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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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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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Brothers
It’s difficult to imagine anyone making mixed martial arts cheesier than it already is, but Karan Malhotra manages that here.
Aug 2015
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Jabariya Jodi
It’s been a year of offensively bad films – PM Narendra Modi, Thackeray, Kesari. But anger and disgust will keep you awake, which is more than I can say for Jabariya Jodi.
Aug 2019
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Shaandaar
A film of consistent, determined frivolity. And the fun starts dimming soon.
Oct 2015
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Shaandaar
A portmanteau film with little of the excitement and risk one associates with great short films.
May 2015
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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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Dabangg 3
...is determinedly, proudly stupid – a sadly representative end for a decade of largely unwatchable Hindi action cinema.
Dec 2019
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Jan 2016
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Radhe
...is a supreme drag, and another outing for the trigger-happy enforcer cop in Hindi cinema.
May 2021
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Satyagraha
...ends up looking like a parody of the real-life agitations it so solemnly restages.
Aug 2013
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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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Calendar Girls
...a ‘Madhur Bhandarkar-type film’ is one the worst things you could call a young filmmaker’s work. And yet, the man himself perseveres.
Sep 2015
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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