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Pink
It has something to say, and says it with courage and conviction. Gather everyone and go; and while you are at it, spread the word.
Sep 2016
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Tumbbad
...is a gorgeous looking, intriguing morality tale which both entrances and repulses: it’s not something I will forget.
Oct 2018
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Bombay Talkies
...speaks of you and me, and speaks to you and me. Not all segments are even, but they are all cracklingly real.
May 2013
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Lipstick Under My Burkha
It is a film to be celebrated. Take a bow, producer Prakash Jha, director Alankrita Srivastava, and the entire cast and crew. And now excuse me while I go looking for my deepest, reddest lipstick.
Jul 2017
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Jul 2012
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Mar 2017
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Apr 2011
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Jolly LLB 2
...is a pure win. It has a solid plot, a strong sense of time and place and rhythm, and a message that is delivered without sanctimony.
Feb 2017
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Chhapaak
You look at Padukone, so far away from the dressed-up, made-up parts she’s done till now, and acknowledge an actor who wants to break out of her safe zone, to actually inhabit someone else’s skin even if it’s burnt. Yes, it’s worthy, but it’s also very watchable.
Jan 2020
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Fan
It is a wonderful, grasping, knowing performance, the actor and the star all rolled in one, all at our service, even as they service Shah Rukh Khan’s stratospheric stardom.
Apr 2016
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Fan
There’s much to like about Mutki Bhawan. It brings to us themes which are either ignored or dealt with in our cinema with mawkishness and heavy sentimentality.
Apr 2017
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Thappad
...there is not a shred of doubt that Sinha has made an important, crucial film, which shows up centuries of male entitlement for what it is. And how all it takes, from a woman who just wants self-respect, is a decision to say no, Not Even One Slap.
Feb 2020
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Shanghai
...it is an important, relevant film that demands to be watched not just for what it is saying, but for how it is saying it -- angrily, fearlessly, pointing out, as a line in one of the film’s songs puts it, both the ‘gur’ and the ‘gobar’ in this, our Bharat.
Jun 2012
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Aligarh
Hansal Mehta and scriptwriter Apurva Asrani have come up with a lead character and a film which shines with authenticity and emotional heft, which leaves you thinking, and which says something we should all listen to...
Feb 2016
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Kaamyaab
...is a moving, consistently engaging portrait of an artist as a weathering, weathered man.
Mar 2020
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Chittagong
Pain’s film is low on big stars but high on integrity. You can see the story and the performances shine through.
Oct 2012
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Miss Lovely
Ahluwalia gives us marvelous atmosphere, terrific detailing, just the right grunge and grain in the characters and an unexpected emotional punch: this is a film I want to embrace.
Jan 2014
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Feb 2015
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Katiyabaaz
The subject could have easily become a turgid documentary. But the treatment makes it much more interesting...
Aug 2014
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Simran
Kangana keeps us watching, though. With her plain varnished face, she comes across as a real, solid, complex woman, someone you can reach out and touch. When she’s on the top of her game, she’s glorious. Pity the storyline let’s her down.
Sep 2017
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Mard Ko Dard Nahi Hota
Mard works best when it is klutzy and bouncy and light on its feet, and those are the parts which help us go past the occasional flatness: many people in the theater where I saw it were laughing out loud.
Mar 2019
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Mard Ko Dard Nahi Hota
...suffers from some amount of narrative drabness, and some strange too-quick transitions. But it is a film that needs to be noted for its appealing cast and being true to itself.
Jul 2011
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Jan 2014
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Ittefaq
A good murder mystery leads you by the hand but doesn’t advertise its wares, takes care to keep it taut, and delivers a satisfactory payoff. Despite a few niggles, this brand new Ittefaq, which takes broad pointers from the 1969 original of the same name, manages to pull it off.
Nov 2017
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Judgemental Hai Kya
It’s been a long time since I have seen something so determinedly experimental, so inventive, despite its flaws, to come out of Bollywood...
Jul 2019