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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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Charlie Kay Chakkar Mein
a confused mish-mash of scenes, with characters doing lines, snorting, shooting up, shooting at and so on. And on.
Nov 2015
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Oct 2015
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Pyaar Ka Punchnama 2
...all we get is more of the same, minus the freshness and the age-appropriate smart lines.
Oct 2015
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Jazbaa
...convoluted and over-plotted, as a whole. Sanjay Gupta’s ability to create menace and a sinister sense of place is overwhelmed by the film’s need to showcase the lead actor.
Oct 2015
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Talvar
Despite its flaws, ‘Talvar’, which rhymes so closely with ‘Talwar’, is a brave film that devastates.
Oct 2015
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Singh Is Bliing
...is a low rent comedy and doesn’t care who knows it. Everything about it stoops low: IQ, jokes, scenes. Of course, there is no story, only unconnected, jerky set-pieces.
Oct 2015
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Sep 2015
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Timeout
...raises a subject that is usually not tackled with any seriousness in our movies, places it at the heart of the story. For that alone it deserves props.
Sep 2015
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Calendar Girls
A hurried after-thought, which talks of how these girls are really, truly ‘proud achievers’, comes right in the end. And it’s just that, an after-thought. The rest of it exploits—smugly, tackily, uncomfortably explicitly—young women being exploited.
Sep 2015
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Meeruthiya Gangsters
The movie is so far from being the zippy crime caper it presumably set out to be that it leaves you stranded, wondering just what is going on.
Sep 2015
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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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Aug 2015
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All Is Well
Whoever named this film must have a great sense of black humour, because the only thing ‘well’ about the film is its title.
Aug 2015
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Manjhi
Nawazuddin Siddiqui strains every sinew, and remains consistently watchable despite the shifts in tone. But even he cannot make the film soar.
Aug 2015
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Gour Hari Dastaan
...it has all the elements that could have made it all this and more, but it comes off flat and dull.
Aug 2015
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Aug 2015
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Bangistan
The film finds its laughs in the odd moment, but comes off, over all, flat and tepid.
Aug 2015
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Drishyam
The film, which stays mostly faithful to the original but has a few inserts, could have been better if it had been tighter. And if Ajay Devgn had someone other than Shriya Saran (the two don’t quite fit) opposite him.
Jul 2015
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Jul 2015
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Masaan
...is imbued with a sense of place and time, poetry and lyricism, and it captures the essence of Banaras, constant-yet-changeable, with felicity and feeling.
Jul 2015
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Bajrangi Bhaijaan
This film presses many red-hot buttons, even if the treatment is strictly in-the-clouds ‘filmi’. And gives us Shirtless Salman as a dove of peace, speaking for all religions and ‘mulqs’. Believe it, or faint.
Jul 2015
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Bahubali
This is full-tilt ,fully-assured filmmaking of a very high order. ‘Baahubali’ is simply spectacular.
Jul 2015