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Ek Villain
Apart from a more consistent pace, Ek Villain also needed more detailing and more depth in its characterisation.
Jun 2014
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Gunday
This is not an unwatchable film. It’s simply unremarkable, inconsistent and unoriginal.
Feb 2014
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I Me Aur Main
...director Kapil Sharma is clearly well intentioned, but struggles to provide his film with depth and meaning.
Mar 2013
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Helicopter Eela
...means well, but it ends up as an often fun but almost entirely superficial Mom com, a sort of English Vinglish without depth.
Oct 2018
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A Flying Jatt
The film’s comedy, occasional inventiveness and aura of innocence are what make it effective in its own way, despite the lack of depth.
Aug 2016
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Azhar
...is a superficial look at the life of one of the most enigmatic and intriguing sporting stars this country has ever seen. It is an opportunity lost.
May 2016
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Jul 2014
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Thugs Of Hindostan
Khan, on the other hand, crackles, pops and sparkles as a swashbuckling scoundrel. The writing of his character and his performance are the only reasons why Thugs of Hindostan does not turn out to be a stylishly produced but disastrously dreary repeat of Acharya’s first film, Tashan.
Nov 2018
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Ekk Deewana Tha
...works in places, but is filled with so many incongruities and strikes so many discordant notes that it is hard to get entirely drawn into the story.
Feb 2012
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Sanju
The object of the film is two-fold: to project Dutt as a misguided but well-intentioned man and all-round nice guy, and to scapegoat others for his failings.
Jun 2018
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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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Dear Dad
...is well intentioned but once it sets off on its journey, it does not seem to know where to go.
May 2016
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Laila Majnu
Dear Sajid and Imtiaz, from the space in your minds where that came from, why could you not have thought up a more credible, imaginative adaptation of Laila Majnu? Why?
Sep 2018
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What The Fish
Unremarkable but not entirely avoidable, that’s how I’d describe this film which needed an unrelenting pace, deliberately over-the-top acting, sturdier characters and less minutes of running time to rev it up.
Dec 2013
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Agent Vinod
The issue with Agent Vinod is that it’s trying to achieve a certain coolth but falls flat on its face in the face of impactless writing.
Mar 2012
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Khiladi 786
I don’t mind mindless comedies. My issue is that this one is predictable and flat and just occasionally amusing.
Dec 2012
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Tere Bin Laden Dead Or Alive
...is not crude or distasteful in the manner of low-brow comedies we have seen emerging from Bollywood in the past. It is just proof – since so many people seem to need proof – that comedy is one of the hardest things to achieve in the arts.
Feb 2016
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Heropanti
Heropanti’s story is as half-baked as the means Tiger uses to attract attention to himself.
May 2014
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Sarbjit
The true story of Sarabjit Singh Atwal is a tragedy of gargantuan proportions that is enough to move a rock to tears. Yet director Omung Kumar somehow manages to make a curiously unmoving film out of this inherently heartbreaking story.
May 2016
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Ankur Arora Murder Case
For the sake of good cinema one can only hope that Suhail Tatari gets back on his feet, brushes himself off and finds a great script in which he invests sincerity and conviction, to make a film that’s worthy of his talent. Ankur Arora Murder Case is not that film.
Jun 2013
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Chalk N Duster
It is a mark of Bollywood’s extreme gender bias that the likes of Shabana and Juhi must, more often than not, compromise on quality if they wish to play heroines. These remarkable women deserve better than this clumsy, even if well-meaning, film. So does the teaching profession.
Jan 2016
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Sep 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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Housefull 2
...there is a difference between being cheeky and being distasteful, between being politically incorrect and downright insensitive.
Apr 2012