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Daawat-e-Ishq
...Anupam Kher gives the film its only moments of honesty. The rest is an unpalatable snoozefest.
Sep 2014
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Daawat-e-Ishq
...is bubblegum-y and air-headed and good-natured, and its biggest strength is that it keeps it consistent, becoming one of those films that over-delivers precisely because it under-promises.
Sep 2014
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Finding Fanny
...a slight watch, occasionally pleasurable, but not entirely memorable.
Sep 2014
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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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Aug 2014
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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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Katiyabaaz
The subject could have easily become a turgid documentary. But the treatment makes it much more interesting...
Aug 2014
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Entertainment
...it is dull and loud, with a brow so lowered that it reaches the floor.
Aug 2014
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Kick
We know that a Salman film is created solely to display his popular quirks and his one-liners and his ‘andaaz’, all of which are designed to send his fans into a swoon.
Jul 2014
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Amit Sahni Ki List
...the story never really shakes off its tropes, and burst forth into its own.
Jul 2014
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Pizza
...will give you some nice chills, and a little twist in the end, which is not as a surprise as it should have been.
Jul 2014
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Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhania
How about this lot in a film that toplines a smooth-as-butter, not-weighed-under- a- DDLJ-tribute plot?
Jul 2014
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Jul 2014
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Jul 2014
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Ek Villain
Suri is an innate story-teller, and can keep things moving. All he needs is a strong, all-the-way credible, original plot.
Jun 2014
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Humshakals
This one is way beyond. Idiocy is a gentle term for what is unleashed upon us. You can also call it a two-and-a- half hour show reel of plot-less, witless, joylessness.
Jun 2014
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Fugly
...begins with a hint of promise, and it could have gone down some paths less travelled. But it meanders, and loses its way.
Jun 2014
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Filmistaan
There are a few enjoyable moments in ‘Filmistaan’, but the potential is never fully realized.
Jun 2014
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Holiday
When will the South ‘masala’ remake find a decent burial? It is long past its sell-by date.
Jun 2014
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Kuku Mathur Ki Jhand Ho Gayi
The film ends up being a strictly average, and mostly bland, slice of Delhi life.
May 2014
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Citylights
...a grim yarn which moves you intermittently, but whose patchiness is papered over by a fine performance from Rao.
May 2014
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May 2014
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Kochadaiiyaan
...the outcome is so spectacularly dull that it overwhelms the most technologically advanced cinematography witnessed in Indian cinema.
May 2014
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Children Of War
There should have been more history and more competence in ‘Children Of War’ for it to be the film it had set out to be.
May 2014
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The Xpose
The murder mystery set in the backdrop of big bad tinseltown should have been pacy and cheesy and racy, but ends up being a bit of a drag. Despite all the fun and games.
May 2014
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Khwaabb
It’s tough to make a true-blue sports film, minus song and dance and melodrama, in Bollywood. This one has tried.
May 2014