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Sep 2017
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Mar 2017
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PM Narendra Modi
As a bio-pic, it inhabits muddled, post-truth territory. As a hagiography though, genuflecting at the altar of the man, it’s perfect. It’s uncritical, unquestioning, high on rhetoric. And there’s nothing accidental about it.
May 2019
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Players
...flat script, flatter action scenes, and the flattest bunch of actors, all milling about in one film.
Jan 2012
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PK
What you need to re-purpose these themes is nuance, which, after a point, goes missing. This is where the Hirani magic recedes, and the film becomes commonplace.
Dec 2014
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Pizza
...will give you some nice chills, and a little twist in the end, which is not as a surprise as it should have been.
Jul 2014
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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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Piku
...sparks in moments, and I threw my head back and guffawed in a few. But the rest of it stays only mildly amusing. I wanted more motion in these motions.
May 2015
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Photograph
A tiny cameo by Vijay Raaz illustrates what this film needed more of: a touch of whimsy, a kind of magic.
Mar 2019
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Phoonk 2
...manages to startle and scare in a few places, even if a few scenes look filched from a couple of Japanese horror films, once in a while. Can’t ask for more, not from RGV’s brand of horror.
Apr 2010
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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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Phillauri
The pacing is not just languid, it is positively slow, and it allows scenes to go on for much longer than they should.
Mar 2017
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Phhir
...a 'punarjanam' film, featuring a disappearing wife, a distraught husband, and a smashing medium, and how everything falls into place right towards the end.
Aug 2011
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Phata Poster Nikhla Hero
...is meant to make us laugh, but ends up making us groan instead.
Sep 2013
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Phas Gaye Re Obama
...succeeds, and succeeds largely, in its endeavour: Make the viewer laugh at the right places.
Dec 2010
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Aug 2015
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Patiala House
...there’s enough that’s enjoyable in the film. The writing is smart, the lines are life-like, the characters feel right.
Feb 2011
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Pati Patni Aur Woh
Our ‘pati’ may have redeemed himself, and the ‘patni’ and ‘woh’ may have lifted the film somewhat, but to wish for good taste in a comedy dealing with straying husbands and wives-and-other-women-in-holding patterns is no laughing matter.
Dec 2019
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Pataakha
I’ve always maintained that Bharadwaj is great with set-up and dwindles as a finisher. Happy to be proved wrong this time around.
Sep 2018
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Parmanu
You will get the money shot of Abraham and co walking in slo-mo to swelling background music, enveloped in a comic book feel. You will not get crucial nuance and detail, essential requirements for a film to be to taken seriously.
May 2018
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Pari
...the film is so poorly-written, and so scatter-brained that nothing can rescue it, not even a leading lady who is determined to do something different with her producing heft.
Mar 2018
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Parched
...despite Parched’s obvious worthy intentions, its execution left me discomfited.
Sep 2016
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Pappu Can't Dance Saala
I had trouble keeping myself interested because of the flatness which the film suffers from, despite some nice touches.
Dec 2011
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Pankh
The execution lets down the film, peppered by gratuitously grungy dialogue ( a liberal use of the `f’ word is just the start of it; all kinds of invective jostle for attention, especially because they are blipped out), and a series of unlovely people.
Apr 2010
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Dec 2019
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Panga
I will take this, if it comes with a film that celebrates a woman trying to reclaim her dream, even if it comes sanctioned by family.
Jan 2020
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Oct 2012
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Pagglait
With an ensemble cast and its heart in the right place, this Sanya Malhotra film only veers off-course when it becomes too heavy-handed.
Mar 2021