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Mar 2018
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Rahasya
...the result is a film that has only a couple of dark moments. The rest is an attempted mish-mash of a crime-of-coiled-passion- cum-police procedural, the confusion only serving to confound.
Jan 2015
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Ragini MMS
...is strange mix of Hollywood horror influences and old-style Bollywood ghost stories.
May 2011
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Ragini MMS - 2
Despite its harum-scarum script and barely-there logic, I quite enjoyed ‘Ragini MMS 2’ in the portions when Sunny Leone is in full stride.
Mar 2014
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Raees
And that’s where the film gets stuck, between the two stools of restraint and full blown tamasha...
Jan 2017
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Radio
Ishaan Trivedi’s new film is about young love and confusion and confirmation, flitting in and out of studios, and TV screens, and Facebook status updates.
Dec 2009
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May 2021
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Race 3
...is nothing but a recycled bin of too many car chases, explosions, buffed up characters strutting in slo-mo, and wilted lines.
Jun 2018
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Race 2
...looks exactly like 'Race'. Which may have been intentional because plush locations and pretty playthings and buff men are very much Abbas Mustan trademarks. But all it does is cause a dismally same-same feeling.
Jan 2013
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Rabba Main Kya Karoon
The trouble with Rabba Main Kya Karoon, as with most of these films which showcase a pair of inexperienced newcomers with a solid, ill-used supporting cast, is that it settles too easily into a sexist, let's-dump-on--these-idiot-women mode.
Aug 2013
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Raaz Reboot
The shenanigans of Emraan Hashmi, Gaurav Arora and Kriti Kharbanda are supposed to be scary. What you get instead is unintended humour.
Sep 2016
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Sep 2012
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Raavan
Mani Ratnam's re-telling of the epic attempts a classic subversion, with seriously mixed results. 'Raavan' is more miss than hit.
Jun 2010
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Raat Gayi Baat Gayi
...the film plays footsie, without really going all the way. How about something braver and quirkier the next time around?
Jan 2010
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Raanjhanaa
Post interval, it comes unstuck, and squanders its gains. If Raanjhanaa had kept its tone intact, it would have been a great love story.
Jun 2013
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Raajneeti
...could have been the film of the year. It had the potential, and the actors, but it comes together only intermittently. This is not the Prakash Jha who has made some of the most politically resonant films in Hindi cinema.
Jun 2010
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Jul 2017
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Ra.One
It is a superstarry slurry sludge, with just the occasional consolatory sparkle.
Oct 2011
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Queen
...a significant Bollywood marker, a film that is intensely local and gloriously global, with a terrific lead performance by Kangana Ranaut, in a story that bubbles over with real feeling and meaning.
Mar 2014
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Nov 2017
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Qaidi Band
More realism would have made this a film we could have believed in. But we do take away the young faces with us, especially Anya Singh whose bright-eyed earnestness is wholly convincing.
Aug 2017
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Pyaar Ka Punchnama 2
...all we get is more of the same, minus the freshness and the age-appropriate smart lines.
Oct 2015
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Pyaar Ka Punchnama
...while it lasts, you can laugh your head off most of the time. Not a bad reason to see a film.
May 2011
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Pyaar Impossible
How do you watch a film you know will pan out exactly as you think it will from its first frame?
Jan 2010
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Purani Jeans
I enjoyed ‘Purani Jeans’ for its freshness in the face of familiarity, and a story that holds all the way to the end.
May 2014
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Prince
The action just about passes muster, but there’s nothing pulse-quickening about it, and it’s all same old same old. The rest is a waste of the scenery.
Apr 2010
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Nov 2015
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Prague
...weighed under this heavy story and all its twists that aspire for meaning. You keep looking for something to hold on to, and you keep coming up empty.
Sep 2013