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Khandaani Shafakhana
Khandaani Shafakhana’s aspiration to bring sex out in the open through its protagonist Baby Bedi’s efforts at running a sex clinic in a prudish small town is all very noble. But director Shilpi Dasgupta’s flimsy storytelling and comic timing of a subject, in the same space as Vicky Donor and Shubh Mangal Savdhan, neither enlightens nor entertains.
Aug 2019
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Khamoshiyan
...slips into a hopeless mess of time worn ghost busting, freakish sights...
Jan 2015
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Kesari
21 Sikh soldiers against 10,000 Afghan tribesman -- it's a staggering statistic and splendid premise for a full-bloodied action film.
A feat Kesari not only honours but delivers too if only you'll be patient.
Mar 2019
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Kedarnath
The heft and conviction of a sparkling Sara and subdued Sushant as well as its solid supporting cast make Kedarnath's stereotypes and contrivances a whole lot agreeable.
Dec 2018
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Karwaan
After all that running around, the life lessons it ultimately imparts only show the makers's inability by resorting to the same old soppy idea of closure it so desperately seeks to break away from.
Aug 2018
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Karthik Calling Karthik
Films like Karthik Calling Karthik are all about winding up right. This one fails to make a connect. Pity, it could have been that all important call you've always been waiting for.
Feb 2010
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Kalank
...is stuck in a bizarre time warp of real world and surreal treatment. What ensues is not particularly poignant, but breathtaking to behold.
Apr 2019
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Kai Po Che!
I wouldn’t call Kai Po Che an exact retelling of Chetan Bhagat [ Images ]’s The 3 Mistakes of My Life. Kapoor clearly recognises the strengths (and limitations) of this story as a motion picture and labours to compound an emotionality worth rooting for even if it means significant departure from the source. It’s a beautiful risk. And it totally works.
Feb 2013
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Mar 2012
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Kabir Singh
From treating women like toys, trampling all over their feelings and then acting like a wounded martyr and misunderstood genius wronged by the world, Kabir Singh rounds up every foolish male's ultimate fantasy. Lack of rules can be refreshing, but to watch a sicko getting away after ticking every wrong in the book just rankles.
Jun 2019
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Kaanchi
From effortlessly epic to unintentionally campy, Ghai’s school of entertainment has taken quite a beating.
Apr 2014
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Jan 2018
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Kaagaz
...completely relies on Pankaj Tripathi's unassuming talent and sarcastic might to pull it off.
Jan 2021
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Kaabil
...doesn't pull off anything extraordinary with its visually challenged contrivance except whip up as many puns possible. From blind date to blind justice, it's all there.
Jan 2017
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Judwaa 2
Judwaa 2’s balloon of recycled gas soon goes phus and what’s left is tedious buffoonery of the brainless, for the brainless and by the brainless.
Sep 2017
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Judgemental Hai Kya
...is an expedition into the unhinged, unstable, unreliable mind of a woman single-handedly refusing to be dictated by patriarchy. It's also a provocative commentary on society's tendency to label individuals refusing to subscribe to its established norms and decorum.
Jul 2019
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Jolly LLB 2
The story is more or less the same except around sharper wit seasoned in authentic local flavours that scorns at the intense rot eating up a noble profession without whitewashing the rascality of its titular character.
Feb 2017
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Jism - 2
It's like Sunny Leone's assets are the script, screenplay and sole purpose of Jism 2 and everyone outside that -- Hooda, Singh, Zakaria or the audience -- is obliged to wag their tongues with thrill. Well, duh, for thinking otherwise.
Aug 2012
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Jawaani Jaaneman
More in the moment than in your face, the humour has a refreshingly offhand quality to it.
Jan 2020
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Jai Ho! Democracy
...a movie purporting to be a political satire but set on a flimsy premise.
Apr 2015
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Mar 2016
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Jagga Jasoos
...isn't a particularly bright caper. It's about seeking nirmal anand whose playful ingenuity is held together by a bag of unending tricks that lend the trip wind in its wings and cheer in its will.
Jul 2017
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Jab Tak Hai Jaan
...is nothing more than lovely fluff that could have been shorter, snappier but is definitely worth watching once for the man whose name appears against the bright blue sky Mr Yash Chopra.
Nov 2012
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Jab Harry Met Sejal
In essence, Jab Harry Met Sejal's titular characters wander aimlessly from one place to another from inside a bubble, holding on to a dream that's playful yet unreal, surprising but hollow. Had Imtiaz treated it like one and not surrendered to predictable fantasy, I'd still admire his audacity.
Aug 2017
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Jaane Kahan Se Aayi Hai
The only way you can mildly amuse yourself with this sham is a) Do not ask questions. b) Do not think. c) Ignore the stereotypes...
Apr 2010
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Ishk Actually
Obtuse, dispassionate and inert, Ishk Actually is one of the drabbest films I’ve seen all year.
Oct 2013