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Dec 2010
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Band Baaja Baaraat
...both Sharma and Singh, the near pitch-perfect surprise packet of the film, make you smile. Enough reason for a visit.
Dec 2010
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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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Khelein Hum Jee Jaan Sey
...the gaps between the intention and the final product : the book's gripping characters and its rousing patriotic tale never comes fully alive on screen.
Dec 2010
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Rakht Charitra 2
RGV's intention is not so much to delve into the complexities of Andhra politics, which stay firmly in the backdrop, but to create sequences where death is choreographed in varying ways.
Dec 2010
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Phas Gaye Re Obama
...succeeds, and succeeds largely, in its endeavour: Make the viewer laugh at the right places.
Dec 2010
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Allah Ke Banday
In the taut first half, first time director Faruk Kabir gets most of it right. The second half is scattered...
Dec 2010
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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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Nov 2010
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Shahrukh Bola Khoobsurat Hai Tu
This could have been a nice film, especially because it comes from Makrand Deshpande, fine actor and playwright. What we get is jaw-droppingly bad.
Nov 2010
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Dunno Y Na Jaane Kyun...
...a good idea wrapped, and nearly hidden, in clunky execution. Every time something real struggles to come up, it is buried quickly under amateurish acting, or over-written plot points.
Nov 2010
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Golmaal 3
...the laugh-out-loud stretches are few and far between, mainly because we've seen these same guys doing the same things before, and also because the gags are running out of steam quicker.
Nov 2010
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Nov 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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Nakshatra
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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Jhootha Hi Sahi
...has a lame plot and that the supporting cast has more heft than the lead players.
Oct 2010
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Aakrosh
...did the director have to rip off Mississipi Burning quite so completely? Replace FBI officers Willem Dafoe and Gene Hackman with CBI officers Akshaye Khanna and Ajay Devgn, darkest Mississippi with darkest Bihar, and racism with caste-ism, steal scenes in their entirety, and you have Aakrosh.
Oct 2010
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Khichdi
...this one is strictly for those who love Khichdi, the serial, with a passion, and miss it enough to want to watch the movie, which plays out like four or five extended episodes.
Oct 2010
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Robot
To fully enjoy this nearly three-hour extravaganza, you have to be willing and able to buy into the Rajini myth.
Oct 2010
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Anjaana Anjaani
These are good actors being made to boost a limp story: they needed a better film.
Oct 2010
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For Real
...sets out to mine the rocky terrain between rowing adults and how it impacts children; it succeeds only partially.
Sep 2010
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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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We Are Family
It's all so contrived that you despair of this film having a single genuine emotion.
Sep 2010
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Emotional Atyachar : The Film
...needed much more imagination to get to be the heist-roadie film that it set out to be...
Sep 2010
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Madholal - Keep Walking
What's nice about the film is the way it depicts an ordinary life made endurable by little things...What'’s not so nice is the disappearance of the lightness of touch which makes these familiar elements enjoyable.
Aug 2010
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Aashayein
There a few moments when your eyes well up, but it’s not enough in a two hour long film.
Aug 2010