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Roohi
What’s missing is a coherent plot and writing. All we get is one cringe-inducing sequence after the next...
Mar 2021
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Prince
The action just about passes muster, but there’s nothing pulse-quickening about it, and it’s all same old same old. The rest is a waste of the scenery.
Apr 2010
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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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Kamaal Dhamaal Malamaal
...a film that should have been wrapped up quickly and deftly, the qualities that Priyan once had, takes over three excruciating hours.
Sep 2012
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Jul 2013
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Meeruthiya Gangsters
The movie is so far from being the zippy crime caper it presumably set out to be that it leaves you stranded, wondering just what is going on.
Sep 2015
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Hide & Seek
...tries to be a Bollywood slasher film, but it doesn’t have the requisite thrill-and- chill factor.
Mar 2010
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Rajdhani Express
Someone has convinced Leander Paes that he can act, and that someone has clearly done a great job, because if he/she hadn’t, this film wouldn’t have been made.
Jan 2013
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Shortcut Romeo
...I wasn't feeling very smart when I left the theatre after two and a half hours of this drivel.
Jun 2013
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Lupt
It’s meant to be a ‘supernatural horror’ flick, but what it is, is plain horrible.
Nov 2018
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Jayanta Bhai Ki Luv Story
I believe Oberoi has it in him. Because when he is in earnest, he is an actor that can be watched. But he needs a much better film.
Feb 2013
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Click
Sivan’s so busy setting the scene that he ignores the bumps and holes in his story.
Feb 2010
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Oct 2015
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Feb 2018
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Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani
Inanity is a great tool for a certain kind of comedy, and Santoshi exploited it brilliantly it in ‘Andaz Apna Apna’. Here he lets inane pile up upon asinine, without getting anything out of it, and burying all his characters deep under.
Nov 2009
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Shaapit
Practically nothing about 'Shaapit’, which has the youngest looking debutant hero after Shahid Kapoor, is scary...
Mar 2010
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Jan 2011
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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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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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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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Toh Baat Pakki
But the biggest shocker here is Tabu. Why she, said to be extremely picky about her roles, said yes to this one will remain an enduring mystery.
Feb 2010