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Jul 2016
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Race 3
...is nothing but a recycled bin of too many car chases, explosions, buffed up characters strutting in slo-mo, and wilted lines.
Jun 2018
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Malang
Here’s a film which is a perfect example of how Bollywood struggles with creating a plot in which every single thread counts.
Feb 2020
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Bodyguard
...can also safely be called In which Salman Continues to Give Us Those Ones. Let me count the ways.
Sep 2011
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Maximum
...brings no novelty to the viewer and ends up being just another hackneyed affair.
Jun 2012
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Fukrey
...how many times can we see fumbling fellows with cops hot on their heels running down the narrow alleyways of Old Delhi?
Jun 2013
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Jazbaa
...convoluted and over-plotted, as a whole. Sanjay Gupta’s ability to create menace and a sinister sense of place is overwhelmed by the film’s need to showcase the lead actor.
Oct 2015
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Freaky Ali
Nawazuddin Siddiqui is capable of carrying a film on his own shoulders but the film drowns in its own silliness.
Sep 2016
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My Birthday Song
The plotting and the treatment is far too inept to create a solid psychological thriller out of this looping-upon-itself story, whose big reveal is too brief, too late.
Jan 2018
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Happy Phirr Bhag Jayegi
The sequel tries for the same mix of muddled-headed but large-hearted Punjabis, crooked Chinese, a song or two, and a series of sequences which are meant to be funny but are most flat and dull.
Aug 2018
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Kaagaz
...could have been an important film. But the plot is littered with clichés, and comes off distressingly dated...
Jan 2021
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My Friend Pinto
...the end is energetic, making up, somewhat, for the random, chaotic air the film has worn till it gets there. But the rest is strictly amateursville.
Oct 2011
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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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Bhoomi
Dutt’s face is kept in close-up for much of the film, and there is still power in it. This is an actor who can explode off the screen, given the right story. Maybe he needs something much better told to vent his anger.
Sep 2017
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Dabangg 3
No ‘pyaar’, no ‘thappad’, and even Shirtless Salman eliciting only muted ‘seeties’? What’s the point then?
Dec 2019
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Jannat 2
...is, for the most part, a badly-done, badly-acted enterprise, lifted only a notch by a couple of performances.
May 2012
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Gunday
In the name of plot, we get a mash-up of many popular blockbusters, several of them belonging to Yashraj, the producers of this one. In the name of acting, we get pumped up beefcake and one number plumped-lip eye candy.
Feb 2014
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Nov 2014
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Aug 2015
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Jagga Jasoos
Trouble is, in its zeal to put together novel locations and exotic hot spots, ‘Jagga Jasoos’ forgets to give us a story. The good-looking leads are left to fend for themselves in a sinking plot. What we get, with the exception of a few smiley moments, is a long, dull meander.
Jul 2017
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Nov 2015
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Dec 2010
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Pyaar Ka Punchnama 2
...all we get is more of the same, minus the freshness and the age-appropriate smart lines.
Oct 2015
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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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I Am Singh
This could have been a perfectly acceptable film, presumably meant to release around the tenth anniversary of 9/11. In Puneet Issar's hands, it becomes a series of unintentionally hilarious scenes.
Dec 2011
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John Day
The trouble is that there is no coherent plot to hang all of this on, it's just a series of jumbled scenes with too many characters walking in and out, or limping in and out, or being shot at and huddling about in bloody heaps.
Sep 2013
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The Legend of Michael Mishra
Some films are so painfully awful that they can safely be categorised under: what were they thinking?
Aug 2016