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Zanjeer
...a putrid, out-of-context copy that hangs on to the outsized collars of the original for its dear life.
Sep 2013
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Yaariyan
...a mind-numbing mishmash of its fatuous predecessors — music videos pretending to be films.
Jan 2014
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X: Past is Present
Watching most of X felt like being dragged through a bad drug trip of some sad hostel boys.
Nov 2015
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Welcome 2 Karachi
...a warm, idiotic outing to do nothing except tickle and lionise every stereotype on the other side of the border for our oafish desi jollies.
May 2015
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War Chhod Na Yaar
...is marred by tacky and unintelligent direction, it does have some rib-tickling scenes and dialogue...
Oct 2013
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Vodka Diaries
...is a very bad, very poor, often-incoherent and illogical pirated copy of Shutter Island.
Jan 2018
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Vishwaroop II
...it’s an education to come across a film so badly written, acted and directed.
Aug 2018
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Thugs Of Hindostan
...after sending the pesky writers on long leave, they proceed to throw cash at the the art director, the CGI team, the costume wallas, the extras, the star’s hair stylist, colourist, the carpenters… anything and everything except the story, the dialogue, the writing.
Nov 2018
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The Sky Is Pink
I felt impaled by the film’s relentless emotional badgering, constant telling us, and not showing, how terribly tragic it all is.
Oct 2019
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The Attacks Of 26/11
...26/11 is a subject few would dare to touch, and here RGV deserves credit.
Mar 2013
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The Accidental Prime Minister
...the film, coming as it does in election year, has an agenda — it’s politically motivated. And the motive of this tacky, third-rate propaganda piece is all too apparent in the story it wants us to go home with, and the characters it wants us to hate and love.
Jan 2019
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Teri Meri Kahaani
...doesn’t have a point to make with these three stories except that 'love rocks'.
Jun 2012
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Street Dancer 3D
...true to the simple minded genre of let’s-dance-to-challenge-and-conquer-all, is a chitrahar of grand, impressive, foot-tapping dance performances strung together by a very silly but melodramatic story that carries a moral — love all, hate none.
Jan 2020
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Singh Is Bliing
I watched most Singh is Bling recoiling from the screen despite the fact that Akshay Kumar’s comic timing is good and his big boy goofiness adorable.
Oct 2015
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Shikara
The problem with Shikara is not that it wants to tell the story of a people forced out of their homes. But that it paints the common Kashmiri Muslim as a colluder, an active one at that.
Feb 2020
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Sharafat Gayi Tel Lene
It actually has a strong, interesting plot. But, unfortunately, it places at the centre of its story the two worst possible non-actors.
Jan 2015
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Shaadi Ke Side Effects
...is a greater film on screen than it is on paper because it has the talented Mr Akhtar and Ms Balan. Both bring warmth and a mature, knowing naughtiness to their interactions.
Mar 2014
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Saaho
...given the film’s tortuous, tangled plot involving compromised cops, many fake identities, umpteen car chases and dreary duels involving burly goondas of various ethnicities from East Europe and Africa, what stays with you is a sense of exhaustion, like after a long, wasted day.
Aug 2019
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Rang Rasiya
It establishes that the painter-artist's life is a powerful story that needs to be told by a better, more accomplished director and actors.
Nov 2014
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Rahasya
The film keeps us hooked, but it also irritates. It doesn’t deliver exactly what it promised to, but it does give us the confession we need to hear.
Jan 2015
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Ragini MMS - 2
...a thoroughly enjoyable, full paisa-vasool film in the best tradition of B-grade horror flicks
Mar 2014
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R... Rajkumar
Prabhu Dheva’s films are infantile fantasies that seek to gratify the fragile male ego and libido. Any further analysis of this imbecility would be a waste of time.
Dec 2013
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Queen
...is a well-meaning, well-mannered film that's funny and packs in small, elevating, but palatable messages.
Mar 2014
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Purani Jeans
If you haven’t seen 16, I suggest you dump this film and get a DVD of that one.
May 2014
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PK
We keep getting emotionally overwhelmed in the way Hirani has now mastered. We are putty in his hands. But his tricks are all too transparent and in the end the emotional drubbing leaves you feeling underwhelmed.
Dec 2014
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Pizza
...director Akshay Akkineni more than makes up for his patchy script by his craftsmanship and interesting touches.
Jul 2014
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Phata Poster Nikhla Hero
...the problem is that the film keeps breaking its promise of comic. Not happy being jhallu-mallu, it straightens its clothes and poses, saying I’m not just a parody, I’m a real film.That’s when it gets dull.
Sep 2013
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Pati Patni Aur Woh
...it would have made for a much more engaging retelling of a B.R. Chopra naughty classic.
Dec 2019
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Parched
Writer-director Leena Yadav’s Parched left me, well, rather parched. While in some respects it quenched my thirst, but — to further stretch the sexual hint in the film’s title — mostly it left me high and dry.
Sep 2016
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Panipat
Directors like Gowariker do no service to the nation or their audience by twisting the truth, ignoring military, diplomatic, common sense follies and rewriting history with jingoistic fervour. They condemn us to repeat historical wrongs.
Dec 2019