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One By Two
Critic reviews and ratings
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An attempt at being fun, cute, and philosophical. You wish it were an attempt with more conviction. Yet, a decent TV watch.
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...has some engaging moments, but they are few and far between. The excessive length and the slow pacing also play a spoilsport.
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Debutante Devika's concept might look good on paper, but onscreen it dissipates like diarrhoea.
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There is no dearth of perspiration in screenwriter Devika Bhagat’s directorial debut. She packs quite a lot into the film. Yet it feels wafer-thin.
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Writer-director Devika Bhagat makes a film that's like an elongated sitcom. The film manages to stand initially, but goes quite berserk towards the finale, much like our characters.
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The story by writer-director Devika Bhagat isn’t half-bad but these characters whine too much to be interesting company.
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Witty and funny in parts, One by Two needed to double its dosage of humor and drama to come out with flying colors. Unfortunately it remains a half baked effort to provide any real entertainment.
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...the execution is amiss to the point where it directly affects the performances.
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Great characters, quite a few moments of quirk and some good lines let down by shoddy storytelling.
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...by the end the story just about takes shape. But by then it has already lost any attention that it may have managed to grab.
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Abhay Deol shoots himself in the foot by acting in (and, inexplicably, producing) this monstrosity that sucks all the goodwill out of an actor we usually like, and his apparent girlfriend Preeti Desai hands in the kind of atrocious performance that makes vintage Katrina look like Juhi Chawla.
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This is a case of missed opportunities. Trying for likeability is tough when the film is saddled with a listless plot and pace.
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...tries hard to break the mold of Bollywood rom-coms, but seldom offers scenarios or characters that are refreshingly original.
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Interesting premise, but then that’s about it. From the first scene onwards, the story, direction and dialogues go on a downward spiral. Thirty minutes into the film, and you start thinking of all that you could have done with those precious two hours.
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After a while, the film begins to feel like an academic experiment: Can the lives of two not-terribly-interesting people be shaped into an interesting story?
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...is experimental cinema. While those involved seem to be having a gala time, the audience becomes the guinea pigs.
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...there’s ample beating around the bush throughout the film and by the time it reaches to its main point you are just pakaoed.
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...mashes together typical rom-com ingredients with indie-style improvisation, but the result is sequences that play on for too long and moments that work in isolation but never as part of the big picture.
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A decent romcom idea on paper translates into an extraordinarily dull movie on screen.
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The search for the first contender of the 'Worst Films of 2014 list' ends right here.
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I've no doubt there are many great existential profundities that writer-director Devika Bhagat believes she’s addressing with this film. As the teenagers I know would say: it’s deep. Very deep, indeed. So deep that I drowned in a sea of boredom and just managed to escape.
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They used to serve a bowl of soup, one by two. Now they serve a bowl of cinematic goulash in the same portion. It’s inedible but nonetheless it’s being served at a multiplex near you.
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