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Hawaizaada
This could have been a greatly imaginative flight of fancy, but it is anything but. For a film that is about the joy of flying, Hawaizaada fails to sprout any wings.
Jan 2015
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Hawaa Hawaai
...has a big beating heart, but you wish it had been a better film: it trundles on, leaps up intermittently, but doesn’t fly.
May 2014
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Haunted
You are left feeling grateful for the couple of creepy moments the film manages, before sinking into sameness again.
May 2011
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Hate Story IV
The plot is a steady stream of hot bods. And acting, what’s that? The film has no ambitions that-a-way, so there.
Mar 2018
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Hate Story
...what we get is an oomphy, oozy femme who is uninhibitedly fatale, and capable of steaming things up, but stuck in a story which starts off as credible but all too soon plunges us into a pit of disbelief.
Apr 2012
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Haseena Parkar
...is a long and winding and weary telling of a story which could have been something, but comes off merely as a tired re-tread of tired re-treads.
Sep 2017
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Hasee Toh Phasee
So many of the plot devices feel so contrived and cobbled together that you lose sight of the best things about the film. Some absolutely delightful sequences, and laugh-out-lines, get lost.
Feb 2014
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Haraamkhor
...despite some strong moments, the film suffers from slightness and disjointedness: did the censorship process snip off more than we could chew? Was there more? A second film from the clearly talented Sharma will give us a clue.
Jan 2017
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Happy Phirr Bhag Jayegi
The sequel tries for the same mix of muddled-headed but large-hearted Punjabis, crooked Chinese, a song or two, and a series of sequences which are meant to be funny but are most flat and dull.
Aug 2018
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Happy New Year
And that is the problem with ‘Happy New Year’. Every where you turn, you find a scene, a line, a sequence that is familiar, from Farah’s own ‘Main Hoon Na’ and ‘Om Shanti Om’, and all the others it borrows from.
Oct 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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Happy Bhag Jayegi
...is good for a few laughs but then falls victim to weak writing and never realises its full potential.
Aug 2016
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Hamid
...eschews complexity for simplicity, for the right reasons. Eight-year-olds can be God’s messengers: Bhagwaan ke asli bhakt, Allah ke bande. Yes, they can.
Mar 2019
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Hamari Adhuri Kahani
It purports to be an unusual triangle, and perhaps on paper, it may have come off as one. But this is a shockingly empty film, with the entire cast desperately ‘acting away’, and not one sentiment that feels real.
Jun 2015
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Halkaa
Nila Madhab Panda gives us a film about urban wretchedness in easily digestible drawing-room gollops.
Sep 2018
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Half Girlfriend
The book, despite its shortcomings, feels more an organic whole: the film, which was what the book was always going to be, tries too hard.
May 2017
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Haider
...a gorgeous but choppy film that you cannot take your eyes off for fear of losing another exquisite piece of detailing; it is also one that fails to fully keep you with it.
Oct 2014
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Nov 2010
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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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Gully Boy
...this is a film to enjoy. In today’s India, to bring a Murad and Safeena, their Muslim-ness a matter-of-fact statement, into centre-stage, to give traction to those who live on the wrong side of the tracks, is an act of bravery. ‘Inka time aa gaya’. Rap along.
Feb 2019
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Mar 2014
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Guest Iin London
Do you think crude jokes should be strewn liberally in your weekly flick fix? Should a gag, abysmally executed in the first place, be stretched out like a rubber band to keep you rolling in the aisles?Then Guest Iin London is just the ticket for you.
Jul 2017
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Guddu Rangeela
Kapoor demonstrates a growing assuredness, which is clear in the robust, cracking portions of the film: all he now needs is a solid hole-less plot with lines to match.
Jul 2015
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Great Grand Masti
...offensively unfunny, grating thing (nothing ‘great’ about it) which should not be allowed to call itself a film.
Jul 2016
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Grand Masti
No one expects films of this sort – boys and their toys – to be sophisticated or intelligent. By definition, they are meant to be crass and tasteless. But then filmmakers getting into this should go the whole hog, and give us what they promise: there was nothing adult in what I saw, only pubescent groping.
Sep 2013
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Gour Hari Dastaan
...it has all the elements that could have made it all this and more, but it comes off flat and dull.
Aug 2015
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Good Newwz
...so refreshing to have something so out-of-the-box (another word for ‘risky’) come out of an industry whose default option is to play safe by churning out tired, jaded sequels of tired, jaded super-starry vehicles.
Dec 2019
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Golmaal 3
...the laugh-out-loud stretches are few and far between, mainly because we've seen these same guys doing the same things before, and also because the gags are running out of steam quicker.
Nov 2010