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Jun 2011
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Bhavesh Joshi Superhero
There is a film in here. Or should I say, would have been, if Bhavesh Joshi Superhero had been less of a cobbled-together-from-many-influences overlong yarn. And fresher, sharper, clearer.
Jun 2018
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Bharat
The good thing about the film, despite its eye-roll moments, is the underlining it does of a nation which belongs to us all.
Jun 2019
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Bhaag Milkha Bhaag
...is more the overlong, overblown Singing-Dancing-Flying Sikh, than just the triumphal, true Flying Sikh.
Jul 2013
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Beyond The Clouds
...good-looking yet hollow, and leaves us wondering why, if Majidi did have to make a Hindi film, did he choose this subject? He’s clearly seeing it at second-remove.
Apr 2018
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Bewakoofiyaan
...spends most of its time trying to showcase a slew of brands, get us to smile at the antics of the father of the bride which are singularly unfunny, and to convince us that its leading lady can helm an entire film.
Mar 2014
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Besharam
Besharam is not a film. It is Bollywood's brightest young star stooping to conquer, in search of the mass market.
Oct 2013
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Oct 2016
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Behen Hogi Teri
The only element worth looking at in this film, apart from the dependable Kamat, is the rock-solid Rao. If he was given a better co-star than the strictly one-note Haasan, this might have turned out to be a better film.
Jun 2017
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Begum Jaan
...climbs up to a high-pitched melodramatic perch, and progresses in episodic lurches, never climbing down.
Apr 2017
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Befikre
...that thing, between the two people who are looking for forever, failing at it, and finding it — the crucial elements of terrific romcoms — needs more depth. It needs more feeling. Which ‘Befikre’ doesn’t have.
Dec 2016
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Bbuddah...Hoga Terra Baap
What Bachchan needs is a real, grown-up film, not a stand-up, send-up act.
Jul 2011
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Batti Gul Meter Chalu
Two things mar the movie. Some of the humour made me distinctly uncomfortable: sexist lines inserted for cheap laughs, and a judge made too comic, is not something we expect in a film with good intentions. The other is its inordinate length. It’s run-time is almost three hours: the meter should have stopped at two and a half.
Sep 2018
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Batla House
...the trouble with Batla House is that the whole film acts like a disclaimer...
Aug 2019
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Sep 2012
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Bareilly Ki Barfi
Rajkummar Rao blows away the weaknesses of this film with his consummate act, playing the timid 'chota shehari' on the one hand, and the loud 'rangbaaz' on the other. He sweetens the pot, and makes up for the rest of it.
Aug 2017
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Bangistan
The film finds its laughs in the odd moment, but comes off, over all, flat and tepid.
Aug 2015
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Bang Bang!
Hrithik is the film’s eye candy and the prime shooter, all rolled into one, and gives you some amount of bang. The rest is burble.
Oct 2014
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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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Bajrangi Bhaijaan
This film presses many red-hot buttons, even if the treatment is strictly in-the-clouds ‘filmi’. And gives us Shirtless Salman as a dove of peace, speaking for all religions and ‘mulqs’. Believe it, or faint.
Jul 2015
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Bajirao Mastani
...had the potential to be a terrific historical. What it ends up being is a costume drama: too many costumes, too much revved-up, empty drama, and too little story.
Dec 2015
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Bajatey Raho
...the film turns out to be clichéd and largely choppy: an idea by itself is never enough, it's what you do with it that counts.
Jul 2013
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Bahubali
This is full-tilt ,fully-assured filmmaking of a very high order. ‘Baahubali’ is simply spectacular.
Jul 2015
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Badrinath Ki Dulhania
Alia Bhatt is pitch-perfect as dulhania with a mind of her own. Varun Dhawan impresses as a boy-struggling-to-be-a-man. Together, they offer us a flavourful romance which takes down patriarchy.
Mar 2017
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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