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Jan 2015
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One Night Stand
For a film which wants to strike a blow for feminism and sexual freedom, there are some troubling misogynistic touches about ‘hot’ secretaries, and ‘stay-at-home’ wives. Careful, your slip is showing.
May 2016
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Prague
...weighed under this heavy story and all its twists that aspire for meaning. You keep looking for something to hold on to, and you keep coming up empty.
Sep 2013
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Bangistan
The film finds its laughs in the odd moment, but comes off, over all, flat and tepid.
Aug 2015
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Dear Zindagi
Both Shah Rukh Khan and Alia Bhatt show spark but the film needed a plot to hinge the performances. Too many dialogues that say too little take the joy away from the film.
Nov 2016
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Behen Hogi Teri
The only element worth looking at in this film, apart from the dependable Kamat, is the rock-solid Rao. If he was given a better co-star than the strictly one-note Haasan, this might have turned out to be a better film.
Jun 2017
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Blank
The trick to making us swallow improbable ploys is slick treatment, and keeping everything moving chop-chop. On both counts, the film largely draws a blank.
May 2019
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Nov 2019
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Mohenjo Daro
Hrithik Roshan can't rescue this film. Ashutosh Gowariker makes it bigger but not better. Pooja Hegde needs a better debut. Mohenjo Daro is a plod.
Aug 2016
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Commando 2
...nothing can be worse for an out-and-out-actioner than to be shackled by sarkaari slogans.
Mar 2017
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Mubarakan
Post-interval, the film’s funny bone gets lost. It becomes a long, maudlin harangue on family values and good sisters and brothers, while slipping in a few distasteful jokes about wives and women.
Jul 2017
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Mubarakan
Despite its good intentions, and some nice on-field sequences where winning and losing is on display, 'Stand By' is marred by its clichés and long-windedness.
Aug 2011
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Nov 2012
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Satyagraha
This is a film whose anthem is 'Janta Rocks'. Which sort of goes with 'Politics Lite', doesn't it?
Aug 2013
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Main Tera Hero
The good Govinda fronted for him, David used his superlative editing skills to keep up a rat-a-tat-pace, and we all happily rolled down the aisles. But it’s been a while since Dhawan hit his stride.
Apr 2014
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Crazy Cukkad Family
...promises a lot of fun cock-a-doodle-do, but delivers much too much cockamamie, instead.
Jan 2015
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Begum Jaan
...climbs up to a high-pitched melodramatic perch, and progresses in episodic lurches, never climbing down.
Apr 2017
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Begum Jaan
...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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Jodi Breakers
...may have started with an idea suited to light-weight rom coms, but despite a few flourishes, it stays firmly bird-brained.
Feb 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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Yaariyan
...seems to have been cobbled together from ‘Main Hoon Na’ and ‘F A L T U’, and ‘Student Of The Year’, even going back to ‘Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikandar’.
Jan 2014
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Chauranga
The trouble with ‘Chauranga’, despite its crucial subject, is that treads familiar ground without taking the tale too far.
Jan 2016
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Mumbai Saga
In Sanjay Gupta’s better films, the bad guys used to be more interesting, the action used to be classy. This John Abraham-Emraan Hashmi film, however, feels jaded.
Mar 2021
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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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Fugly
...begins with a hint of promise, and it could have gone down some paths less travelled. But it meanders, and loses its way.
Jun 2014
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Jab Harry Met Sejal
What you need in such films with their flimsy one-line plots, is the magic and mystery of love between two people. And full-blown wonder. All in short supply in Jab Harry Met Sejal, which comes off as a mix of Ali’s older films, in its flashes of Jab We Met, Tamasha and Love Aaj Kal.
Aug 2017
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Fukrey Returns
...the situations are so tired and contrived there’s nothing that even such capable hands as Richa Chaddha and Pankaj Tripathi can do, to retain our interest.
Dec 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