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Bombay Talkies
...a unique experiment that works very well. The collaboration between four leading directors suggests a confidence that was rare in the industry even a decade ago.
May 2013
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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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Apr 2012
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Bhoothnath Returns
...is unnecessarily bloated. It has far too much sermonising. The narrative is simplistic and naïve. And yet I recommend that you see the film — because it is also heartfelt, genuinely moving and, for the first half at least, slyly funny.
Apr 2014
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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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Barfi!
...for me, Barfi was a singularly frustrating experience there was so much to like, but the film never became more than the sum of its parts.
Sep 2012
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B.A. Pass
...holds your interest as long as Bahl sticks to Sikka’s darkly twisted story. But each time he diverges — including his choice of the film’s cheesy name (Sikka’s story is titled The Railway Aunty) — the narrative wobbles.
Aug 2013
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Arjun
...is a step forward for Indian animation. I only wish the storytelling itself had been more animated.
May 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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Agent Vinod
...never becomes more than the sum of its parts and even though it picks up speed in the second half, it leaves you both exhausted and unsatisfied.
Mar 2012
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Feb 2013
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Apr 2014