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Badlapur
...a mixed bag of a movie: it has a cracking set-up, a middle with the occasional unsettling prod, and an end which fizzles.
Feb 2015
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Baby
...the niggling discomfort caused by the pandering to stereotypes ( and the requisite nod to tokenism) colours our viewing. There’s also the fact that though this film looks always to be on the move, it frequently stalls.
Jan 2015
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Babumoshai Bandookbaaz
...the squelchy pulp fiction aspect, and the attempts at black comedy are not quite enough to make this a film on its own.
Aug 2017
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Babloo Happy Hai
The director has made strong message films before ( ‘I Am Kalam’) with much more clarity and success. This one tries to do the same but fails : the plot is weak and the acting amateurish.
Feb 2014
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Sep 2016
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Baahubali 2: The Conclusion
...what took our breath away in 2015 is same old in 2017. Yes, it is bigger, but it is not better.
Apr 2017
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Baaghi 3
The only reason for Baaghi 3 to exist is this: to showcase the amazingly ripped bod of Tiger Shroff, who is poetry when in motion, and faltering verse when there’s emotion.
Mar 2020
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Baaghi 2
The trouble with a full-on masala film going in search of a plot is evident in the way the film unspools.
Mar 2018
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Baadshaho
Only it’s 2017 not the 70s, and whatever you might do – add some spit-and-polish and intrigue and new faces, and create funny dialogues – the film comes off as old wine, in a not very new bottle, which we have to sip for over 2.5 hours.
Sep 2017
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Mar 2018
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B.A. Pass
Mohan Sikka's short story 'The Railway Aunty', on which the film is based, uses its atmosphere of defeat and rancidness much better. In the film, Bahl creates claustrophobia well, and then loses the story and the characters in it.
Aug 2013
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Azhar
...an inept ‘tamasha’, not very different from the stuff Bollywood churns out, the cricket just the superstructure for tired song-and-dance and melodrama, in living rooms and court-rooms.
May 2016
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Aurangzeb
Somewhere in the too-complicated strands of Aurangzeb is a film struggling to cohere.
May 2013
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Atithi Tum Kab Jaoge?
...there’s nothing fresh about Dhir’s film, which employs tired characters and even more tiresome clichés.
Mar 2010
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Jul 2019
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Apartment
Apart from the fact that it is stolen, `The Apartment’ suffers from bland acting, and superfluous songs...
Apr 2010
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Ankur Arora Murder Case
Pity because this could have been a medico-legal thriller with teeth.
Jun 2013
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Anjaana Anjaani
These are good actors being made to boost a limp story: they needed a better film.
Oct 2010
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Angry Indian Goddesses
Being labelled ‘goddesses’ seems like a ploy to reel in non-Indians looking for exotica, something the director does well. It doesn’t do these lovely ladies any favours.
Dec 2015
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Angrezi Mein Kehte Hain
...the film is plagued with some amount of staginess. Parts of it feel overstated, rather than subtly touched upon.
May 2018
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Angrezi Medium
In its attempt to strike a balance between making us laugh and cry, broad comedy and wring-your-heart emotion, the film keeps swaying one way and another, resulting in sudden tonal shifts.
Mar 2020
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Andhadhun
...is racy, pacy and appropriately pulpy: alert viewers may twig on to the big reveal, but the thrills and chills are right there where they should be.
Oct 2018
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Anaarkali Of Aarah
This film hits all the right spots. With Anar, Swara Bhaskar gets a role worthy of her. Debut director Avinash Das is a filmmaker to watch out for. And, it is a ladies-oriented film. We simply cannot help cheering.
Mar 2017
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Amit Sahni Ki List
...the story never really shakes off its tropes, and burst forth into its own.
Jul 2014
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Always Kabhi Kabhi
...always looking as if it's trying too hard, only very kabhi kabhi finding its voice.
Jun 2011
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Allah Ke Banday
In the taut first half, first time director Faruk Kabir gets most of it right. The second half is scattered...
Dec 2010
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All Is Well
Whoever named this film must have a great sense of black humour, because the only thing ‘well’ about the film is its title.
Aug 2015
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Aligarh
Hansal Mehta and scriptwriter Apurva Asrani have come up with a lead character and a film which shines with authenticity and emotional heft, which leaves you thinking, and which says something we should all listen to...
Feb 2016