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Revolver Rani
...has many wonderful moments and ideas, but as a whole it’s neither satirical enough nor farcical enough nor intense enough nor thrilling enough to be what it seems to want to be.
Apr 2014
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Rangoon
The Bhardwaj who made Maqbool, Omkara and Haider is a man perfectly suited to a film like Rangoon. Sadly, without the writing brilliance of the director’s Shakespeare trilogy, Rangoon gets many things right, but fails to come together as an involving, engaging whole.
Feb 2017
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Ranchi Diaries
To be fair, Ranchi Diaries is not repulsive or puke-worthy or anything of that sort. It is just one of those thingies that makes you want to ask: why did anyone bother to make this? Seriously, why?
Oct 2017
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Raman Raghav 2.0
...is layered, gripping from the word go, unnerving and, in a twisted way, hugely entertaining.
Jun 2016
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Ramaiya Vastavaiya
...if I could sue for the over two hours of my life lost to this film, I would.
Jul 2013
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Raid
This is not the kind of fare you might expect to set your pulses racing, but that is precisely what it achieves in its closing scenes. Raid is not regular Bollywood. What it is though is thoroughly entertaining.
Mar 2018
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Ragini MMS - 2
...could have been better but as things stand, given the space it inhabits and the promises it makes, I enjoyed more about it than I did not.
Mar 2014
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Raees
The first half of Raees is supremely interesting and filled with promise. Besides, Shah Rukh Khan is a joy to watch in this new, exploratory innings of his career. The second half lets him down though. Style trumping substance is rarely a good thing for a film.
Jan 2017
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Race 3
...is an example of a franchise failing to recognise its own strengths and shooting itself in the foot in the bargain.
Jun 2018
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Race 2
...there’s a bit of mindless fun to be had with Race 2, but for the most part it is such an unimaginative replication of Race 1 that it’s hard not to feel taken for granted as a viewer.
Jan 2013
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Rabba Main Kya Karoon
...is a cliché. To make matters worse, it’s lackadaisically acted, poorly edited, unimaginatively directed and stars two uncharismatic actors in the lead.
Aug 2013
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Raazi
...is an espionage venture with heart and soul tempering its gritty core. Even as it kept me on the edge of my seat for its entire 140 minutes, it broke my heart.
May 2018
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Sep 2012
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Raanjhanaa
...confused, confusing, all over the place and, beyond a point, tiresome and dull.
Jun 2013
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Raag Desh
If you plan to watch it, do not go looking for Border or LOC Kargil. This one is more akin to Sankalp Reddy’s Telugu/Hindi The Ghazi Attack (2017), albeit even more under-played and also less swish on the production front. Raag Desh is a docu-drama, not a high-pitched weepie.
Aug 2017
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Raabta
It is hard to imagine why Vijan chose to make his directorial debut with this unremarkable enterprise in which Sushant Singh Rajput, Kriti Sanon and pretty visuals are all drowned out by tedium.
Jun 2017
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R... Rajkumar
It fizzles out though as the film becomes gradually indistinguishable from Rowdy Rathore, Khiladi 786, Boss and others that have emerged from the factory.
Dec 2013
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Queen
In a sense, it’s a sign that Bollywood too is coming of age. Queen is a royal triumph.
Mar 2014
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Qarib Qarib Singlle
...is fun in bits and pieces mostly in the first half, but conflicted about what it wants to say and, therefore, tedious beyond a point.
Nov 2017
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Oct 2015
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Prem Ratan Dhan Payo
...half-baked, lifeless, low-IQ film with its juvenile humour and family politics that resembles circumstances in the cheapest saas-bahu soaps now running on Hindi fiction TV.
Nov 2015
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Policegiri
"Assault on the senses" is such a critics' cliché. Films like this are why the phrase is indispensable though.
Jul 2013
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PK
...is not as brilliant as Hirani’s Munnabhai 1&2, but it’s still an excellent film that throws up surprises every step of the way. It had me laughing out loud then crying like a baby. It broke my heart then raised my spirits.
Dec 2014
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Pizza
I was scared witless in the first half of Pizza. The second half slows down, but it still had me hooked.
Jul 2014
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Sep 2016
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Piku
...is both moving and rip-roaringly funny. It is also an extremely intelligent film that is modest about its intelligence.
May 2015
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Pihu
Kapri’s debut feature, Miss Tanakpur Haazir Ho, was marked by the same tendency to bite off more sociological profundities than he could chew.
Nov 2018