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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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Chaalis Chauraasi
...is like an empty vessel, which rattles round noisily to no effect.
Jan 2012
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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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Nov 2019
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Bumboo
Films like these need to be obnoxiously funny, where you laugh because you can’t help it. And that happens too few times.
Mar 2012
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Budhia Singh
... there’s enough zest in the warp and weft of the film, to keep us engaged.
Aug 2016
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Bubble Gum
...suffers from some amount of narrative drabness, and some strange too-quick transitions. But it is a film that needs to be noted for its appealing cast and being true to itself.
Jul 2011
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Aug 2015
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Break Ke Baad
...is the latest in the long line of recent Bollywood rom coms which starts off with what must have seemed like a good idea on paper, but comes off looking and feeling lame.
Dec 2010
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Boss
For all intents and purposes, this could be called Rowdy 2, because Akshay does exactly what he does in that earlier film, but with different co-stars, and a plot that is totally subservient to labelling him Boss every two minutes.
Oct 2013
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Bombay Velvet
Lookswise, the film is pure gorgeousness. Trouble is, it is also largely overwrought and inert.
May 2015
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Bombay Talkies
...speaks of you and me, and speaks to you and me. Not all segments are even, but they are all cracklingly real.
May 2013
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Bombairiya
...has the strands, but is bereft of that one thing all movies need: a plot. Whatever passes for one is so hare-brained, so all-over-the-place that you wonder just how this thing was cobbled together.
Jan 2019
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Bol Bachchan
If your nosy is not turned up too high, ‘Bol Bachchan’, less blaring than your standard Rohit Shetty comedy, can give you sporadic chuckles, and a few helpess laughs. Can’t expect more.
Jul 2012
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Bol
Even when it turns out to be too wordy, and much too long-winded, there's no denying that 'Bol' is important. Because it has the courage to say, via its spunky heroine : utaar ke phenk do in burquon ko, apni zindagi khud banao.
Sep 2011
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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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Jul 2014
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Blood Money
...has a story which starts off interesting but becomes familiar as it unspools, underwired with the usual flash.
Mar 2012
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Blank
The trick to making us swallow improbable ploys is slick treatment, and keeping everything moving chop-chop. On both counts, the film largely draws a blank.
May 2019
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Bittoo Boss
What could have had us cracking up becomes dramatically inert, and a film that doesn’t, despite its occasional nice moments, live up to its potential.
Apr 2012
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Bird Idol
...earns more brownie points by giving us an original plot, witty lines, and a cast of chirpy, cheerful characters.
Apr 2010
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May 2018
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Bhopal: A Prayer For Rain
What makes the film worth your time is the way it states, unequivocally, that the gas need not have leaked if Union Carbide and its employees and its votaries had come together to pull the plug in time.
Dec 2014
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Bhoothnath Returns
...it was neither funny nor serious enough: neither fully ghostly nor ghastly, but somewhere in between.
Apr 2014
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Bhoot Returns
...the occasional scary moments are offset by predictable writing and pedestrian acting...
Oct 2012
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Jan 2011
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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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Bhindi Baazaar Inc.
This film is a case of an interesting cast made to do familiar things in hoodlum flicks...
Jun 2011