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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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Hate Story IV
The plot is a steady stream of hot bods. And acting, what’s that? The film has no ambitions that-a-way, so there.
Mar 2018
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Coolie No.1
We can do with laughter in these dark times, but not like this, with zero wit, no flair.
Dec 2020
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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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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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Hum Tum Aur Ghost
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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Jul 2013
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Samrat & Co.
I’m all for murder mysteries and brainy sleuths, but this one made me slump in my chair.
Apr 2014
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X: Past is Present
...plays out as a disjointed stutter, rather than a seamless progression, its backing-and-forthing more choppy and confusing than anything else.
Nov 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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Radio
Ishaan Trivedi’s new film is about young love and confusion and confirmation, flitting in and out of studios, and TV screens, and Facebook status updates.
Dec 2009
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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
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Rascals
When it came to full on idiocy, or fun-on-the-run, Dhawan was the one.I use the past tense. The director seems to have gone into some sort of comic stasis...
Oct 2011
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Aug 2012
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Apr 2014
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Shivaay
The only thing your eye can rest on is the spectacular scenery. The rest is a bloated star vehicle.
Oct 2016
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Chase
Last week, Jag Mundhra unleashed 'The Apartment' upon us. Barely had we recovered, he's back with 'Chase’.
Apr 2010
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Zero
How many times do we see A-list Bollywood superstars go out of their comfort zone? SRK could have taken a deep dive into Bauua and emerged on another level. But he gets busy trying to do another Swades, and fly the flag, and be a patriot. When you try to do everything, very little is achieved.
Dec 2018
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The Body
There’s enough meat in the story for it to have been an engaging thriller. But it’s been a while since I watched such an inept film. Everything in it is flat: the plot, the performers, the alleged twists.
Dec 2019
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Khiladi 786
In the end, I was left looking at a straw to clutch. Any little thing. I found, dear viewer, none. Not. A. One.
Dec 2012
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Badlapur Boys
You are engaged only when the game is on, and it appears to have been executed with some authenticity : that should have been the sole focus of the film.
Dec 2014
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Mar 2016
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Jabariya Jodi
As the film goes along, confusion gets confounded. Is this a well-meaning social drama, a rom-com, or an actioner?
Aug 2019