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Helicopter Eela
...is so saddled with banal story-telling, stretched sub-plots and exaggerated performances, including and especially from the lead actress, that it never really takes off.
Oct 2018
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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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Satellite Shankar
This very Forrest Gump-ish intent could have been better realized if the plot had been less simplistic, and the lead actor a little more versatile.
Nov 2019
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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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Happy Ending
...piles up many more as it goes along, making the film a series of been-here, seen-this moments, and a wasted opportunity.
Nov 2014
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Rustom
How could the filmmakers have turned a crime of such high passion into such a dreary piece of work?
Aug 2016
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Aashayein
There a few moments when your eyes well up, but it’s not enough in a two hour long film.
Aug 2010
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Isi Life Mein
For a production house that’s been struggling with irrelevance ( it's last one on 'prem vivah' sank), 'Isi Life Mein' is not the way to go.
Dec 2010
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Kucch Luv Jaisaa
Middle-class mummy meets low class hood : the central idea of 'Kuchh Luv Jaisa' is not such a bad thing, but plays itself out clunkily.
May 2011
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Take It Easy
With some easy moments, this film could have been easier to watch, but not when there is no break from loud background music, loud melodrama, and loud dialogues.
Jan 2015
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One Night Stand
For a film which wants to strike a blow for feminism and sexual freedom, there are some troubling misogynistic touches about ‘hot’ secretaries, and ‘stay-at-home’ wives. Careful, your slip is showing.
May 2016
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Housefull 2
Basically, Sajid in full flow, celebrating juvenalia. No plot (don’t be silly), decibel levels cranked high, situations careering from one gag to another, characters spewing rapidfire lines which are meant to make you guffaw.
Apr 2012
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Mastram
The re-creation of an era, and why this series became so successful, which could have lent the film some heft, is wholly missing from the story.
May 2014
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Bangistan
The film finds its laughs in the odd moment, but comes off, over all, flat and tepid.
Aug 2015
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Dear Zindagi
Both Shah Rukh Khan and Alia Bhatt show spark but the film needed a plot to hinge the performances. Too many dialogues that say too little take the joy away from the film.
Nov 2016
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Behen Hogi Teri
The only element worth looking at in this film, apart from the dependable Kamat, is the rock-solid Rao. If he was given a better co-star than the strictly one-note Haasan, this might have turned out to be a better film.
Jun 2017
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Blank
The trick to making us swallow improbable ploys is slick treatment, and keeping everything moving chop-chop. On both counts, the film largely draws a blank.
May 2019
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Nov 2019
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Break Ke Baad
...is the latest in the long line of recent Bollywood rom coms which starts off with what must have seemed like a good idea on paper, but comes off looking and feeling lame.
Dec 2010
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Aug 2011
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Ajab Gazabb Love
Despite all the foreign locations glitter, this plays out like a flat, meandering TV comedy. What is the 'ajab’, and where’s the ‘gazabb’?
Oct 2012
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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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Total Siyapaa
This could have been hilarious. But all it does is drag its feet through unfunny, stretched situations.
Mar 2014
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Mohenjo Daro
Hrithik Roshan can't rescue this film. Ashutosh Gowariker makes it bigger but not better. Pooja Hegde needs a better debut. Mohenjo Daro is a plod.
Aug 2016
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Commando 2
...nothing can be worse for an out-and-out-actioner than to be shackled by sarkaari slogans.
Mar 2017
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Mubarakan
Post-interval, the film’s funny bone gets lost. It becomes a long, maudlin harangue on family values and good sisters and brothers, while slipping in a few distasteful jokes about wives and women.
Jul 2017