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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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Family Of Thakurganj
...feels like a tired retread on all counts. How you can pull of such a feat with so many good actors is an achievement in itself.
Jul 2019
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F.A.L.T.U
The young gang is watchable, even if they are made to swap sense for a few broad laughs.
Apr 2011
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Entertainment
...it is dull and loud, with a brow so lowered that it reaches the floor.
Aug 2014
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Emotional Atyachar : The Film
...needed much more imagination to get to be the heist-roadie film that it set out to be...
Sep 2010
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Feb 2012
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Ek Villain
Suri is an innate story-teller, and can keep things moving. All he needs is a strong, all-the-way credible, original plot.
Jun 2014
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Ek Tha Tiger
Salman is much more in packaged-by-Yashraj-Bond mode, bashing ‘em up, and lovin’ her for ever, essentially Bhai doing his stuff, but restricted from being all over the place, which is not such a bad thing.
Aug 2012
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Ek Paheli Leela
Why, in fact, pretend towards a plot, when all this film wants to do is to exploit its leading lady’s awe-inspiring stack? From as many angles as possible, the closer the better?
Apr 2015
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Ek Main Aur Ekk Tu
...is a half and half : it gets where it needs to with flair, but not enough surprises.
Feb 2012
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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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Ek Haseena Thi Ek Deewana Tha
...Suneel, who clearly hasn’t kept up with the times, comes up with a hopelessly outdated series of reels, reeking strongly of mothballs and terrible acting all round.
Jun 2017
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Dunno Y Na Jaane Kyun...
...a good idea wrapped, and nearly hidden, in clunky execution. Every time something real struggles to come up, it is buried quickly under amateurish acting, or over-written plot points.
Nov 2010
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Feb 2015
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Jan 2010
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Drishyam
The film, which stays mostly faithful to the original but has a few inserts, could have been better if it had been tighter. And if Ajay Devgn had someone other than Shriya Saran (the two don’t quite fit) opposite him.
Jul 2015
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Dream Girl
There are many good ideas floating around in Dream Girl. But ideas need execution, and on that score, this film flubs it: it has so little wit and imagination that it turns all those ideas into a series of flat set-pieces.
Sep 2019
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Double Dhamaal
You have to admire the film for one thing though : it sticks unswervingly to its promise of delivering loudness and crassness.
Jun 2011
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Don 2
...needed an energized, crackling plot. What it has, in almost too much abundance, is SRK dripping dimpled coolth. But cool can only take you so far.
Dec 2011
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Jan 2015
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Jun 2016
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Dishoom
It’s got flash but the plot keeps stuttering and stops the film from really zip-zap-zooming.
Jul 2016
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Dirty Politics
There was a time Ms Sherawat showed she had the potential to move past bimbette-dom. ‘Dirty Politics’, however, is not the film where she fulfills it.
Mar 2015
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Dilwale
...is a plotless drag : the slaphappy antics you see on screen are a random jumble of light, camera, action, done in the broadest sense.
Dec 2015
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Dil Toh Baccha Hai Ji
The trouble with ‘Dil Toh Bachcha Hai Ji’ is that the slim material gets stretched over two-and-a-half hours. Too much running time, and too little nuance flatten this enterprise.
Jan 2011
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Dil Dhadakne Do
...in keeping with Zoya’s insistence on keeping it bubbly and bright, the characters do not cut and bleed, just burble and weep, and some crucial sharpness goes missing.
Jun 2015