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R... Rajkumar
...is a mixed bag of a movie, starting off with a bang, and then petering out, not getting where it sets out to go.
Jun 2011
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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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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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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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Rakht Charitra 2
RGV's intention is not so much to delve into the complexities of Andhra politics, which stay firmly in the backdrop, but to create sequences where death is choreographed in varying ways.
Dec 2010
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Jab Tak Hai Jaan
...what the title manages to say pithily takes the fllm nearly three very long hours, and the pay-off isn’t as sweet as it should have been.
Nov 2012
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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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Manikarnika
Kashyap fails to keep the pitch consistent, and the dips become more clichéd and pronounced as the film progresses. Dabangg could have been the retro dhamaka of the year; I enjoyed only some of it.
Sep 2010
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Soundtrack
...gives us a story which feels like it is about something : such a relief from the spate of nothing movies that have been infesting our theatres for a while now, even if the result is mixed.
Oct 2011
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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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F.A.L.T.U
The young gang is watchable, even if they are made to swap sense for a few broad laughs.
Apr 2011
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Life Ki Toh Lag Gayi
I went in expecting nothing, and I was rewarded by a film that surprised me despite some predictable patches, and kept me engaged.
Apr 2012
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Club 60
I would recommend 'Club 60', because it brings into the frame an age group euphemistically called the 'silvers', and by touching a chord with its performances.
Dec 2013
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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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Ribbon
...the gaps between the intention and the final product : the book's gripping characters and its rousing patriotic tale never comes fully alive on screen.
Dec 2010
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Shuddh Desi Romance
Post-interval, there's a discernible dip in energy, and the film gets stretched and contrived.
Sep 2013
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Sulemani Keeda
A little more fun would have put a little more, much-needed spring into Sulemani Keeda...
Dec 2014
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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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Tiger Zinda Hai
...a strangely uneven film. Its beginning feels amateurishly put together ; as it heads onwards, though, it finds an easy, flowing rhythm with just the occasional stutter.
Jan 2011
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Lootera
It has left me with some indelible scenes which are sheer poetry, but this is one of those films that I wanted to like much more than I did.
Jul 2013
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Bhoothnath Returns
...it was neither funny nor serious enough: neither fully ghostly nor ghastly, but somewhere in between.
Apr 2014
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3 Storeys
Even if not madly original, ensemble pieces can turn out interesting if consistently told. 3 Storeys comes off nice in bits but uneven overall...
Mar 2018
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AK vs AK
Motwane’s movie is not just meta. It’s meta-meta, especially when some parts hit too close to the mark, and some are just tantalisingly off the mark.
Dec 2020
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AK vs AK
...the pleasures of a film like this, made by a director who knows her mountains and its people, are unmistakable: there's not one ounce of fakery...
Oct 2010
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Saare Jahaan Se Mehnga
The film has been written zippily by people who know this world. It looks and feels authentic, minus exaggeration. And the actors look as if they belong.
Mar 2013
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Khwaabb
It’s tough to make a true-blue sports film, minus song and dance and melodrama, in Bollywood. This one has tried.
May 2014