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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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Dharam Sankat Mein
...opens with promise, bringing up concepts that need to be spoken about, but you soon realize that the film is not as radical as it could have been, which should have been clear with its choice of title.
Apr 2015
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Welcome Back
...the movie clomps about, looking for the laughs. And failing, mostly, to find them.
Sep 2015
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Ghayal Once Again
Sunny the actor is still a lethal weapon and can blow his opponent all the way across the room. Sunny the director should just get out his way.
Feb 2016
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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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Game Over
Clearly, Pannu has worked hard, and there are a couple of genuinely scary moments, but the rest of it is too stretched: even the 102 minute run time feels too long.
Jun 2019
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Gali Gali Chor Hai
This could have been a film with bite to it, given that we are all so exercised these days with corruption and its high-profile fighters and shameless purveyors. But satire is not Bollywood’s thing.
Feb 2012
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Raaz Reboot
The shenanigans of Emraan Hashmi, Gaurav Arora and Kriti Kharbanda are supposed to be scary. What you get instead is unintended humour.
Sep 2016
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Batla House
...the trouble with Batla House is that the whole film acts like a disclaimer...
Aug 2019
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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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Double Dhamaal
You have to admire the film for one thing though : it sticks unswervingly to its promise of delivering loudness and crassness.
Jun 2011
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Mod
Takia is her familiar wholesome-girl-next-door but has to shoulder too much of the film, and Rannvijay is one-tone.
Oct 2011
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Bajatey Raho
...the film turns out to be clichéd and largely choppy: an idea by itself is never enough, it's what you do with it that counts.
Jul 2013
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Jul 2015
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Bajirao Mastani
...had the potential to be a terrific historical. What it ends up being is a costume drama: too many costumes, too much revved-up, empty drama, and too little story.
Dec 2015
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Force 2
The way it plays out, ‘Force 2’ forces us to stay far too much in the been here-seen that territory.
Nov 2016
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Phhir
...a 'punarjanam' film, featuring a disappearing wife, a distraught husband, and a smashing medium, and how everything falls into place right towards the end.
Aug 2011
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Dec 2011
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Dhadak
Khatter has a mobile, expressive face. He is a natural. Kapoor, though, has a hard time emoting. On their own, they each have a couple of scenes which they work: together, there is no zing, no `zingaaat’.
Jul 2018
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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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Tees Maar Khan
...is hobbled by poor, tasteless writing, and a leading man who seems to have lost his sense of comic timing.
Dec 2010
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Table No. 21
No suspense, no menace, no nothing, just a stretched out costume party in sunny Fiji.
Jan 2013
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Main Tera Hero
The good Govinda fronted for him, David used his superlative editing skills to keep up a rat-a-tat-pace, and we all happily rolled down the aisles. But it’s been a while since Dhawan hit his stride.
Apr 2014
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Saaho
Everything a thriller needs is in here, and you settle down, fully prepared for a non-stop, breathless, firing-from-all-cylinders ride. But Saaho turns out to be a damp squib.
Aug 2019
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Feb 2013
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Chor Chor Super Chor
Turning the tables on someone usually is a fun thing. But the execution is amateurish, so is most of the acting, even if Dobriyal keeps some of it humming.
Aug 2013
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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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Jun 2016
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Tum Bin 2
Two guys, one girl, and the mess they can create amongst themselves may be the oldest story in the book, but it can quite easily be refreshed given the right story and treatment. Unlike the first one which brought these elements together nicely, it doesn’t happen here, despite some well executed moments.
Nov 2016