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Jai Ho
...could have been a pure and simple `Dabangg 3’. It’s not. It’s not even a no-holds-barred South remake either, despite its quarts of spurting blood and broken bones. Jai’s ‘aam aadmi’ catches traction only a moment. In the rest, he goes back to snarling and kicking and scowling.
Jan 2014
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Jan 2014
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Miss Lovely
Ahluwalia gives us marvelous atmosphere, terrific detailing, just the right grunge and grain in the characters and an unexpected emotional punch: this is a film I want to embrace.
Jan 2014
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Yaariyan
...seems to have been cobbled together from ‘Main Hoon Na’ and ‘F A L T U’, and ‘Student Of The Year’, even going back to ‘Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikandar’.
Jan 2014
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Dedh Ishqiya
There is much to be liked in the film, and I wish all of it had been as good as the scintillating bits.
Jan 2014
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Jan 2014
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What The Fish
This is yet another in the line of the Quirky Delhi Film, a genre that has long run out of steam. The novelty lasts for a few minutes. After which it's all downhill.
Dec 2013
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Club 60
I would recommend 'Club 60', because it brings into the frame an age group euphemistically called the 'silvers', and by touching a chord with its performances.
Dec 2013
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Ram-leela
I enjoyed the lovers, and their ram-leela: if only the film had been more ras, not goli-leela, more roses than guns.
Nov 2013
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Rajjo
...the film piles up every single tiresome cliché from all similar films in the past, while telling us nothing we want to know. Or see.
Nov 2013
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Satya 2
You want to ask RGV: what was he thinking? Or has he abandoned it altogether now?
Nov 2013
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Krrish 3
...is a superhero film. It is also a throwback to the creaky family entertainers Bollywood used to make. The hero has special powers, sure, but also a loving daddy, a lovely wifey, an attractive moll and a villain with severe daddy issues.
Nov 2013
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Mickey Virus
...a film that holds attention for some time, before it gets stretched into a too-long second act.
Oct 2013
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Boss
For all intents and purposes, this could be called Rowdy 2, because Akshay does exactly what he does in that earlier film, but with different co-stars, and a plot that is totally subservient to labelling him Boss every two minutes.
Oct 2013
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War Chhod Na Yaar
Pity because the theme, fronted by the two lead actors, had the potential to be a zinger.
Oct 2013
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Besharam
Besharam is not a film. It is Bollywood's brightest young star stooping to conquer, in search of the mass market.
Oct 2013
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Prague
...weighed under this heavy story and all its twists that aspire for meaning. You keep looking for something to hold on to, and you keep coming up empty.
Sep 2013
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Warning
There are a couple of scary moments, but no relentless stretches of heart-in-mouth terror, the kind that binds this kind of thriller.
Sep 2013
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Phata Poster Nikhla Hero
...is meant to make us laugh, but ends up making us groan instead.
Sep 2013
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Sep 2013
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Grand Masti
No one expects films of this sort – boys and their toys – to be sophisticated or intelligent. By definition, they are meant to be crass and tasteless. But then filmmakers getting into this should go the whole hog, and give us what they promise: there was nothing adult in what I saw, only pubescent groping.
Sep 2013
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John Day
The trouble is that there is no coherent plot to hang all of this on, it's just a series of jumbled scenes with too many characters walking in and out, or limping in and out, or being shot at and huddling about in bloody heaps.
Sep 2013
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Shuddh Desi Romance
Post-interval, there's a discernible dip in energy, and the film gets stretched and contrived.
Sep 2013
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Zanjeer
There really is nothing in this film that catches your eye except for a few set pieces, and a new male face which could make some space for himself if he gets something better.
Sep 2013
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Satyagraha
This is a film whose anthem is 'Janta Rocks'. Which sort of goes with 'Politics Lite', doesn't it?
Aug 2013