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Great Grand Masti
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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Great Grand Masti
There a few moments when your eyes well up, but it’s not enough in a two hour long film.
Aug 2010
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Lafangey Parindey
...a film that raises its head once in a while to deliver a few nice moments, and then lies down again, supine.
Aug 2010
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Lafangey Parindey
There's good shallow, and there's bad shallow. 'Aisha' is strictly in-between shallow.
Aug 2010
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Once Upon A Time In Mumbaai
Milan Luthria...starts off well, and carries on as he means to, but then falls into the trap of the familiar.
Jul 2010
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Jul 2010
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Khatta Meetha
...the film isn’t entirely the laugh riot that it sets out to be : the first half is slow and slack.
Jul 2010
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Jul 2010
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Red Alert
Mahadevan doesn’t leave anything out of his worthy plot, which seesaws between keeping it straight and creating a shoot-and-scoot drama, but doesn’t have the skill to pull it off.
Jul 2010
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Milenge Milenge
Despite the silliness , and despite the fact that they look like their much younger, outdated selves...they manage to come up for breath. But only intermittently.
Jul 2010
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Milenge Milenge
Despite all the flesh on display - the curve of a bare breast, the length of a shapely back - the film is dull and lifeless.
Jun 2010
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Milenge Milenge
Mani Ratnam's re-telling of the epic attempts a classic subversion, with seriously mixed results. 'Raavan' is more miss than hit.
Jun 2010
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Raajneeti
...could have been the film of the year. It had the potential, and the actors, but it comes together only intermittently. This is not the Prakash Jha who has made some of the most politically resonant films in Hindi cinema.
Jun 2010
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Raajneeti
Last week, Jag Mundhra unleashed 'The Apartment' upon us. Barely had we recovered, he's back with 'Chase’.
Apr 2010
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Apr 2010
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Raajneeti
...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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Raajneeti
Apart from the fact that it is stolen, `The Apartment’ suffers from bland acting, and superfluous songs...
Apr 2010
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City Of Gold
You only wish that Manjrekar had made this old story new in the way he comes at it: there’s little startlingly fresh about it. But what there is has power, and absolute conviction.
Apr 2010
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Apr 2010
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Phoonk 2
...manages to startle and scare in a few places, even if a few scenes look filched from a couple of Japanese horror films, once in a while. Can’t ask for more, not from RGV’s brand of horror.
Apr 2010
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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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Jaane Kahan Se Aayi Hai
...practically everything about the film, including this pair which we last saw in `Aladin’, feels like we’ve seen it a hundred times over.
Apr 2010
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The Japanese Wife
In it’s most effective parts, the beautifully-lensed `The Japanese Wife’ is like a haiku, saying a lot without underlining too much, a rare thing in our movies.
Apr 2010
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The Japanese Wife
...could have been a nice old-fashioned three-hour long weepathon. But the director, veteran of launching several careers has become outdated...
Apr 2010
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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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Pankh
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