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Mar 2014
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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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Gulaab Gang
Visually the film is seductive – pink saris in sepia dehaat — but its message is scary. While I had severe problems with its glorification of vigilante justice, there were a few moments when I was both thrilled and moved.
Mar 2014
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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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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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Yaariyan
...a mind-numbing mishmash of its fatuous predecessors — music videos pretending to be films.
Jan 2014
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Dhoom 3
is like a firmament lit up with those old, yellow, 120-watt bulbs, and Aamir Khan a 14 watt CFL bulb. Weak and struggling, he sticks out.
Dec 2013
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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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Krrish 3
...the film is based on a screenplay that’s creative in parts — it focuses on creating curious villains, even adding a provocative familial side-story. And it has some stunning CGI stunts and visuals.
Nov 2013
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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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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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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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Chor Chor Super Chor
...what the film lacks in pace, it more than makes up with its hysterical and quick con tricks and crisp, funny dialogue.
Aug 2013
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Bajatey Raho
...crude, functional only in fits and starts, and with broken bits taped together.
Jul 2013
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Jul 2013
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Hum Hai Raahi CAR Ke
There is no reason for 'Hum Hai Raahi Car Ke' to exist except that producer-director Jyotin Goel’s son, Dev Goel, is now of kissable age and has acquired muscles - feats that daddy dear thinks deserve a public audience.
May 2013
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Aurangzeb
The film’s story, though predictable, proceeds with impressive self-assuredness and packs in that very rare item, an interesting, thrilling climax after several surprising twists.
May 2013
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Bombay Talkies
One is rather good, one is middling, one seems to have missed the point of the concept entirely, and one pays homage to a hero and our cinema in such a backhanded fashion that I wondered why the director bothered.
May 2013
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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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Joker
...is a bit of this and a bit of that. We buy the story of Paglapur because the whole premise is so mental, so random. But when Joker turns around and does exactly what it has been mocking all this while, it stinks.
Sep 2012
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Aug 2012
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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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May 2012
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Department
Yet, Department is important. Because it is the story from a genius in decay.
May 2012
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Bittoo Boss
...is desperate to be different, specifically from Band Baaja Baaraat. And it is; it’s not half as good.
Apr 2012
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Agneepath
...this Agneepath is more than a remake or a homage to the original. It’s about a son righting a wrong and this emotion makes us connect with the film immediately.
Jan 2012