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Main Aur Charles
Critic reviews and ratings
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...tells its tale with calculated intent -- coolly, cleverly, taking its time -- mirroring the dry panache of its self-assured protagonist.
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Watch it for not just an incredible performance by Hooda, but also how smart biopics can be made.
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Prawaal Raman does a commendable job of recreating the 60s-70s. He also gets his protagonist's physicality and smugness bang on.
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You don’t really mind the missing hard-boiled plot, because by the time the film ends, we are treated to well-shot frames and the amazing theme music. Style wins. The seduction is complete.
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The movie is all style and very little soul. And that’s a disappointment as it attempted to tell a really fascinating story of a mastermind. But do watch it, if only for Hooda.
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Bollywood biopics usually tend to be horrendously bloated and overwrought. Main Aur Charles is anything but.
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...is worth a watch for Randeep Hooda alone.
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...the makers have taken truly explosive material and tamed it down, choosing to glamourize the villain to a nauseating level. The film had so much more potential!
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Lots of style. Not substance-less but you can tell that wasn't the focus.
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Prawaal Raman's direction is like the stitching of a tailor who has amazing fabric but isn't quite sure what dress he wants to make.
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Randeep is cool, Adil is terrific but Praawal loses steam midway.
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Director Prawaal Raman has very cleverly delivered the incidents in chunks because we already know a lot about the criminal and therefore the documentary had to be in the specific manner.
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Some parts are confusing and there’s no grip. It’s just one escapade after another.
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Style trumps substance.
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I give too starz bekoz I like muzik, and Charlie baba's spectacles! |
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...begins with confusion and ends with confusion. Baring a few incidences, the film falls short in holding our attention.
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Hooda’s Sobhraj is a cipher, a beautiful surface with no indication of the emotions—if any—that are raging underneath.
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...offers little to the audience: Neither do you get any insight into Shobhraj’s criminal mind, nor do you get to know the motive behind the psychopath’s schemes.
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...investing time to watch this one will only mean making a 'oyal' buffoon of yourself.
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Randeep Hooda has it. He needed a better film.
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...is one big mess, all style and no substance.
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