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May 2013
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Ishaqzaade
It’s all in there, and yet the result is mixed : some of ‘Ishqzaade’ hits the spot, the rest is a drag.
May 2012
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Inkaar
...could have been truly radical. But it becomes a film that prefers to cop out, rather than deliver on the promise it held out so bravely in its initial passages.
Jan 2013
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Indu Sarkar
...doesn’t break fresh ground, even as it does bring alive some of the most disturbing aspects of the time. And we relive it, even as we cringe at the heavy melodrama, and the over-simplification of many of the issues the film raises.
Jul 2017
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India‘s Most Wanted
...the overall result is more a placid seen-it-before run-around than the edge-of-the-seat nail biter that it promises to be.
May 2019
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I Me Aur Main
This could have been a slap-up rom com. But the trouble with this good-looking movie is that it is patchily written and performed, and often feels contrived.
Mar 2013
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I M 24
There are some good, sincere moments in the film. But I expected something fresher from Saurabh Shukla, who is also the writer. And overall, more edge.
Aug 2012
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I Am Singh
This could have been a perfectly acceptable film, presumably meant to release around the tenth anniversary of 9/11. In Puneet Issar's hands, it becomes a series of unintentionally hilarious scenes.
Dec 2011
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Aug 2011
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Apr 2011
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Hunterrr
...could have been a genuinely ‘adult’ comedy of manners, but it stays right where it begins, the phrase ‘coming-of-age’ functioning more as eliciting an embarrassed titter than reaching the goal-post.
Mar 2015
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Humshakals
This one is way beyond. Idiocy is a gentle term for what is unleashed upon us. You can also call it a two-and-a- half hour show reel of plot-less, witless, joylessness.
Jun 2014
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Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhania
How about this lot in a film that toplines a smooth-as-butter, not-weighed-under- a- DDLJ-tribute plot?
Jul 2014
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Hum Tum Shabana
What do you do with a film which is purportedly a comedy and delivers not one single laugh?
Sep 2011
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Hum Tum Aur Ghost
The thing with films where leading men can see ghosts is that they need to be completely original. 'Hum Tum Aur Ghost' smacks a little of 'Ghost' , a little of 'The Sixth Sense' : the rest of it feels cobbled-together...
Mar 2010
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Housefull 4
Brain: Oh my god, it’s that time again. You are going for Housefull 4. Me, weakly: Yeah. Just doing my job. Brain: Well what can I say, you will never learn.
Oct 2019
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Jun 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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Apr 2010
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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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Hindi Medium
The flat writing which doesn’t quite know whose side to take — show up the parents desperate for English-medium schooling, or point fingers at those who are inept gatekeepers of these bastions, or both, by sentimentalizing those who live below the poverty line as `good’ and `noble’ — turns this film much less than it could have been.
May 2017
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Highway
I wanted more because it comes from a director who knows, or at least has known how to transfuse exuberance in love, and joy in sheer movement. ‘Highway’ is pretty but stagey.
Feb 2014
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Hide & Seek
...tries to be a Bollywood slasher film, but it doesn’t have the requisite thrill-and- chill factor.
Mar 2010
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May 2014
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Heroine
...a string of drab cliches, despite a strong performance from leading lady Kareena Kapoor.
Sep 2012
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Mar 2010
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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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Heartless
The only reason to watch this one was to see what Shekhar Suman would do in his directorial debut.
Feb 2014