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Mere Dad Ki Maruti
At its best it is placid, and sort of middling, this Mere Dad Ki Maruti.
Mar 2013
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Saare Jahaan Se Mehnga
The film has been written zippily by people who know this world. It looks and feels authentic, minus exaggeration. And the actors look as if they belong.
Mar 2013
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Saheb Biwi Aur Gangster Returns
The 'return' is a better film, but it stops short of being excellent. The smooth build-up in the first half leads to a confused, too-crowded second, which lets the film, and us, down.
Mar 2013
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The Attacks Of 26/11
It had the potential to be both smart procedural, and spiffy action, but '26/11' sinks somewhere in the middle.
Mar 2013
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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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Jayanta Bhai Ki Luv Story
I believe Oberoi has it in him. Because when he is in earnest, he is an actor that can be watched. But he needs a much better film.
Feb 2013
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Feb 2013
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ABCD - Any Body Can Dance
This film had the potential, but it needed both sharper direction and dancing, to maximize it.
Feb 2013
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David
...speaks of a new kind of Bollywood which doesn't want to be slavish to stars or formulae. But it also speaks of a filmmaking which isn't quite as accomplished as it would like to be, or should be.
Feb 2013
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Vishwaroop
This is a fill it-shut it-forget it film, whose big budget slickness never overpowers it, and which holds you while it lasts.
Feb 2013
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Feb 2013
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Race 2
...looks exactly like 'Race'. Which may have been intentional because plush locations and pretty playthings and buff men are very much Abbas Mustan trademarks. But all it does is cause a dismally same-same feeling.
Jan 2013
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Mumbai Mirror
I’ve just finished watching ‘Mumbai Mirror’ and can’t make up my mind : was it so bad that it was plain vanilla bad, or was it head-clutchingly awful?
Jan 2013
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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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Matru Ki Bijlee Ka Mandola
The film passed me by in the first hour. It enticed me back again in the second half. But not enough to make me forget the inert prologue, which is minus drama, which is Bhardawaj’s true forte.
Jan 2013
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Rajdhani Express
Someone has convinced Leander Paes that he can act, and that someone has clearly done a great job, because if he/she hadn’t, this film wouldn’t have been made.
Jan 2013
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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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Dabangg 2
Because he is being Salman, whose thing of `don’t take me seriously, just have fun’ takes us into a zone where all of `Dabangg 2’ and its settings and characters become comic-book.
Dec 2012
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The Last Act
...more consistency in quality would have made ‘The Final Act’ a more solid, better -realised act.
Dec 2012
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Khiladi 786
In the end, I was left looking at a straw to clutch. Any little thing. I found, dear viewer, none. Not. A. One.
Dec 2012
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Talaash
...starts out as a smart, well-written noir-ish thriller, and then slips between the tracks. Pity about the second half.
Nov 2012
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Son Of Sardaar
The jokes in ‘Son Of Sardaar’ start off as a one-time laugh, which quickly turn tiresome because they are pressed into service in a loop.
Nov 2012
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Jab Tak Hai Jaan
...what the title manages to say pithily takes the fllm nearly three very long hours, and the pay-off isn’t as sweet as it should have been.
Nov 2012
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Nov 2012
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Luv Shuv Tey Chicken Khurana
It's nice, all this 'pinni' and 'parandi' and 'pind', and these 'hum log', and just that.
Nov 2012
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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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Chakravyuh
...packaged in a trying-to-be-palatable-to-all plot, which works intermittently in the first half, and not too well in the stretched second.
Oct 2012
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Student Of The Year
If this is 'Ishq wala love’, I ask, where is the 'film waali film', the 'KJo waali’ film? This is all show, so very little tell.
Oct 2012