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Riwayat
Dramatic music would've helped but it's missing. So is acting with depth and taut direction. All of which is a pity.
Sep 2012
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Department
Losing the plot and three strong stars, Department shoots itself in the foot.
May 2012
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Rakhtbeej
The idea of Rakhtbeej is to show how blood connects two men over two generations. Fine - except it's done very badly.
May 2012
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May 2012
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Mar 2014
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Yamla Pagla Deewana 2
Minus 30 minutes, YPD 2 could have been much funnier - and much shorter.
Jun 2013
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Sulemani Keeda
The film rises in straight scenes focusing on pretentious Gonzo and the pitiable writers. It wobbles elsewhere, with crudities that don't amuse...
Dec 2014
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Fugly
The result is like a soggy Delhi chaat where potentially spicy ingredients make a sorry mess. As F*ugly would phrase it, quite a f*waste.
Jun 2014
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Rush
...no amount of lip gloss, nor shiny suits can hide poor acting, which Rush features plenty of.
Oct 2012
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Aalaap
...a tense drama, portraying young college students caught in a violent political face-off. But like a guitar left out in humid air, its strings sag - and snap - at times.
Jul 2012
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Ab Hoga Dharna Unlimited
It's a cheeky little film - but you may find the laughter a challenge.
Apr 2012
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Joker
...a 'vegetarian' family dish that overloads the cheesy corn without adding common sense. Watch if you can digest well.
Aug 2012
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Dharam Sankat Mein
...there's simply too much here. The story tries to accommodate a whole host of issues, fake babas to real crimes, and fails.
Apr 2015
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Calendar Girls
He has his trademark touches of glamour, pathos and personalities but lacks power-packed acting to hold this together.
Sep 2015
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May 2012
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Nov 2014
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Rowdy Rathore
Fans will love Akshay's mooch-twirling masala-act but be ready for hardcore action too - some pretty gruesome.
Jun 2012
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Wazir
...its glassy cinematography, its haunting sound design, work well. What this game needed was more attack, less defence, less repetition, more relentlessness.
Jan 2016
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Zindagi Tere Naam
...it's stamped all over with that peculiar 1990s feel, featuring howlers
Mar 2012
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Humshakals
...features an odd balance between brilliant jokes, followed by a pajama party of PJs.
Jun 2014
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Mar 2012
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Fitoor
...Dickens' Great Expectations rises and falls, exploring terrible, tantalising class, social climbing, sharp snobberies, love, hate and shame. Fitoor doesn't dive beyond the surface though...
Feb 2016
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Matru Ki Bijlee Ka Mandola
...this movie could have been so much more. Like champagne gone flat, the film's left lying about for too late, its plot meandering everywhere, the director so determined to have fun that often, the viewer doesn't.
Jan 2013
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Inkaar
Polished-looking, its edges - the tension of feeling harassed at work, office politics, ego flashes - hold rather well. But its centre collapses in a soft mess.
Jan 2013
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Brothers
...despite mouthing, 'Har sport mein thora drama toh hota hai', only skims that dramatic surface. It could've dived in deeper.
Aug 2015
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Mar 2013