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Jai Mummy Di
The title is apt, and make you smile. Sadly, the spark doesn’t percolate into the film, which comes off banal and dull.
Jan 2020
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Yamla Pagla Deewana
...the loudest set of dialogues and the most vacuous set of characters we've been confronted with in a while.
Jan 2011
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Aug 2014
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Miss Tanakpur Haazir Ho
This could have been a sharp black comedy with a strong sense of place , mining its superb absurdist premise...
Jun 2015
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Azhar
...an inept ‘tamasha’, not very different from the stuff Bollywood churns out, the cricket just the superstructure for tired song-and-dance and melodrama, in living rooms and court-rooms.
May 2016
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Miley Naa Miley Hum
The kindest thing I can say about 'Miley Naa Miley Tum' is that it is not a disaster.
Nov 2011
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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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One By Two
This is a case of missed opportunities. Trying for likeability is tough when the film is saddled with a listless plot and pace.
Jan 2014
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Children Of War
There should have been more history and more competence in ‘Children Of War’ for it to be the film it had set out to be.
May 2014
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Sonali Cable
There are some vivid patches in this David-Goliath war, but overall consistency and credibility is a problem.
Oct 2014
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Tubelight
...when the main act isn’t convincing, the film becomes just like the title: mostly flicker with a little late glow.
Jun 2017
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Players
...flat script, flatter action scenes, and the flattest bunch of actors, all milling about in one film.
Jan 2012
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Teri Meri Kahaani
...there is not one jot of freshness in either the idea or the execution. So it makes no difference if it is kal aur aaj because the lead pair can conjure up nothing new...
Jun 2012
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Besharam
Besharam is not a film. It is Bollywood's brightest young star stooping to conquer, in search of the mass market.
Oct 2013
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Machine
...is the kind of film the director-duo would have got away in the 90s. Or maybe not. Even the squelchiest of plots need some acting chops and charisma: none of the young people, including the debutant Burmawla, is in possession of these crucial ingredients that makes a star.
Mar 2017
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Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga
The idea is brilliant, and ensemble solid. Pity about the flaccid writing which obscures the idea and the intent. What this film needed was more sharpness, more acuity, more honesty.
Feb 2019
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Jun 2011
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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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Revolver Rani
...the Rani in ‘Queen’ won our hearts because she was believable every inch of the way. This Rani, who hefts revolvers and shoots to kill, is neither wholly a cartoon figure, nor completely credible.
Apr 2014
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Jan 2015
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Sarbjit
A real-life tale which is inherently so full of drama and heart-break has no need to be artificially revved up. But mainstream Bollywood doesn’t know any other way to do things.
May 2016
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Notebook
Love as a buffer against militancy? What a good idea. But not in this airy-fairy, ineffective way that Notebook propounds: the performances by the newbies, with Iqbal faring just a trifle better than Bahl is as two dimensional as the plot.
Mar 2019
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Laal Kaptaan
...there are flashes when you feel the film will finally say something important, but then it lapses back into stodgy set-pieces which go on and on.
Oct 2019
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Kochadaiiyaan
...the outcome is so spectacularly dull that it overwhelms the most technologically advanced cinematography witnessed in Indian cinema.
May 2014
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Coffee Bloom
...becomes one of those films whose premise is interesting, but which is let down by the execution.
Mar 2015
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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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Gabbar Is Back
...can Bollywood please, please stop making these tired, tiresome remakes? And let sleeping Gabbars lie?
May 2015
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Singh Is Bliing
...is a low rent comedy and doesn’t care who knows it. Everything about it stoops low: IQ, jokes, scenes. Of course, there is no story, only unconnected, jerky set-pieces.
Oct 2015