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Parched
...despite Parched’s obvious worthy intentions, its execution left me discomfited.
Sep 2016
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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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Pink
It has something to say, and says it with courage and conviction. Gather everyone and go; and while you are at it, spread the word.
Sep 2016
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Freaky Ali
Nawazuddin Siddiqui is capable of carrying a film on his own shoulders but the film drowns in its own silliness.
Sep 2016
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Sep 2016
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Akira
Sonakshi Sinha kicks butt in the A R Murugadoss film but is limited by her role. Despite Anurag Kashyap's deliciously bad performance, Akira falls into a sinkhole.
Sep 2016
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Island City
...works best through these fleeting, arresting visuals, their impact diluting when the director turns her attention towards building the narrative arcs.
Sep 2016
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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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Happy Bhag Jayegi
...is good for a few laughs but then falls victim to weak writing and never realises its full potential.
Aug 2016
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Mohenjo Daro
Hrithik Roshan can't rescue this film. Ashutosh Gowariker makes it bigger but not better. Pooja Hegde needs a better debut. Mohenjo Daro is a plod.
Aug 2016
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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
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Budhia Singh
... there’s enough zest in the warp and weft of the film, to keep us engaged.
Aug 2016
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The Legend of Michael Mishra
Some films are so painfully awful that they can safely be categorised under: what were they thinking?
Aug 2016
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Dishoom
It’s got flash but the plot keeps stuttering and stops the film from really zip-zap-zooming.
Jul 2016
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Jul 2016
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Great Grand Masti
...offensively unfunny, grating thing (nothing ‘great’ about it) which should not be allowed to call itself a film.
Jul 2016
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Raman Raghav 2.0
There are some mesmeric bits in here, which belong to Siddiqui. But those are not enough. Without those crucial elements, the film is rendered atmospheric yet hollow...
Jun 2016
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Jun 2016
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Udta Punjab
It has flaws. But this is the kind of film which has something to say, and it says it with both flair and conviction.
Jun 2016
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Jun 2016
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Veerappan
To find an actor who resembles the real-life character he has to play is a stroke of pure luck. But to fritter that away by making that reel-life character so uni-dimensional, so uninteresting is pure misfortune, both for the once terrific director, as well as for us viewers who live in hope for his return.
May 2016
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Waiting
It is too explanatory, too talky : you want the characters to stop describing what they are feeling; you want some quiet so you can see them feeling, and feel right alongside.
May 2016
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Phobia
...is a genuinely frightener, so far away from those unintentionally comic monstrosities it keeps slinging out, that you feel like cheering.
May 2016
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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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Azhar
...an inept ‘tamasha’, not very different from the stuff Bollywood churns out, the cricket just the superstructure for tired song-and-dance and melodrama, in living rooms and court-rooms.
May 2016