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Nov 2015
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X: Past is Present
...emerges from an interesting experimental concept that comes to naught.
Nov 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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Titli
...is one of the most gripping Hindi films to come to theatres this year. It is entertaining in a hard-to-explain sort of way because it is so heart-stoppingly matter of fact about the horrific, sad, almost bizarre reality check it delivers.
Oct 2015
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Shaandaar
Team Shaandaar is clearly aiming at a certain quirkiness that it fails to achieve for the most part.
Oct 2015
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Oct 2015
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Jazbaa
All the megawatt casting, stylish camerawork and blue-gray tints in the world cannot alter the fact that when it comes down to brass tacks and a scrutiny of the climax, Jazbaa is a hollow film.
Oct 2015
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Singh Is Bliing
SIB’s lack of substance makes it forgettable, but while it lasts it is a pleasant, mostly harmless, rib-tickling, side-splitting affair.
Oct 2015
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Sep 2015
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Sep 2015
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Welcome 2 Karachi
As it stands, W2K’s narrative is looser than the drawstrings on a pair of pyjamas that are falling off their wearer.
Aug 2015
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Phantom
...is what we Indians call “timepass”. Considering the subject matter, it should have been more, but as it is, it’s what we Indians additionally call a “one-time watch”.
Aug 2015
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Drishyam
What makes this Drishyam (even) more interesting than the original though, is the tweaking – both in the casting and writing – of its women and the central man-woman relationship.
Aug 2015
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Masaan
There can be no greater measure of the effectiveness of a film than that the dreams of its characters become ours, their heartbreaks become our heartbreaks, their joys our very own. That is the kind of film sweet little Masaan is.
Jul 2015
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Bajrangi Bhaijaan
I can’t remember the last time I enjoyed a Salman Khan film so much.
Jul 2015
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Guddu Rangeela
For the most part then, Guddu Rangeela remains engaging because of the balancing act it achieves between its grim subject and its light touch.
Jul 2015
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Miss Tanakpur Haazir Ho
...could have sparked off a discussion on the subject, but in its confusion about the tone it should take and in the absence of a commitment to the cause it seems to be espousing, it ends up being a lukewarm film.
Jun 2015
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ABCD - Any Body Can Dance - 2
If only a teeny bit more attention had been paid to the writing of ABCD 2, this could have been a great film. Well, even with its blemishes, it is remarkably entertaining.
Jun 2015
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Hamari Adhuri Kahani
Spectacularly sexist and spectacularly boring – that’s a lethal combination. It hurts to see Vidya in such a film.
Jun 2015
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Dil Dhadakne Do
...is not flawless, but barring that nutty ending, I had a rollicking good time watching it because it is funny, believable and sweet, the cast is lovely and most of all, because now that I’ve seen it, I’ve fallen in love with both Ranveer Singh and Anil Kapoor.
Jun 2015
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Tanu Weds Manu Returns
Despite its jumbled story and this undercurrent of misogyny, it’s hard to write off the film. Because when the going gets good the dialogues are killers and because of the immaculate acting.
May 2015
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Bombay Velvet
...is a film that’s trying to be American or something like it; a film in which Kashyap, it would appear, is trying to be someone else.
May 2015
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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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Gabbar Is Back
You need better writing and overall packaging to pull off unapologetic nonsense. GIB falls flat on its face.
May 2015
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Court
It’s the simplest of films, yet unimaginably complex. It’s straightforward yet marvelously thoughtful. In its understatement lies melodrama. In its refusal to dress itself up lies its richness.
Apr 2015
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NH10
...is never less than compelling. It is from start to finish a thoroughly absorbing film.
Mar 2015