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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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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
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Kaagaz Ke Fools
You keep wanting this film to ‘ho ja shuru’, but ‘Kaagaz Ke Fools’ doesn’t have the feet for it
Apr 2015
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Mar 2016
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Oct 2016
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May 2021
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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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Ghost
The only way to get through it is to see the funny side of it all, and laugh the ghastliness away.
Jan 2012
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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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Coffee With D
Grover, who is a well-known TV artist, is the only one who seems serious about this enterprise. Everyone else seems in on the joke.
Jan 2017
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Guest Iin London
Do you think crude jokes should be strewn liberally in your weekly flick fix? Should a gag, abysmally executed in the first place, be stretched out like a rubber band to keep you rolling in the aisles?Then Guest Iin London is just the ticket for you.
Jul 2017
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Jul 2014
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Genius
No harm in rejigging masala, but not if your style is mothballed. And not if the lead comes off strictly average, punching so high above his weight, that you end up feeling sorry for him.
Aug 2018
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Jun 2016
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Yamla Pagla Deewana Phir Se
In this installment, taglined ‘Phir Se’, even the half-hearted guffaws, which we managed in the first two, have dried up. The jokes are so lame that they are practically invisible.
Aug 2018
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MSG
Oh my eyes. I was at last night’s premiere of ‘MSG, Messenger Of God’, and I’m still to recover.
Feb 2015
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Apr 2019
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Ek Paheli Leela
Why, in fact, pretend towards a plot, when all this film wants to do is to exploit its leading lady’s awe-inspiring stack? From as many angles as possible, the closer the better?
Apr 2015
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The Accidental Prime Minister
What comes as a surprise is just how shockingly bad and shoddy the film is. There is a complete absence of any art or craft in its making.
Jan 2019
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Tera Intezaar
...excruciating collection of random scenes and dialogue, with the least semblance of sense, or whisper of plot.
Dec 2017
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O Teri
...nothing but a series of dismal, embarrassing scenes interspersed with songs that are even more so.
Mar 2014
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Tera Intezaar
...excruciating collection of random scenes and dialogue, with the least semblance of sense, or whisper of plot.
Dec 2017
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Why Cheat India
...is disjointed and disappointing, never quite knowing which side it is on...
Jan 2019
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Humshakals
This one is way beyond. Idiocy is a gentle term for what is unleashed upon us. You can also call it a two-and-a- half hour show reel of plot-less, witless, joylessness.
Jun 2014