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Marjaavaan
...this illegitimate offspring of many B-grade items mating with each other is worse than C-grade. It is third-rate.
Nov 2019
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Chaarfutiya Chhokare
The film has a few nice frames and exactly two interesting moments, but they are spoilt by inept acting and lines that should never have been written.
Sep 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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Teri Meri Kahaani
...doesn’t have a point to make with these three stories except that 'love rocks'.
Jun 2012
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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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Gabbar Is Back
...a hectic, loud film that skids from one episode to another introducing characters — all prefabricated, one-dimensional ones necessary for simulating a vigilante melodrama — and pushing the story to its inevitable end.
May 2015
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Mastizaade
Arre bhai, here we are, with cinema tickets. Corrupt us, please. But for that Bollywood will have to man-up first and stop pretending we are a nation of gurgling morons who get off on montages of cleavage.
Feb 2016
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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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Badlapur Boys
The kabaddi playing boys are not bad either. Only trouble is that all they mutter “kabaddi, kabaddi” in a decidedly third-rate story where the moral victory is, well, a dud.
Dec 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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Malang
Mohit Suri’s film is set in Goa for a reason. It allows him to show smoking, drinking, drugs, rave parties, lots of skin and random sex without having to bother about a story. So, he didn’t bother.
Feb 2020
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Gour Hari Dastaan
Anant Mahadevan is a repeat offender. He picks up an interesting topic and then proceeds to ruin it. Almost always.
Aug 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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Love Aaj Kal
...has an annoying, irritating, glacial pace, and at some point after interval, I tried to fix my glare at the head of the man sitting in front, to check the speed at which hair grows.
Feb 2020
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My Birthday Song
...is needlessly convoluted and so annoyingly pretentious that you want the whole thing to be bleeped out of your memory.
Jan 2018
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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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Vodka Diaries
...is a very bad, very poor, often-incoherent and illogical pirated copy of Shutter Island.
Jan 2018
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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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Daawat-e-Ishq
...pulls out all sorts of tricks to distract us from what’s essentially a cureless dud, a no-go, a film which really has a one-to-thousand chance of being remembered for anything except that it got made and got a theatre release. It’s eminently forgettable.
Sep 2014
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Aug 2012
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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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Department
Yet, Department is important. Because it is the story from a genius in decay.
May 2012
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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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Vishwaroop II
...it’s an education to come across a film so badly written, acted and directed.
Aug 2018