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Guddu Rangeela
Kapoor demonstrates a growing assuredness, which is clear in the robust, cracking portions of the film: all he now needs is a solid hole-less plot with lines to match.
Jul 2015
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Miss Tanakpur Haazir Ho
This could have been a sharp black comedy with a strong sense of place , mining its superb absurdist premise...
Jun 2015
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ABCD - Any Body Can Dance - 2
The only way a film like this can beat predictability is to deliver as many surprises as it can. But the writing department is the weakest : clichés abound as the characters whirl about frantically in an attempt to shed cardboard.
Jun 2015
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Hamari Adhuri Kahani
It purports to be an unusual triangle, and perhaps on paper, it may have come off as one. But this is a shockingly empty film, with the entire cast desperately ‘acting away’, and not one sentiment that feels real.
Jun 2015
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Dil Dhadakne Do
...in keeping with Zoya’s insistence on keeping it bubbly and bright, the characters do not cut and bleed, just burble and weep, and some crucial sharpness goes missing.
Jun 2015
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Ishqedarriyaan
Mahaakshay returns in a badly-written romance, which makes you wonder why anyone would want to repeat the same mistakes...
May 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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Tanu Weds Manu Returns
...we are too busy watching an actress stride through its ups and downs, earning each scene, and the film. I would buy a ticket for Kangana Ranaut.
May 2015
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Bombay Velvet
Lookswise, the film is pure gorgeousness. Trouble is, it is also largely overwrought and inert.
May 2015
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Piku
...sparks in moments, and I threw my head back and guffawed in a few. But the rest of it stays only mildly amusing. I wanted more motion in these motions.
May 2015
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Gabbar Is Back
...can Bollywood please, please stop making these tired, tiresome remakes? And let sleeping Gabbars lie?
May 2015
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Kaagaz Ke Fools
You keep wanting this film to ‘ho ja shuru’, but ‘Kaagaz Ke Fools’ doesn’t have the feet for it
Apr 2015
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Apr 2015
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Court
...a searing, unmissable film, and is one of the best you will see this year .
Apr 2015
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Margarita With A Straw
...nothing takes away from the beating heart of the film, which gives us a true heroine to root for, and a subject that needs to be out there, in the public domain, making itself heard.
Apr 2015
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Ek Paheli Leela
Why, in fact, pretend towards a plot, when all this film wants to do is to exploit its leading lady’s awe-inspiring stack? From as many angles as possible, the closer the better?
Apr 2015
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Dharam Sankat Mein
...opens with promise, bringing up concepts that need to be spoken about, but you soon realize that the film is not as radical as it could have been, which should have been clear with its choice of title.
Apr 2015
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Detective Byomkesh Bakshy!
...a film that filled me to the brim. It is the kind of film that I will recall and savour, flaws and all.
Apr 2015
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Hunterrr
...could have been a genuinely ‘adult’ comedy of manners, but it stays right where it begins, the phrase ‘coming-of-age’ functioning more as eliciting an embarrassed titter than reaching the goal-post.
Mar 2015
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NH10
It’s not that Anushka Sharma, who has also produced the film, is not trying hard. She is, and up to a point, she is in fine fettle. But at the point when she turns from flee to fight, I stopped believing.
Mar 2015
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Coffee Bloom
...becomes one of those films whose premise is interesting, but which is let down by the execution.
Mar 2015
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Dirty Politics
There was a time Ms Sherawat showed she had the potential to move past bimbette-dom. ‘Dirty Politics’, however, is not the film where she fulfills it.
Mar 2015
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Feb 2015
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Badlapur
...a mixed bag of a movie: it has a cracking set-up, a middle with the occasional unsettling prod, and an end which fizzles.
Feb 2015
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Roy
I haven’t seen something as fuzzy and dreary as ‘Roy’ in a long time : just what is Ranbir Kapoor doing in a movie like this?
Feb 2015
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MSG
Oh my eyes. I was at last night’s premiere of ‘MSG, Messenger Of God’, and I’m still to recover.
Feb 2015
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Shamitabh
There are a few moments which sparkle, and we laugh in acknowledgement. But the rest of it is overpowered by unabashed reverence.
Feb 2015