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Entertainment
What else does one say of a film that makes Humshakals seem like it had substance and Kick seem cerebral in comparison? Nothing, I guess.
Aug 2014
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Jul 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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Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhania
...is really funny in places, but it’s so insubstantial, unimaginative and regressive that that’s just not enough.
Jul 2014
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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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Humshakals
...is as flat as cola from a bottle that’s been left open for a year. Read that clearly please:
Jun 2014
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Fugly
...a well-intentioned film that suffers from weak direction, lack of focus and overly melodramatic, over-used music.
Jun 2014
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Holiday
The problem with Holiday is that the formulaic comedy and romance end up diluting the thriller that it is intended to be, while the entire film is weighed down by its senselessness.
Jun 2014
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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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Kochadaiiyaan
You can’t assume that a film will be effective merely because it crosses a new frontier in technology and stars an acting legend. That, unfortunately, is what debutant director Soundarya Rajinikanth Ashwin has done...
May 2014
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Kaanchi
It’s always sad to watch the decline of a once successful artiste. Sadder still to write this review. There is just one word to describe Kaanchi: boring.
Apr 2014
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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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2 States
With all its flaws, it touches the heart and had me rooting for Ananya and Krish to end up together. When that happens in a film, you know it’s worked.
Apr 2014
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Dekh Tamasha Dekh
This is a film that should be compulsory viewing in social science classes across the country.
Apr 2014
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Bhoothnath Returns
...until it gets confused about what it wants to be – feature film or docu, children’s film or adult fare, light-hearted entertainer with a message or dead serious – Bhoothnath Returns is a lot of fun.
Apr 2014
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Main Tera Hero
It’s nowhere close to Dhawan’s best, but it’s got enough paisa vasool elements to remind us of how ridiculously brilliant the man was when he peaked with Govinda in the 1990s.
Apr 2014
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Apr 2014
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Mar 2014
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Youngistaan
Despite all this going for it, Youngistaan still ends up feeling flat and dull for three reasons: inconsistent writing, inconsistent direction and a weak lead actor.
Mar 2014
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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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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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Highway
...with all this going for it plus an unpredictable ending, Highway cannot escape from the burden of its sketchy, incomplete feel.
Feb 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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One By Two
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.
Jan 2014
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Jan 2014
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Dedh Ishqiya
Nothing in this film is what it seems. Not even the genre. It’s a thriller, yet it stubbornly refuses to be frenetic, revealing its cards one step at a time, at its very own pace, as if teasing the viewer or cajoling us to forget that there might be another twist coming up.
Jan 2014