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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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Sep 2011
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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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Barkhaa
The story tends to veer dangerously close to the theatrical, specially after mid-point when the proceedings begin to veer absurdly close to the outrageous.
Mar 2015
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Dec 2010
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Badmashiyaan
A well-intended sawach-aur-saaf-suthri comedy Badmaashiyaan is a curiously content-driven rom-com with one of the most consistently wicked female protagonists I've seen in recent cinema from Bollywood or Hollywood.
Mar 2015
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Badmaash Company
...an extremely smart and smart-looking film. But its sassy all-knowing tone cannot hide a certain bankruptcy of genuinely inventive ideas.
May 2010
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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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Baar Baar Dekho
It strings together scenes from a situation of marital calamity with an easygoing swagger that Ingmar Bergman would have found distracting.
Sep 2016
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Atithi Tum Kab Jaoge?
Finally you aren’t watching a film about family ties but a film that ties up the family in reams and reams of comic chaos. Vulgarity and double-meanings strictly not admissible.
Mar 2010
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Atithi Tum Kab Jaoge?
...reads like a frighteningly disembodied episode, neither passionate nor bloody enough to qualify as a genuine slasher flick, of a television mini-series built around the theme of suburban loneliness.
Apr 2010
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Atithi Tum Kab Jaoge?
...sets off a tender saucy engaging trip. It somewhere loses its way.
Oct 2010
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Angry Indian Goddesses
Take a bow, Mr Nalin. It’s a miracle that a male director understands women so deeply.
Dec 2015
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Anaarkali Of Aarah
...is the surprise of the season. It is stunning in thought, spellbinding in plot and utterly gripping in the way the story of a small-town dancer-singer’s adventures in lecher-land unfolds.
Mar 2017
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Aladin
...the film’s faith in the nurturing qualities inherent in fantasy never flags.
Nov 2009
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Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani
If you've ever wondered what on earth is on-screen chemistry, here's your one-stop all-purpose encyclopaedia on celluloid magic.
Nov 2009
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Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani
This is a rare film that surmounts and jumps over all the hurdles of clichéd plotting and corny dialogues on the sheer strength of its protagonists’ charm and grace.
Nov 2009
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Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani
Engaging and endearing Aisha makes you wonder if there’s anything more important in the world than finding the right match.
Aug 2010
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Agneepath
Every component of Malhotra's jagged drama falls into place, with a resounding thump. Agneepath is brilliant in its brutality. It's a riveting and hectic homage to the spirit of the cinema in the 1970s when revenge reigned supreme. And content was King.
Jan 2012
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Ae Dil Hai Mushkil
The scenic invariably overpowers the cynic in Karan Johar’s cinema. He loves the good things in life and dislikes the thought of the makeup being washed by tears of desolation.
Oct 2016
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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