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Jul 2011
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Dil Dhadakne Do
...in keeping with Zoya’s insistence on keeping it bubbly and bright, the characters do not cut and bleed, just burble and weep, and some crucial sharpness goes missing.
Jun 2015
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Daddy
It’s also the thickly-populated circuitous plot, which goes back and forth in time, which comes in the way of a solid crime thriller cum study of the making of a gangster.
Sep 2017
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Halkaa
Nila Madhab Panda gives us a film about urban wretchedness in easily digestible drawing-room gollops.
Sep 2018
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Mausam
...starts like a dewy-fresh spring morning, where everything is familiar yet new. It then wilts, autumnal overtones taking over. And then never quite recovers, falling into a dreary never-ending winter.
Sep 2011
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Ek Main Aur Ekk Tu
...is a half and half : it gets where it needs to with flair, but not enough surprises.
Feb 2012
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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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Wazir
There’s enough to watch in ‘Wazir’ despite its flaws. It reaffirms something we’ve always known: that there’s nothing to beat a plot-driven film.
Jan 2016
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Daas Dev
The trouble with all these people (a fine ensemble cast), whose questionable actions underline the common belief that all politics is for personal gain and not for the greater good, is that they get shoehorned into an overwrought plot. And its all much too jerky and staccato, never really letting its good parts breathe.
Apr 2018
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Sandeep Aur Pinky Faraar
This is a director who doesn’t hang about. But the films’s hold upon us starts slipping when it starts casting about for good reasons for its leads to be the way they are, coming back into focus sporadically.
Mar 2021
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Aakrosh
...did the director have to rip off Mississipi Burning quite so completely? Replace FBI officers Willem Dafoe and Gene Hackman with CBI officers Akshaye Khanna and Ajay Devgn, darkest Mississippi with darkest Bihar, and racism with caste-ism, steal scenes in their entirety, and you have Aakrosh.
Oct 2010
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Go Goa Gone
The film would have been funnier if the second act hadn't gone into a slide. And also if Khan hadn't played Boris so straight.
May 2013
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The Zoya Factor
For a rom-com which needs to be light on its feet, hitting fours and sixes as it goes along, the writing is not as supple as it should have been. Too many slog overs here.
Sep 2019
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Dedh Ishqiya
There is much to be liked in the film, and I wish all of it had been as good as the scintillating bits.
Jan 2014
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May 2014
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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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Shaadi Ke Side Effects
...is fun, and real, and has some nice laugh-out-loud situations which the leads make the most of.
Feb 2014
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Zubaan
...a mixed bag of a movie : some of it comes together really well ; others strands are all over the place.
Mar 2016
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Manikarnika
But what keeps us with the film is Rani Ranaut, who in her best moments, owns her part, the narrative, and the screen.
Jan 2019
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Chalo Dilli
A sentimental climactic twist ends up being surprisingly not schmaltzy, and gives an interesting touch to 'Chalo Dilli'. It could have been, though, shorter and crisper.
Apr 2011
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Luv Shuv Tey Chicken Khurana
It's nice, all this 'pinni' and 'parandi' and 'pind', and these 'hum log', and just that.
Nov 2012
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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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Question Mark
...as an attempt which stays true to its purpose, of providing uneasy chills, '?' pretty much does its job.
Feb 2012
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Hawaa Hawaai
...has a big beating heart, but you wish it had been a better film: it trundles on, leaps up intermittently, but doesn’t fly.
May 2014
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Ribbon
But as often as the film astutely touches upon the tough choices, and the problems that can crop up, it leaves them, and us, hanging. You are left wanting a little more.
Nov 2017
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Chillar Party
...proves that it is entirely possible to make a smart children's film, with good production values, with kids seen to be having a blast.
Jul 2011
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A Flying Jatt
This could have been such a rollicking film, especially for kids —it had all the ingredients, and an engaging start, fronted by a hero who is light on his feet. Too bad it ends up being a promo for Swachch Bharat.
Aug 2016
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Trapped
Given Motwane’s skills at creating emotions, and Rao’s ability to channel them, Trapped doesn’t take us as far over the edge it could, or should have.
Mar 2017
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Tiger Zinda Hai
I’d enjoyed the first one while it lasted. I had fun in this one too, once I got past the whole ‘Come Children, Let’s Make A Spy Story For You’ explanatory mode of the flick, directed this time by Ali Abbas Zafar.
Dec 2017
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Don 2
...needed an energized, crackling plot. What it has, in almost too much abundance, is SRK dripping dimpled coolth. But cool can only take you so far.
Dec 2011