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Kesari
...despite its predictable arcs, the outcome which we already know, and its length, we stay with the film.
Mar 2019
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Kedarnath
In trying to please everyone, the film loses edge, and leads to a tepid cop-out. It’s a weepie minus the tears.
Dec 2018
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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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Karwaan
...is aiming for an easy, offhand charm, and we get that only in bits and pieces, especially when Irrfan hits his stride on occasion, or when Dulquer proves just how good he can be...
Aug 2018
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Karthik Calling Karthik
...there’s really no steady progression, just staccato sequences where Karthik ( Akhtar) and Shonali ( Padukone) go from happy to fractious within nanoseconds.
Feb 2010
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Kapoor & Sons
Shakun Batra's biggest achievement is that he has etched each of the central characters with precision.
Mar 2016
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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
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Kamaal Dhamaal Malamaal
...a film that should have been wrapped up quickly and deftly, the qualities that Priyan once had, takes over three excruciating hours.
Sep 2012
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Kalank
The whole feels like a giant set, stately and ponderous and minus impact; the characters all costumed and perfumed and largely life-less, sparking only in bits and pieces. As a character says, two-thirds into the film, ‘yeh kissa yahin nipat jaata’.
Apr 2019
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Kadvi Hawa
You also wish the film was tighter: it feels like a stretch even at 100 minutes.
Nov 2017
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Kabir Singh
To watch a character like Kabir Singh do this thing for nearly three hours places the viewer squarely into a place of conflict. Here’s a fellow who thinks going through life yelling, shouting, snorting-and-drinking on the job, assuaging his raging libido with crass directness, basically being a sexist we-will-not-use-the-word-that-follows-naturally-here, is an acceptable thing.
Jun 2019
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Apr 2014
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Kaamyaab
...is a moving, consistently engaging portrait of an artist as a weathering, weathered man.
Mar 2020
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Kaalakaandi
Kalaakaandi is a Marathi term for ‘mayhem’, but there’s not enough of it, resulting in the film being more a no-stakes stroll, rather than a breathless roller-coaster.
Jan 2018
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Kaagaz Ke Fools
You keep wanting this film to ‘ho ja shuru’, but ‘Kaagaz Ke Fools’ doesn’t have the feet for it
Apr 2015
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Kaagaz
...could have been an important film. But the plot is littered with clichés, and comes off distressingly dated...
Jan 2021
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Kaabil
Hrithik does all the heavy lifting and remains the only bright spot in this dispirited mess of a movie. He still has the moves. What he needs is a plot.
Jan 2017
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Junglee
There’s not one ounce of complexity in the movie, unspooling in such a linear fashion that even two-year-olds would have no difficulty in understanding it. Maybe that’s the demographic the film will appeal to, with its bright colours and straight-forward story-line, and a smiling hero who can take on an army of scowling bad guys single-handedly.
Mar 2019
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Jugni
The film turns clunky in other places, the first-time inexperience showing, but we don’t really mind, because it has that rare thing : a soul, and of course, song. I came out humming.
Jan 2016
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Judwaa 2
For a comedy whose plot would make a wafer look thin, the lines have to be razor sharp, and delivered in just the right rhythm. This is where the director falters, even as his son tries his best to give us two for the price of one on the other end of the screen.
Sep 2017
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Judgemental Hai Kya
It’s been a long time since I have seen something so determinedly experimental, so inventive, despite its flaws, to come out of Bollywood...
Jul 2019
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Jolly LLB 2
...is a pure win. It has a solid plot, a strong sense of time and place and rhythm, and a message that is delivered without sanctimony.
Feb 2017
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Aug 2012