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Meri Pyaari Bindu
...proves that Bollyland romance still hasn’t got over its ‘500 Days Of Summer’ overhang.
May 2017
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Mere Pyare Prime Minister
...the attempt at balancing the serious with the jokey sits uneasy. And there’s no getting away from the all-hail-the-PM rah-rah-ness...
Mar 2019
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Mere Dad Ki Maruti
At its best it is placid, and sort of middling, this Mere Dad Ki Maruti.
Mar 2013
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Mere Brother Ki Dulhan
...a strictly-by-the-template rom com. Not any old rom com, but a Yashraj one.
Sep 2011
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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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Maximum
...brings no novelty to the viewer and ends up being just another hackneyed affair.
Jun 2012
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Maximum
Turns out to be a dampener. Not because it doesn’t have interesting actors. Nor because it doesn’t have interesting situations. But because it comes off merely as 'Seher' redux, minus its power.
Jun 2012
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Mausam
...starts like a dewy-fresh spring morning, where everything is familiar yet new. It then wilts, autumnal overtones taking over. And then never quite recovers, falling into a dreary never-ending winter.
Sep 2011
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Matru Ki Bijlee Ka Mandola
The film passed me by in the first hour. It enticed me back again in the second half. But not enough to make me forget the inert prologue, which is minus drama, which is Bhardawaj’s true forte.
Jan 2013
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Mastram
The re-creation of an era, and why this series became so successful, which could have lent the film some heft, is wholly missing from the story.
May 2014
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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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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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Mary Kom
...it also gets right the main act : Mary Kom, inspirational world champion, shaking a glove.
Sep 2014
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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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Mardaani 2
We need more strong female leads in our movies. We just don’t need them to be surrounded by misogyny and dialogues which lead the audience to cheer when the men mouth lines which aim low.
Dec 2019
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Mardaani
The resolution, showcasing bloody vigilante-ism, is problematic. Is that the only definition of ‘mardaani’, and is that something to be celebrated? Something more pragmatic, and yes, more real, would have served its consistently watchable leading lady, better.
Aug 2014
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Mard Ko Dard Nahi Hota
Mard works best when it is klutzy and bouncy and light on its feet, and those are the parts which help us go past the occasional flatness: many people in the theater where I saw it were laughing out loud.
Mar 2019
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Mantra
Rajat Kapoor delivers a stand-out performance as a man struggling in the changing economic scenario but is failed by the uneven film.
Mar 2017
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Mantostaan
...the film fails in translation: it is a forced construct, and comes off flat and stagey, both in treatment and performance.
May 2017
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Manto
There is a gap, a curious distance, between the vision and the execution, and much of the film, including Nawaz, resides in it.
Sep 2018
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Manmarziyaan
You enjoy the initial exhilaration born out of breathless passion as the winsome boy and girl engage in the age-old dance of desire. And then they become exhausting. As does the film.
Sep 2018
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May 2014
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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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Manikarnika
But what keeps us with the film is Rani Ranaut, who in her best moments, owns her part, the narrative, and the screen.
Jan 2019
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Malang
Here’s a film which is a perfect example of how Bollywood struggles with creating a plot in which every single thread counts.
Feb 2020
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Main Tera Hero
The good Govinda fronted for him, David used his superlative editing skills to keep up a rat-a-tat-pace, and we all happily rolled down the aisles. But it’s been a while since Dhawan hit his stride.
Apr 2014
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Main Aur Mr. Riight
Sobti gets the hungry-actor look right, but the smiley Treasurywala needed to be deeper. So did the film.
Dec 2014
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Oct 2015
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Mahayoddha Rama
...my expectations that it was going to be a delightfully subversive take on the epic were dashed almost as soon as it started.
Nov 2016