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Zanjeer
There really is nothing in this film that catches your eye except for a few set pieces, and a new male face which could make some space for himself if he gets something better.
Sep 2013
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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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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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Jun 2011
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Race 2
...looks exactly like 'Race'. Which may have been intentional because plush locations and pretty playthings and buff men are very much Abbas Mustan trademarks. But all it does is cause a dismally same-same feeling.
Jan 2013
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Race 2
This is yet another in the line of the Quirky Delhi Film, a genre that has long run out of steam. The novelty lasts for a few minutes. After which it's all downhill.
Dec 2013
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Alone
The ingredients for a horror film are all there, but ‘Alone’ very quickly becomes a tussle between the scenes that want you to be scared and the sequences where you are supposed to slurp at all the eye candy...
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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Chalk N Duster
It is a subject that deserves a great deal of attention, but not in the way ‘Chalk N’ Duster’ does it. The treatment is amateurish in the extreme...
Jan 2016
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Befikre
...that thing, between the two people who are looking for forever, failing at it, and finding it — the crucial elements of terrific romcoms — needs more depth. It needs more feeling. Which ‘Befikre’ doesn’t have.
Dec 2016
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Parmanu
You will get the money shot of Abraham and co walking in slo-mo to swelling background music, enveloped in a comic book feel. You will not get crucial nuance and detail, essential requirements for a film to be to taken seriously.
May 2018
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Mohalla Assi
...is not much of a film. It’s just a collection of choppy scenes, making it seem that it was censored heavily. It’s been in the making for five or six years, and you can see later add-ons: Deol is earnest, but not really convincing as an Assi dweller.
Nov 2018
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Student Of The Year 2
This class of 2019 is awash with predictable beats, which is to be expected from an underdog story, but that it is so clichéd and stilted, is disappointing: from KJo I expect much more swish and sparkle.
May 2019
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Yeh Saali Aashiqui
...the trouble with the film is that the treatment of both the romantic angles, as well as the watch-the-femme-fatale-in-her-red-lips, is dated and troubling.
Nov 2019
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Mastram
The re-creation of an era, and why this series became so successful, which could have lent the film some heft, is wholly missing from the story.
May 2014
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Jai Gangaajal
Priyanka Chopra’s too-sophisticated unmade-up-make-up is very distracting, even in her few convincing moments. And the film goes on for far too long, even when we know how all of it will end...
Mar 2016
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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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Jai Mummy Di
The title is apt, and make you smile. Sadly, the spark doesn’t percolate into the film, which comes off banal and dull.
Jan 2020
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Son Of Sardaar
The jokes in ‘Son Of Sardaar’ start off as a one-time laugh, which quickly turn tiresome because they are pressed into service in a loop.
Nov 2012
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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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Nov 2015
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Yaara Silly Silly
A foul-mouthed whore and a gentle-voiced young fellow are thrown together for a night, and the time they spend together impacts both strongly: the premise has promise, but nothing in the film delivers on it.
Nov 2015
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Yaara Silly Silly
The thing with films where leading men can see ghosts is that they need to be completely original. 'Hum Tum Aur Ghost' smacks a little of 'Ghost' , a little of 'The Sixth Sense' : the rest of it feels cobbled-together...
Mar 2010
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Gour Hari Dastaan
...it has all the elements that could have made it all this and more, but it comes off flat and dull.
Aug 2015
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No Problem
...an unending series of the most unfunny, disjointed scenes masquerading as a film.
Dec 2010