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Shahrukh Bola Khoobsurat Hai Tu
This could have been a nice film, especially because it comes from Makrand Deshpande, fine actor and playwright. What we get is jaw-droppingly bad.
Nov 2010
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Shagird
...despite its sharp, often funny exchanges, and a few spanking scenes, is that it is not new enough.
May 2011
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Shaapit
Practically nothing about 'Shaapit’, which has the youngest looking debutant hero after Shahid Kapoor, is scary...
Mar 2010
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Shaadi Mein Zaroor Aana
For a film that ostensibly sets out to speak against the ills of dowry, Shaadi Mein Zaroor Aana is surprisingly, and dangerously muted.
Nov 2017
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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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Setters
...lays all its cards on the table in the first act itself: the follow-up is over-long and tedious. And, barring a few sharp moments, flat.
May 2019
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Satyameva Jayate
There was a time, in the 70s and 80s, when B grade cinema embraced this theme—weeding out corruption with extreme violence– with enthusiasm. Satyameva Jayate brings it all back, with all its dialogue-baazi, and relentless background music, piling one improbable, cliché-ridden sequence upon another.
Aug 2018
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Satyagraha
This is a film whose anthem is 'Janta Rocks'. Which sort of goes with 'Politics Lite', doesn't it?
Aug 2013
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Satya 2
You want to ask RGV: what was he thinking? Or has he abandoned it altogether now?
Nov 2013
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Satellite Shankar
This very Forrest Gump-ish intent could have been better realized if the plot had been less simplistic, and the lead actor a little more versatile.
Nov 2019
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Sarkar 3
The best that can be said about Sarkar 3 is that it is not as terrible as Not A Love Story, and, no, nowhere as ghastly as Ram Gopal Varma Ki Aag. That’s small consolation for a film...
May 2017
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Sarbjit
A real-life tale which is inherently so full of drama and heart-break has no need to be artificially revved up. But mainstream Bollywood doesn’t know any other way to do things.
May 2016
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Sanju
...is mostly engaging, and some of it good enough to make you laugh out loud in pleasure, especially when Hirani is killing it. But you wonder too what the film chose to leave out, and you wonder if this would have been more of a film if those things had been in here.
Jun 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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Feb 2016
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Samrat & Co.
I’m all for murder mysteries and brainy sleuths, but this one made me slump in my chair.
Apr 2014
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Saina
Parineeti Chopra gives us a good, solid Saina Nehwal. When she raises her racket after a hard-fought win, you cheer.
Mar 2021
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Saheb Biwi Aur Gangster Returns
The 'return' is a better film, but it stops short of being excellent. The smooth build-up in the first half leads to a confused, too-crowded second, which lets the film, and us, down.
Mar 2013
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Saheb Biwi Aur Gangster 3
Much more money has been spent in this part, to make it plusher. It’s shinier, sure, but much less on point. In the power-hungry, sexually charged games the trio and its hangers-on play, there’s a lot more that topples than towers.
Jul 2018
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Saheb Biwi Aur Gangster
...is one of those films which occasionally slides smoothly into top gear, but the ride overall bumps over traversed terrain.
Sep 2011
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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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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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Saand Ki Aankh
In the film, the elderly women are played by two twenty-somethings buried under layers of prosthetics, and that, right there, is the problem.
Oct 2019
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Saaho
Everything a thriller needs is in here, and you settle down, fully prepared for a non-stop, breathless, firing-from-all-cylinders ride. But Saaho turns out to be a damp squib.
Aug 2019
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Rustom
How could the filmmakers have turned a crime of such high passion into such a dreary piece of work?
Aug 2016