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Sadiyaan
...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 But the director, veteran of launching several careers has become outdated...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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Feb 2011
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Hawaizaada
This could have been a greatly imaginative flight of fancy, but it is anything but. For a film that is about the joy of flying, Hawaizaada fails to sprout any wings.
Jan 2015
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Mar 2018
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Feb 2016
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Jan 2014
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May 2012
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Love Games
Some of the smooching looks professional, about the only thing that does. As for the rest, bye bye, two hours, which will never come back.
Apr 2016
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FryDay
No one else seems to have the first idea of what to do, apart from going around in circles, and spouting dialogue which is meant to be funny but instead fries your brain.
Oct 2018
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Grand Masti
No one expects films of this sort – boys and their toys – to be sophisticated or intelligent. By definition, they are meant to be crass and tasteless. But then filmmakers getting into this should go the whole hog, and give us what they promise: there was nothing adult in what I saw, only pubescent groping.
Sep 2013
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Nov 2014
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Roy
I haven’t seen something as fuzzy and dreary as ‘Roy’ in a long time : just what is Ranbir Kapoor doing in a movie like this?
Feb 2015
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Bombairiya
...has the strands, but is bereft of that one thing all movies need: a plot. Whatever passes for one is so hare-brained, so all-over-the-place that you wonder just how this thing was cobbled together.
Jan 2019
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One Day
This is not a bad premise for a spot-the-vigilante thriller, led by the trusty Anupam Kher. But the execution is so ham-fisted from opening to closing frame that you are left reeling.
Jul 2019
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Ungli
...the most amateurish piece of work I’ve seen in a while, all fingers and thumbs.
Nov 2014
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Jun 2011
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Hum Tum Shabana
What do you do with a film which is purportedly a comedy and delivers not one single laugh?
Sep 2011
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Hamari Adhuri Kahani
It purports to be an unusual triangle, and perhaps on paper, it may have come off as one. But this is a shockingly empty film, with the entire cast desperately ‘acting away’, and not one sentiment that feels real.
Jun 2015
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Sep 2017
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Jhootha Kahin Ka
This alleged comedy of errors, in which are complicit such veterans as Rishi Kapoor and Rakesh Bedi, bids fair to leap straight into the worst films of the year list. The dialogue is risible. The performances are loud. The film is beyond awful.
Jul 2019
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Action Jackson
Even Rohit Shetty’s brand of brainlessness is better than this straight-up disgusting fare.
Dec 2014
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Tutak Tutak Tutiya
...a series of grimaces and groans studded in a risible script, in which we rapidly lose all interest after we’ve finished smiling weakly at the leading man’s accented Hindi as the boorish Krishna, and his puerile attempts at getting rid of a doormat of a wife (Tamannah Bhatia).
Oct 2016
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Dirty Politics
There was a time Ms Sherawat showed she had the potential to move past bimbette-dom. ‘Dirty Politics’, however, is not the film where she fulfills it.
Mar 2015