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Apr 2014
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Tezz
Even if you can get past the foolishness of this premise, Tezz has little to offer.
Apr 2012
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Bol Bachchan
...mediocre entertainment, which is almost depressing in its repetitiveness. A fitting label would be: The Cinema of Exhaustion.
Jul 2012
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Gulaab Gang
For a real dose of women empowerment, watch Gulabi Gang, a terrific documentary on Sampat Pal, which is still running in select theaters. Gulaab Gang is the masala remix.
Mar 2014
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Ekk Deewana Tha
Menon struggles to achieve grand emotion but the story is thin and the telling, insipid.
Feb 2012
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Oct 2013
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Bewakoofiyaan
...it’s going to take a better script than this to make me summon emotion for out-of-work yuppies.
Mar 2014
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Son Of Sardaar
...is exhausting, painfully loud and way too long, with too few laughs.
Nov 2012
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Mastram
There are so many ideas here about writing, sexual desire, fantasy, hypocrisy, the artist in the market-place, but they remain unexplored. Mastram is an opportunity lost.
May 2014
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Jism - 2
...should have been way more fun than this. The film is an anti-climactic let-down.
Aug 2012
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Oct 2013
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Heropanti
...is designed to do exactly one thing — make us like Tiger Shroff, and that it does exceedingly well.
May 2014
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Ragini MMS - 2
The problem is that the characters are such insipid, low-IQ cretins that you are hoping that the murderous chudail gets them soon. The writing is so sloppy that eventually it becomes unintentionally funny.
Mar 2014
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Chaurahen
...brims with tortured souls, pensive silences, meaningful looks and meals left unfinished. Not surprisingly, it’s a slog of a film.
Mar 2012
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Khiladi 786
Box office figures suggest that many people enjoy this school of cheerfully moronic cinema, but Khiladi 786 really isn’t my idea of a good time.
Dec 2012
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Satyagraha
If good intentions were enough to make good movies, Satyagraha would be a masterpiece.
Sep 2013
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One By Two
The story by writer-director Devika Bhagat isn’t half-bad but these characters whine too much to be interesting company.
Feb 2014
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Heroine
At one point in Heroine, a character asks: Iss glamour industry mein kaun fraud nahin hota. This film certainly is one.
Sep 2012
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Apr 2012
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Table No. 21
...director Aditya Datt creates a reality game show-revenge saga that gathers some steam in the last act, but by then it’s too little, too late.
Jan 2013
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Main Tera Hero
...is dumbed down by design. I have no issues with that. My problem is that the frenzied plot didn’t deliver enough funny lines.
Apr 2014
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Housefull 2
...has exactly the same mix of stars, foreign locations, farcical plot and spectacularly dim-witted comedy as the first Housefull. This is the cinematic equivalent of junk food - when you walk in, you know exactly what you're going to get.
Apr 2012
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Jun 2014
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Jun 2012
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Aiyyaa
...parts of Aiyyaa have energy and passion. But it is drowned by the insistence on being wakda - crooked. Clearly wackiness can't carry a film.
Oct 2012
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Jan 2013
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Maximum
Can we all agree that Bollywood has squeezed as much cinema as is humanly possible out of Mumbai’s infamous encounter cops, their weasel-faced informers and the police-politician-builder-underworld nexus?
Jun 2012
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Dec 2013