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Aug 2013
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Madholal - Keep Walking
What's nice about the film is the way it depicts an ordinary life made endurable by little things...What'’s not so nice is the disappearance of the lightness of touch which makes these familiar elements enjoyable.
Aug 2010
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Made In China
What does Made In China want to be ? A double-meaning-dialogue-laden romp-in-the-sheets, or a go-to sex manual for repressed Indians? It veers, alas, towards the pulpit.
Oct 2019
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Madam Chief Minister
This film had potential. It could have redressed a shameful lack.
Jan 2021
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Jul 2016
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Machine
...is the kind of film the director-duo would have got away in the 90s. Or maybe not. Even the squelchiest of plots need some acting chops and charisma: none of the young people, including the debutant Burmawla, is in possession of these crucial ingredients that makes a star.
Mar 2017
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Maatr
Crass, cringe-inducing and downright sordid, this Raveena Tandon rape-and-revenge thriller makes you ask just one question -- who writes this stuff?
Apr 2017
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M.S. Dhoni
This film had potential to present us with the recent Indian cricketing story, warts and all. Sadly it’s more hagiography than biography: the cricketer is reduced to a being singing-dancing Bollywood hero rather than a top-flight cricketer, a master strategist, and a captain who led from the front.
Sep 2016
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Luv Shuv Tey Chicken Khurana
It's nice, all this 'pinni' and 'parandi' and 'pind', and these 'hum log', and just that.
Nov 2012
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Luv Ka The End
...there's so little else in the film that it all flattens out in an alarming sit-com like fashion, as this very now film is reduced to using the creakiest comic devices from old-style Bollywood—itching powder, and laxatives.
May 2011
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Lupt
It’s meant to be a ‘supernatural horror’ flick, but what it is, is plain horrible.
Nov 2018
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Luka Chuppi
If you really want to kick the bigots where it hurts, you have to do it early and hard. To lament about the horrors of live-in relationships through the film, for a last-minute turnaround live-and-let-live-speech, is not enough.
Mar 2019
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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
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Feb 2012
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Love Sonia
More focus on what happens to the girls when they are yanked from that life would have made Love Sonia fresher, and given the characters more to play with. That is not something we see too often, and there is a tiny glimpse of it in the film. The rest of it is same-old.
Sep 2018
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Love Sex Aur Dhokha
...is a breakthrough film : the portrayal of love and sex in Hindi cinema may never be the same again.
Mar 2010
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Love Games
Some of the smooching looks professional, about the only thing that does. As for the rest, bye bye, two hours, which will never come back.
Apr 2016
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Love Express
...a simple, occasionally charming, and highly improbable romantic movie.
Jun 2011
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Jun 2011
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Love Breakups Zindagi
...presents characters that are flat, in situations which are flatter.
Oct 2011
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Love Aaj Kal
I came away with a feeling of being comprehensively let down: where has the craft gone, and where, indeed, the heart?
Feb 2020
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Lootera
It has left me with some indelible scenes which are sheer poetry, but this is one of those films that I wanted to like much more than I did.
Jul 2013
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London Dreams
For this film to have soared, it needed to have been a little more untethered, a little more free-spirited.
Nov 2009
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Feb 2013
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Lipstick Under My Burkha
It is a film to be celebrated. Take a bow, producer Prakash Jha, director Alankrita Srivastava, and the entire cast and crew. And now excuse me while I go looking for my deepest, reddest lipstick.
Jul 2017
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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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Life Ki Toh Lag Gayi
I went in expecting nothing, and I was rewarded by a film that surprised me despite some predictable patches, and kept me engaged.
Apr 2012
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Life Goes On
Some subtlety would have done this film, which had potential, a world of good. The performers strive to be credible, particularly the seasoned trio of Tagore-Karnad- Puri. It's a pity the film lets them down.
Mar 2011