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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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Oct 2015
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Feb 2018
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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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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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Ranchi Diaries
...this comes off as a random assemblage of scenes– in forests (that’s where the ‘Naxals’ live), a large mansion (that’s where the bad guy stays), police chowkis, and a crumbling building which is meant to house a bank—trying to pass off as a film.
Oct 2017
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Nov 2018
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Mar 2014
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Calendar Girls
A hurried after-thought, which talks of how these girls are really, truly ‘proud achievers’, comes right in the end. And it’s just that, an after-thought. The rest of it exploits—smugly, tackily, uncomfortably explicitly—young women being exploited.
Sep 2015
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Fanney Khan
...none of these crucial issues are explored; after a cursory mention, the film gets lost in tired clichés.
Aug 2018
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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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Karthik Calling Karthik
...there’s really no steady progression, just staccato sequences where Karthik ( Akhtar) and Shonali ( Padukone) go from happy to fractious within nanoseconds.
Feb 2010
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Rajjo
...the film piles up every single tiresome cliché from all similar films in the past, while telling us nothing we want to know. Or see.
Nov 2013
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Jal
The film is well shot but ends up looking like an advert for Kutchhi landscapes and costumes. The plot is overcooked, spilling over with too many threads.
Apr 2014
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Charlie Kay Chakkar Mein
a confused mish-mash of scenes, with characters doing lines, snorting, shooting up, shooting at and so on. And on.
Nov 2015
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Pari
...the film is so poorly-written, and so scatter-brained that nothing can rescue it, not even a leading lady who is determined to do something different with her producing heft.
Mar 2018
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Pari
This type of film with unknown lead actors tries to lure you with its better known co-stars, but you quickly realize that those better known co-stars are equally clueless about the proceedings.
Oct 2010
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Yeh Dooriyan
This 80s theme, of how a woman with an ex husband and two children, can never be accepted by a younger man's family, belonged to a certain kind of film in the 80s. What is it doing out there, swanning around on the screen in this day and age?
Aug 2011
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Chaalis Chauraasi
...is like an empty vessel, which rattles round noisily to no effect.
Jan 2012
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Apr 2015
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Jai Ho! Democracy
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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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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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
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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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Pankh
The execution lets down the film, peppered by gratuitously grungy dialogue ( a liberal use of the `f’ word is just the start of it; all kinds of invective jostle for attention, especially because they are blipped out), and a series of unlovely people.
Apr 2010