspiring. But the telling of it is a drag. The film has its moments, which belong mostly to its young people: the kids are all right.
Jul 2019
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Bhangra Paa Le
It's all so contrived that you despair of this film having a single genuine emotion.
Sep 2010
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Force
But 'Force' is not a tour de force it could have been because Abraham doesn't cut it all the way.
Sep 2011