-
The Attacks Of 26/11
It had the potential to be both smart procedural, and spiffy action, but '26/11' sinks somewhere in the middle.
Mar 2013
-
Dec 2019
-
Tere Bin Laden
...the film isn’t entirely the laugh riot that it sets out to be : the first half is slow and slack.
Jul 2010
-
Haunted
You are left feeling grateful for the couple of creepy moments the film manages, before sinking into sameness again.
May 2011
-
Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani
...a been-here, seen-this, much-too-long glossy creature, and not much else.
May 2013
-
Sep 2015
-
Mar 2010
-
Turning 30
..turns from a warm, welcome peek into that girl's life, a girl we are prepared to like, into a series of cliches.
Jan 2011
-
Baahubali 2: The Conclusion
...what took our breath away in 2015 is same old in 2017. Yes, it is bigger, but it is not better.
Apr 2017
-
Lucknow Central
But more than anything else, it is the mawkish sentimentality which overcomes the story-telling. When it is not that, then we find our fine conspirators being much too dramatic.
Sep 2017
-
Chance Pe Dance
...it is simply not new enough : Shahid/ Sameer’s thorny progress through tinsel-town is strewn with moments we’ve witnessed before. You also wish there was more energy in the sequences that fill in the spaces between the work-outs on the dance floor : the film gets lax too often.
Jan 2010
-
Singham
...works in bits and pieces, only when Devgn gets fully into his stride, squaring up to Raj as he hits the high notes. The rest is just stitched-up scenery.
Jul 2011
-
Hasee Toh Phasee
So many of the plot devices feel so contrived and cobbled together that you lose sight of the best things about the film. Some absolutely delightful sequences, and laugh-out-lines, get lost.
Feb 2014
-
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
-
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
-
Haraamkhor
...despite some strong moments, the film suffers from slightness and disjointedness: did the censorship process snip off more than we could chew? Was there more? A second film from the clearly talented Sharma will give us a clue.
Jan 2017
-
Bhavesh Joshi Superhero
There is a film in here. Or should I say, would have been, if Bhavesh Joshi Superhero had been less of a cobbled-together-from-many-influences overlong yarn. And fresher, sharper, clearer.
Jun 2018
-
2.0
...is dull as ditchwater in the first half, perking up a little in the second, with a half-way watchable Akshay, and a Rajini coming into his own right towards the end, for a bit. There are some oh-wow moments, but on the whole, the film is not worth all the sound and fury.
Nov 2018
-
PM Narendra Modi
As a bio-pic, it inhabits muddled, post-truth territory. As a hagiography though, genuflecting at the altar of the man, it’s perfect. It’s uncritical, unquestioning, high on rhetoric. And there’s nothing accidental about it.
May 2019
-
Pati Patni Aur Woh
Our ‘pati’ may have redeemed himself, and the ‘patni’ and ‘woh’ may have lifted the film somewhat, but to wish for good taste in a comedy dealing with straying husbands and wives-and-other-women-in-holding patterns is no laughing matter.
Dec 2019
-
Ragini MMS
...is strange mix of Hollywood horror influences and old-style Bollywood ghost stories.
May 2011
-
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
-
War Chhod Na Yaar
Pity because the theme, fronted by the two lead actors, had the potential to be a zinger.
Oct 2013
-
Kapoor & Sons
...film like this one, with a nice sense of place and more-than-competent performers, could have been that rare Bollywood thing : a grown-up drama featuring grown-ups
Mar 2016
-
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
-
Babumoshai Bandookbaaz
...the squelchy pulp fiction aspect, and the attempts at black comedy are not quite enough to make this a film on its own.
Aug 2017
-
De Dana Dan
An hour into ‘De Dana Dan’, you are at the exact same point you were the last time Priydarshan got a bunch of people to chase their tails in an enclosed space: struggling to keep your eyes open.
Nov 2009
-
For Real
...sets out to mine the rocky terrain between rowing adults and how it impacts children; it succeeds only partially.
Sep 2010
-
Love Express
...a simple, occasionally charming, and highly improbable romantic movie.
Jun 2011