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Tanhaji
...has fluent action and a gleeful Saif Ali Khan, though its view of history is slanted and broad.
Jan 2020
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Mar 2016
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Zila Ghaziabad
This is Gangs of Wasseypur-lite, retrofitted onto a Dabangg template, and without either’s strong points.
Feb 2013
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Why Cheat India
Hashmi seems to enjoy himself; if the writing was brighter and the other characters had more agency, the film might have played differently.
Jan 2019
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Welcome Back
Over its cruelly prolonged 150-minute running time, Welcome Back treats human intellect with the sort of disdain that’s remarkable, even for Bollywood.
Sep 2015
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Welcome 2 Karachi
The sort of derivative comic slop Arshad Warsi has had to wade through his entire career.
May 2015
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Wazir
Nambiar’s previous films have suffered from screenplays that are less than clever. This one reaches for cleverness, which is just beyond its grasp, and that mars what could have been an unusually dour, taut thriller.
Jan 2016
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Waiting
...walks the line between emotional resonance and emotional manipulation skilfully.
May 2016
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Vishwaroop II
Haasan has full control over Vishwaroop II – he’s the writer, director, co-producer and star – and yet it keeps getting away from him. The film never settles into a satisfying rhythm: irrelevant scenes are stretched beyond reason and important ones are rushed through.
Aug 2018
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Uri
...has incredibly persuasive action sequences, but its military reserve can be stifling.
Jan 2019
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Udta Punjab
It’s fascinating to see how the diverse acting styles of the leads meld or clash with each other throughout the film.
Jun 2016
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Tubelight
It’s nearly always excruciating when an actor with limited talent plays a character with limited intelligence. Normally, the charge against Salman is that he doesn’t do anything; here, he does so much that you’ll be begging for him to go back to his minimalist ways.
Jun 2017
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Trapped
Time games, inventive soundscapes, Rajkummar Rao: there’s lots to love in ‘Trapped’.
Mar 2017
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Total Dhamaal
Not for the first time, Kumar aims for It’s A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World and ends up with It’s a Bad, Bad, Bad, Bad Film.
Feb 2019
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Titli
Unrelentingly grim, morally unmoored, Titli festers like a sore on your consciousness.
Oct 2015
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The Zoya Factor
...offers little cheer to those invested in the return of the Hindi romantic comedy or the halfway-decent post-Lagaan cricket film.
Sep 2019
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The Sky Is Pink
...errs on the side of caution, keeping the impending tragedy in view at all times, but wrapping everything in good vibes and the kind of courage you have no option but to admire.
Oct 2019
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Thappad
There are times you wish Sinha could take some of the weight off his writing with inventive filmmaking. But he isn’t a visual director, and the 142-minute Thappad mostly has the look and rhythms of a stage play.
Feb 2020
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Thackeray
A critical biopic was never on the cards; the only question, really, is how vitriolic it was going to be. Thackeray is 2 hours and 19 minutes, so the hate is spread out. The problem is, the scenes which exist only to praise Thackeray’s altruism and courage are bland. The nasty moments kept me engaged and enraged.
Jan 2019
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Teraa Surroor
This is Reshammiya’s one true achievement. He believed he was a star so fervently that everyone else ended up believing it too.
Mar 2016
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TE3N
...keeps the surprises, not all of which are easy to predict, coming at regular intervals. Whether all these twists make sense, or are entirely fair, is another matter.
Jun 2016
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Tanu Weds Manu Returns
She’s (Kangana Ranaut) also the main reason the film is—even at its silliest—very watchable.
May 2015
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Tamasha
What he might need, though, is a writing partner, someone who can supply him stories and characters that aren’t composites of things he’s written earlier.
Nov 2015
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Talvar
By turns witty and thoughtful, devastating and emotional, it’s up there with Masaan and Dum Laga Ke Haisha and the one or two other stirringly well-written films of the year.
Oct 2015
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Super 30
...is on track as long as it steadily plugs away at the real life story of a teacher in Bihar who coaches underprivileged children for the IIT-JEE examination. But when the film starts to doubt whether this is enough, it comes undone.
Jul 2019
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Jul 2016
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Student Of The Year 2
...provides the answer to the question no one was asking: what if Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikandar was a Johar film?
May 2019