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Dhobi Ghat
...a strangely uneven film. Its beginning feels amateurishly put together ; as it heads onwards, though, it finds an easy, flowing rhythm with just the occasional stutter.
Jan 2011
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Dharam Sankat Mein
...opens with promise, bringing up concepts that need to be spoken about, but you soon realize that the film is not as radical as it could have been, which should have been clear with its choice of title.
Apr 2015
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Jun 2016
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Dhadak
Khatter has a mobile, expressive face. He is a natural. Kapoor, though, has a hard time emoting. On their own, they each have a couple of scenes which they work: together, there is no zing, no `zingaaat’.
Jul 2018
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Detective Byomkesh Bakshy!
...a film that filled me to the brim. It is the kind of film that I will recall and savour, flaws and all.
Apr 2015
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Delhi Safari
...does a great service to the animation-for-kids genre by stepping out of the tired mythological stories, and creating animals with distinctive personalities.
Oct 2012
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Jul 2011
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Dekh Tamasha Dekh
...is fashioned as a satire, and at its best, it does what all satires must : it stings.
Apr 2014
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Dedh Ishqiya
There is much to be liked in the film, and I wish all of it had been as good as the scintillating bits.
Jan 2014
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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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De De Pyaar De
You wish the film had been braver in its intention of creating a really cracking rom-com, instead of playing its clichés for a laugh.
May 2019
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De Dana Dan
An hour into ‘De Dana Dan’, you are at the exact same point you were the last time Priydarshan got a bunch of people to chase their tails in an enclosed space: struggling to keep your eyes open.
Nov 2009
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David
...speaks of a new kind of Bollywood which doesn't want to be slavish to stars or formulae. But it also speaks of a filmmaking which isn't quite as accomplished as it would like to be, or should be.
Feb 2013
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May 2012
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Dangal
It could have easily turned into a vanity project, which is a clear and present danger. It could have been made more polished that it needed. But it stays real, because the star ratchets it up when required, and lets it go in the rest.
Dec 2016
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Damadamm
...the only thing that I can safely recommend are two full-blown unapologetically cheesy ditties, both of which feature Himesh Bhai himself, and some hilarious lines.
Oct 2011
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Daddy
It’s also the thickly-populated circuitous plot, which goes back and forth in time, which comes in the way of a solid crime thriller cum study of the making of a gangster.
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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Dabangg 2
Because he is being Salman, whose thing of `don’t take me seriously, just have fun’ takes us into a zone where all of `Dabangg 2’ and its settings and characters become comic-book.
Dec 2012
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Dabangg
Kashyap fails to keep the pitch consistent, and the dips become more clichéd and pronounced as the film progresses. Dabangg could have been the retro dhamaka of the year; I enjoyed only some of it.
Sep 2010
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Daayen Ya Baayen
...the pleasures of a film like this, made by a director who knows her mountains and its people, are unmistakable: there's not one ounce of fakery...
Oct 2010
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Daawat-e-Ishq
...Anupam Kher gives the film its only moments of honesty. The rest is an unpalatable snoozefest.
Sep 2014
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Daas Dev
The trouble with all these people (a fine ensemble cast), whose questionable actions underline the common belief that all politics is for personal gain and not for the greater good, is that they get shoehorned into an overwrought plot. And its all much too jerky and staccato, never really letting its good parts breathe.
Apr 2018
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Jul 2013
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CRD
The attempt is admirable even if a trifle uneven. Content is something that is easy to jigger with, even within mainstream constraints; experimenting with form is much harder, both for the creator and the viewer.
Sep 2017