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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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Once Upon A Time In Mumbai Dobaara
After all the shoot-outs and bang-bangs are over, you are left with a film which leaves you with so little new that you wonder if there's any juice left in this style of retro gangsta flick.
Aug 2013
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Gunday
In the name of plot, we get a mash-up of many popular blockbusters, several of them belonging to Yashraj, the producers of this one. In the name of acting, we get pumped up beefcake and one number plumped-lip eye candy.
Feb 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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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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Amit Sahni Ki List
...the story never really shakes off its tropes, and burst forth into its own.
Jul 2014
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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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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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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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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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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