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Darr @The Mall
...is one of the more polished products of the much-abused horror genre.This one tends to hold itself back from the excesses associated with the genre.
Feb 2014
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Heartless
...works within its ambitious realm of love, betrayal and mortality. It makes an endearing departure from routine romances about broken hearts and mended morale.
Feb 2014
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Babloo Happy Hai
...fresh, breezy, naughty, nifty. It gives out a strong message without being weighed down by the social statement.
Feb 2014
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Hasee Toh Phasee
...the film and every rich resplendent moment in it, belongs to Parineeti Chopra. She irons out all the rough spots in the storytelling, hides all the wrinkles in the jaded plot and makes her character seem far more empathetic than it would have been in a lesser actress' hands.
Feb 2014
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Jai Ho
Sohail has spun a credible and often compelling anti-corruption yarn that succeeds in justifying the need for Salman's stardom to monopolise the entire length and breadth of the footage. His rhetorical rowdyism brings the house down.
Jan 2014
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Mahabharat
There is a laboured attempt here to prove that animation has come to animated life in Indian cinema. Sadly, it ends up proving only the opposite. We've a long way to go.
Dec 2013
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Dhoom 3
...an intriguing piece of work... slender supple smart and subtle...and yet helmed by a central performance that screams for attention.
Dec 2013
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Jackpot
...clocks quite a curious yarn, more notable for what it attempts than what it actually achieves.
Dec 2013
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R... Rajkumar
Neither silent nor offensively violent "R... Rajkumar" is a fun take on the hero and the tyrant.
Dec 2013
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Bullett Raja
It takes guts to turn the conventional formulistic cinema about male bonding and revenge into a tightly wound intelligently scripted and judiciously executed drama of political subterfuge in Uttar Pradesh...
Nov 2013
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Singh Saab The Great
Back in form with a bang in Singh Saab The Great, Sunny delivers a wallop.
Nov 2013
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Gori Tere Pyaar Mein
Moments that are meant to be bitingly urbane and tongue-in-cheek end up being as flat as pancakes cooked for breakfast served in the evening.
Nov 2013
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Krrish 3
Rakesh Roshan combines the breathtaking SFX with a high level of emotion and drama. The result is quite often exhilarating and spectacular.
Nov 2013
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Besharam
...is devoid of rhythm, sur or taal. It's shot like an ongoing television sitcom where the actors are clueless about which way the intended laughter would take them.
Oct 2013
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Madras Cafe
This is arguably the best political thriller that Bollywood has so far given us.
Aug 2013
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Bombay Talkies
This is a beguiling, beautiful and befitting homage to 100 years of Indian cinema. It's also proof that different stories in an episodic film could comfortably have directors with different sensitivities staring in the same line of vision.
May 2013
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Saheb Biwi Aur Gangster Returns
...a vivid, vibrant, dramatic, savagely tragic and unexpectedly humorous sequel with gutsy passionate performances.
Mar 2013
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Zila Ghaziabad
If judgmental, one could be deeply offended by the unstopped flow of aggression and profanity. However, if in a lenient mind-space, the bloody battle for indeterminate causes could provide some amount of lowbrow fun.
Feb 2013
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ABCD - Any Body Can Dance
What sees ABCD through is its sincerity of purpose. Director D’Souza intends to do a "dance film" with a sturdy plot to hold up the choreography.
Feb 2013
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Vishwaroop
The sharply-drawn characters, the terrifying insight into the psyche of terrorism and the sumptuous mounting and packaging add up to a movie that is quite easily one of the finest adventure sagas in recent times.
Jan 2013
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Makkhi
This may not be the classic waiting to be re-discovered. But Makkhi holds our attention right to the end. It is a conventional love story turned into a ferociously innovative saga by one masterstroke.
Oct 2012
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Chittagong
For cinema to accommodate history, there must be a sense of balance between drama and authenticity. Chittagong manages that balance quite well.
Oct 2012
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Raaz 3
Vikram Bhatt springs a spook spree that offers viewers the irresistible bait of horror and sex. You wait for the horror to get sexy. Instead the sex gets progressively horrific.
Sep 2012
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Tezz
Not quite edge-of-the-seat, the thrills in Tezz are engaging enough to keep us watching.
Apr 2012
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Mar 2012
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Jodi Breakers
If the film works at all it’s because Madhavan and Bipasha make a cute couple and try to extract the maximum enjoyment from their under-written smart-on-top-shaky-at-the-bottom characters.
Feb 2012
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Question Mark
Full credit to the footage collectors Yash and Allison for cracking the oft-abused genre of horror so effectively.
Feb 2012
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Ekk Deewana Tha
The trouble with this elegantly-packaged but somewhat selfidulgently-edited love story is that it takes a very long to get to the point.
Feb 2012