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Hawaizaada
This could have been a greatly imaginative flight of fancy, but it is anything but. For a film that is about the joy of flying, Hawaizaada fails to sprout any wings.
Jan 2015
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Khamoshiyan
There’s your new Bhatt Brothers film, which does exactly what you expect : plays out familiar erotic-horror-thriller ingredients on new, or almost-new faces.
Jan 2015
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Rahasya
...the result is a film that has only a couple of dark moments. The rest is an attempted mish-mash of a crime-of-coiled-passion- cum-police procedural, the confusion only serving to confound.
Jan 2015
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Jan 2015
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Baby
...the niggling discomfort caused by the pandering to stereotypes ( and the requisite nod to tokenism) colours our viewing. There’s also the fact that though this film looks always to be on the move, it frequently stalls.
Jan 2015
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Crazy Cukkad Family
...promises a lot of fun cock-a-doodle-do, but delivers much too much cockamamie, instead.
Jan 2015
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Jan 2015
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Take It Easy
With some easy moments, this film could have been easier to watch, but not when there is no break from loud background music, loud melodrama, and loud dialogues.
Jan 2015
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Ugly
In all the to-ing and fro-ing, it starts feeling too long, and too much, without the requisite emotional pay-off. There are three potentially gripping films in here : one would have been enough.
Dec 2014
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PK
What you need to re-purpose these themes is nuance, which, after a point, goes missing. This is where the Hirani magic recedes, and the film becomes commonplace.
Dec 2014
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Lingaa
...basically three hours of Rajini Saar doing his thing. And it is three hours of full-on `masti’ and ‘mazaa': no half-measures for the man who just has to walk across the screen in slo-mo to send his fans into paroxysms.
Dec 2014
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Badlapur Boys
You are engaged only when the game is on, and it appears to have been executed with some authenticity : that should have been the sole focus of the film.
Dec 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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Bhopal: A Prayer For Rain
What makes the film worth your time is the way it states, unequivocally, that the gas need not have leaked if Union Carbide and its employees and its votaries had come together to pull the plug in time.
Dec 2014
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Sulemani Keeda
A little more fun would have put a little more, much-needed spring into Sulemani Keeda...
Dec 2014
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Action Jackson
Even Rohit Shetty’s brand of brainlessness is better than this straight-up disgusting fare.
Dec 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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Ungli
...the most amateurish piece of work I’ve seen in a while, all fingers and thumbs.
Nov 2014
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Happy Ending
...piles up many more as it goes along, making the film a series of been-here, seen-this moments, and a wasted opportunity.
Nov 2014
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Nov 2014
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Nov 2014
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Happy New Year
And that is the problem with ‘Happy New Year’. Every where you turn, you find a scene, a line, a sequence that is familiar, from Farah’s own ‘Main Hoon Na’ and ‘Om Shanti Om’, and all the others it borrows from.
Oct 2014
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Sonali Cable
There are some vivid patches in this David-Goliath war, but overall consistency and credibility is a problem.
Oct 2014
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Tamanchey
...is Richa Chaddha, the girl who gave off such promise in ‘Oye Lucky’, and was so striking in ‘Gangs Of Wasseypur’ well and truly buried, only able to show us weak glimpses of what she can do?
Oct 2014
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Bang Bang!
Hrithik is the film’s eye candy and the prime shooter, all rolled into one, and gives you some amount of bang. The rest is burble.
Oct 2014
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Haider
...a gorgeous but choppy film that you cannot take your eyes off for fear of losing another exquisite piece of detailing; it is also one that fails to fully keep you with it.
Oct 2014
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Chaarfutiya Chhokare
Not one thing rings true. Not the leading lady, togged out in spotless shirts and slacks doing NGO-giri, not the young chokras, and not the bad ‘uns.
Sep 2014