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Thappad
A spectacular Taapsee Pannu brings out the shift of a happy homemaker to a heartbroken woman most strikingly in her deeply affecting performance.
Feb 2020
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Teri Meri Kahaani
Kohli dilutes the chance of a wholesome, affable entertainer down by his predilection for risk-free conclusions.
Jun 2012
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Tere Bin Laden Dead Or Alive
...is completely devoid of whimsy. And, if it aspires to be a satire, there’s little bite or ambition in its pedestrian approach and trivial resolutions.
Feb 2016
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Teraa Surroor
If watching a 100-something minutes long music video starring a deadpan, poor man's Sunil Shetty strutting self-importantly in Salman's hand-me-down is your kind of entertainment, book your ticket RIGHT NOW.
Mar 2016
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Tanu Weds Manu Returns
...is not merely superior to its predecessor but the flamboyance and fun it provides is an implication we're not quite done with this mad duo and their quirky universe yet.
May 2015
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Tanu Weds Manu
...engages best if you can read in between the lines and draw your own sub-text.
Feb 2011
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Tanhaji
...has so much fun recreating a bygone legend and fictionalising history, authenticity and spellings, it gets infectious.
Jan 2020
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Super 30
Simplistic and lopsided, Super 30 is too fixated on its master to mahatma narrative to graduate beyond so so.
Jul 2019
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Sultan
...despite the possibilities, writer-director Ali Abbas Zafar relies solely on its main star’s drawing power and offers nothing novel in terms of storytelling.
Jul 2016
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Sui Dhaaga
Varun Dhawan and Anushka Sharma portray the world of Sui Dhaaga with a gentleness that turns everything it touches into gold.
Oct 2018
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Student Of The Year
...through constant influx of escapism and pomp with magnificently choreographed songs, razzle dazzle of colours/style/design, appropriate dosage of humour and ritzy production values that distracts one from Student of the Year's brash celebration of superficiality and obvious lack of depth.
Oct 2012
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Striker
Clearly, Striker doesn't aim at being a bam-wham kind of flick. Instead it offers a study into the uneasy coming-of-age of an individual on-the-fence over the life he wants to embrace.
Feb 2010
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Street Dancer 3D
...this one is only about cardboard central characters and side-lined sensations doing the same old, same old.
Jan 2020
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Special 26
what’s truly Special about this Chabbis is to see two such different actors, one reliably awesome and the other getting out of his comfort zone of mindless money-spinners to collaborate and credit a script that gives them something concrete and equivalent to work on.
Feb 2013
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Soorma
...Diljit Dosanjh's striking self-possession, like the champion he's portraying, doesn't let it come in the way of a performance that screams g-o-a-l.
Jul 2018
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Sonu Ke Titu Ki Sweety
Pedestrian wit works best around actors who don't just go with the flow, but shape it to suit their comical timing. That's the difference between performers and parrots. But the underwhelming leads of Sonu Ke Titu Ki Sweety don't seem to know the difference at all.
Feb 2018
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Sonchiriya
Chaubey and Sharma recreate a bygone era's lore and legends, groom it like a Western, pace it like a thriller, infuse it with surprises and social relevance around lyrical visuals and impactful writing, even its booming dishkyaons hit harder than all the empty pooh-pahing we hear around us all the time.
Mar 2019
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Sniff
...Gupte sources his own experiences growing up in the said neighbourhood, employing a large number of non-actors to fill the frames with authenticity and flavour the narrative in a humour that comes from a place of familiarity.
Aug 2017
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Singham Returns
...offers quite a bit to whistle about with its steady supply of straightforward action and a hot-headed hero who delivers a punch with a fist and a line.
Aug 2014
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Singh Is Bliing
...it’s high on pedestrian humour where people shriek in pain after being knocked down by a car or coconut and absconding lions send humans in a tizzy.
Oct 2015
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Shuddh Desi Romance
...there's never a dull moment in Sahni's penetrating jibes and whimsical trifling, which strives to convey a simple but underrated philosophy in the most fun way possible -- marry because you want to, not because you must.
Sep 2013
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Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan
...amasses a clutter of complicated issues and sometimes comes across as more messy than meaningful. But the delightful cast, utterly natural in their confusion as well as revolt, compelled me to cheer for its easily resolved conflicts even if deep down I wondered at the possibility of such extraordinarily ideal understanding.
Feb 2020
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Shubh Mangal Saavdhan
Every single scene of this freewheeling entertainer is peppered with witticism that deserves to be savoured and parroted. But it's not always an uproarious one-liner -- and rest assured they are there in abundance -- highlighting the broader picture of this wholeheartedly frolicsome rom-com.
Sep 2017
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Aug 2012
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Shab
...Onir documents the most intimate facets of his characters lives with confounding distance. Blame it on the sloppy screenplay and flimsy characterisation, but not a single character elicits any sort of emotional response -- good or bad.
Jul 2017