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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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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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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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Yeh Faasley
The film begins promisingly, setting up little mysteries. But too soon, the plot starts developing holes, and the execution turns lax.
Mar 2011
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Housefull 2
Basically, Sajid in full flow, celebrating juvenalia. No plot (don’t be silly), decibel levels cranked high, situations careering from one gag to another, characters spewing rapidfire lines which are meant to make you guffaw.
Apr 2012
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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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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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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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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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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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ABCD - Any Body Can Dance - 2
The only way a film like this can beat predictability is to deliver as many surprises as it can. But the writing department is the weakest : clichés abound as the characters whirl about frantically in an attempt to shed cardboard.
Jun 2015
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Mirzya
This problem plagues this lush, good-looking production right through, and makes it much less of a film than it could have been.
Oct 2016
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Maatr
Crass, cringe-inducing and downright sordid, this Raveena Tandon rape-and-revenge thriller makes you ask just one question -- who writes this stuff?
Apr 2017
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Love Sonia
More focus on what happens to the girls when they are yanked from that life would have made Love Sonia fresher, and given the characters more to play with. That is not something we see too often, and there is a tiny glimpse of it in the film. The rest of it is same-old.
Sep 2018
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Nov 2015
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Pyaar Impossible
How do you watch a film you know will pan out exactly as you think it will from its first frame?
Jan 2010
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Tell Me O Kkhuda
Duniya banane waale, yeh kaisi movie banaayi? Also, kyon banayi? Tell me.
Oct 2011
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Chaarfutiya Chhokare
Not one thing rings true. Not the leading lady, togged out in spotless shirts and slacks doing NGO-giri, not the young chokras, and not the bad ‘uns.
Sep 2014
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Mar 2014
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Apr 2015
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Aao Wish Karein
Good proposition for kids, and adults, to buy in. But `Aao Wish Karein’ falls in between two stools, and becomes a film which appeals strongly to neither.
Nov 2009
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Mumbai Mirror
I’ve just finished watching ‘Mumbai Mirror’ and can’t make up my mind : was it so bad that it was plain vanilla bad, or was it head-clutchingly awful?
Jan 2013