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Article 15
...might not comfort the afflicted, but there’s every chance it will afflict the comfortable.
Jun 2019
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Angrezi Medium
A film about a free and loving father-daughter relationship becomes a closed circuit. It’s that old cliché about setting someone free if you love them and seeing if they come back.
Mar 2020
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Aligarh
...an even bigger victory for the film might lie in getting vaguely homophobic viewers to empathize with Siras, to understand his distaste for easy labels, to admit that even they sit in the dark with a drink and listen to old Hindi film songs.
Feb 2016
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AK vs AK
The one-line is irresistible—“Anurag Kashyap kidnaps Anil Kapoor’s daughter”—but it’s still sketch material. Blown up to feature-length, it plays like a grungy, scrappy vanity project.
Dec 2020
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Ajji
...is one of the most unsettling experiences you’ll have at the movies this year. Whether it adds up to much more than exploitation-art is another question.
Nov 2017
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Ae Dil Hai Mushkil
Instead of confronting its central question—what do you do if the person you love doesn’t love you back?—the film sidesteps it with a shameless deus ex machina.
Oct 2016
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Jun 2015
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AkaashVani
The ending is straight out of a TV serial, though Bharucha salvages enough from it to mark her as someone worth keeping an eye on.
Jan 2013
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A Gentleman
By the truly dismal standards of Indian action comedies, A Gentleman is a middling offender—but what does that even mean?
Aug 2017
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A Flying Jatt
...is derivative, sloppily structured and, especially in its latter stages, tacky beyond belief. That it might also be the best Indian superhero film ever (barring Mr India, if that qualifies) is an indication of how low the bar is set.
Aug 2016