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Waiting
It is too explanatory, too talky : you want the characters to stop describing what they are feeling; you want some quiet so you can see them feeling, and feel right alongside.
May 2016
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Vodka Diaries
...just why, with a notable exception or two, doesn’t Bollywood make any worthwhile thrillers? Sadly, the reliable Menon is wasted. So is our time.
Jan 2018
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Vishwaroop II
...even he (Kamal Hassan) can’t rise above the shockingly inept script, which he rescues only in a few places, when his trademark intelligent, wry self-awareness manages to kick in. The rest can be safely ignored.
Aug 2018
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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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Veere Di Wedding
...is a fun ride, which squeezes past its creaky tropes and partial squelchiness by some smart casting choices, and perky performances.
Jun 2018
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Veerappan
To find an actor who resembles the real-life character he has to play is a stroke of pure luck. But to fritter that away by making that reel-life character so uni-dimensional, so uninteresting is pure misfortune, both for the once terrific director, as well as for us viewers who live in hope for his return.
May 2016
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Veer
Salman is the last Khan standing. It makes not a whit of difference to him and his directors that the space for retrofitted 70s packages has shrunk to nothing...
Jan 2010
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Feb 2011
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Uri
For a film about active blood-letting, it is curiously bloodless. There are not enough of the rousing goose-bump inducing moments that such films come armed with. When a character shouts, how’s the ‘josh’, you want to add to it: where’s the ‘josh’?
Jan 2019
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Ungli
...the most amateurish piece of work I’ve seen in a while, all fingers and thumbs.
Nov 2014
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Ujda Chaman
If the point of the film is to tell us that external appearances have nothing to do with our inner selves, it needed to have done it better. Much, much better.
Nov 2019
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Ugly
In all the to-ing and fro-ing, it starts feeling too long, and too much, without the requisite emotional pay-off. There are three potentially gripping films in here : one would have been enough.
Dec 2014
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Udta Punjab
It has flaws. But this is the kind of film which has something to say, and it says it with both flair and conviction.
Jun 2016
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Udta Punjab
..turns from a warm, welcome peek into that girl's life, a girl we are prepared to like, into a series of cliches.
Jan 2011
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Tumhari Sulu
...the film makes up for these niggles by creating a leading lady who is cracklingly alive, dealing with difficulties, and finding a way around them. Sulu is a win.
Nov 2017
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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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Tum Mile
That lack of tension tells on the film: the effective parts when the two are coming together and drawing apart get submerged by the way it wraps.
Nov 2009
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Tum Bin 2
Two guys, one girl, and the mess they can create amongst themselves may be the oldest story in the book, but it can quite easily be refreshed given the right story and treatment. Unlike the first one which brought these elements together nicely, it doesn’t happen here, despite some well executed moments.
Nov 2016
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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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Tribhanga
What I really like about Tribhanga is the clear-eyed, unsentimental treatment of relationships, which can often be so cloyingly exaggerated in mainstream cinema.
Jan 2021
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Trapped
Given Motwane’s skills at creating emotions, and Rao’s ability to channel them, Trapped doesn’t take us as far over the edge it could, or should have.
Mar 2017
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Traffic
This enterprise, bloated by needless saccharine and background music, has its moments but stays, overall, strictly serviceable.
May 2016
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Total Siyapaa
This could have been hilarious. But all it does is drag its feet through unfunny, stretched situations.
Mar 2014
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Total Dhamaal
Brainless comedies can be a lot of fun (brain, stop smirking), but they need to be written with smarts. Here, the CGI animals (the climactic chunk of the film is set in a zoo) have more effect than the humans.
Feb 2019
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Total Dhamaal
Good for little kids who haven’t been exposed to the delights of cartoon network. If there any left.
Dec 2010
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Toilet
The moment a film succumbs to being the carrier of a Message as opposed to a message, it becomes burdened.
Aug 2017
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Toh Baat Pakki
But the biggest shocker here is Tabu. Why she, said to be extremely picky about her roles, said yes to this one will remain an enduring mystery.
Feb 2010