An archive of Hindi movie reviews and ratings from 2010 to 2020.

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  • ...sets off to celebrate complex characters and dysfunctional relationships, with the universal emotion of love at its core. It creates some emotional moments along the way, but doesn’t quite leave you spellbound.

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  • ...is strictly for the youth and romantic at heart.

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  • ...may not be accepted or embraced with open arms, the way we have other films of the same genre, this one will have either solid or scathing reactions, since we all define love differently.

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  • ...it's all done in such a haphazard manner that you tend to lose interest. Or rather, you don't invest emotionally in the characters.

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  • ...is an audacious, if flawed, ode to love as a quest for happiness and self-realization that often triggers conflicting emotions and unsettling impulses but never fails to enrich the soul.

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  • ...is a film that’s for the millennials only because it’s a modern day love story but even then, it needed a way better treatment.

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  • ...a melodramatic mess that drains the viewer.

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  • A few of Ali’s gambles pay off up until the interval, at which point the 141-minute movie launches into freefall, never to recover. Love Aaj Kal is crammed with non-sequitur conversations and faux philosophical musings, but the best bits are the dialogue-free montages, which reflect the beauty and purity of timeless ardour that the film seems to be aiming for.

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  • ...is a confounding film about confused people. Perhaps writer-director Imtiaz Ali was attempting to have the storytelling reflect the emotions of his leads. The result is an unholy mess.

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  • Another ‘Love Aaj Kal’, same Imtiaz Ali.

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  • A poorly conceived reboot that's overlong, overdramatic and overdone, Love Aaj Kal simply cannot differentiate between pyaar and parody.

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  • To see that Sara and even Kartik, who hasn't really cemented his foot as an actor but clearly wants to, have surrendered themselves to Imtiaz Ali, and then ended up with a poorly written script, limited characterisation and sub-par direction, is heartbreaking.

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  • In the faux intensity and pointless philosophising of his newer lot of films the soul goes entirely missing and a turgidity underlines the telling.

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  • I came away with a feeling of being comprehensively let down: where has the craft gone, and where, indeed, the heart?

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  • I kept waiting for the plot to kick in and knock my heart and warm my soul. It never happened. In fact the movie had the body but lacked the soul.

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  • ...is pretty awful and dreadfully boring. It’s also overlong and hammy. The pursuit of romantic fulfilment has seldom felt so banal.

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  • Boring. Even for romantics like me.

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  • ...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. 

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  • It’s the unholiest of cash-grabs — and an all-time low for its writer-director.

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  • What is confounding is that the refined film technique we have seen and liked in his oeuvre, goes missing here. This movie looks and sounds like a bad student film.

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  • ...is pretentious, verbose and thoroughly insufferable.

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