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Raavan
Raavan falls for Sita (and vice versa) in an intriguingly idiosyncratic take on the Ramayana – if you can get past the lead performances, that is.
Jun 2010
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Band Baaja Baaraat
A beautifully textured romcom with flesh-and-blood characters instead of lazy caricatures.
Dec 2010
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Barfi!
I was trying to think of another film that’s so sad that made me feel so happy watching it. I still haven’t come up with a name.
Sep 2012
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Rocket Singh
...charming, minor-key movie about material that might have been better served belted out with brassy energy.
Dec 2009
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Sep 2017
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Dhobi Ghat
Forget the rangy big points. It’s the sculpted small-moment that marks this elegant elegy to Mumbai.
Jan 2011
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Aug 2013
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Yeh Saali Zindagi
An entertaining screwball-noir is also in the running for the year’s unlikeliest love story.
Feb 2011
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Dec 2016
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Judgemental Hai Kya
It’s just that the film is far more convincing as an art installation about a mental condition than as a whodunit, whydunit or did anyone indeed dunit in the first place!
Jul 2019
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Pink
may be the first film to literally bridge the divide between the (perceived) sensibilities of the multiplex audience and those that frequent single screens.
Sep 2016
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Sep 2018
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Talvar
Bhardwaj writes the hell out the film. Have I said this earlier? I’ll say it again. Talvar is a smashing return to form for him...
Oct 2015
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Mukkabaaz
I loved Mukkabaaz, but it took me a while to put a frame on it, to decide how to look at it. Kashyap’s reputation is so festooned with international art-house hosannas – screenings at Cannes! reviews in Variety! – that it’s easy to forget how rooted in Hindi cinema he is.
Jan 2018
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Highway
The feeling that we’re on a journey with no use for beginnings or ends is exhilarating.
Feb 2014
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Jul 2015
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Ferrari Ki Sawaari
So much of Ferrari Ki Sawaari is so original, so one-of-a-kind, that part of the fun of watching the film is just seeing where it will go next.
Jun 2012
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May 2016
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Gangs Of Wasseypur
...a diffuse epic, content to coast around the revenge plot instead of making it the thrust of its narrative – and what the film loses in terms of dramatic power, it gains in texture.
Jun 2012
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May 2015
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Jagga Jasoos
The left half, he says, is logical. The right half is mad, magical. Anurag Basu has made a right-brain movie. I’m not sure it can be defended logically, and I’m not sure I care when the result is so mad, so magical.
Jul 2017
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Andhadhun
Despite questionable second-half detours, Sriram Raghavan’s new film is a most entertaining ride.
Oct 2018
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Soorma
An affecting biopic that, refreshingly, stays grounded and alert to its human beats.
Jul 2018
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Dabangg
Two films for the price of one - an entertaining, star-centric potboiler, plus a delicately textured relationship drama.
Sep 2010
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Luv Shuv Tey Chicken Khurana
Family is the motor that revs up this wonderful romance, which is as much about the ways we love people as the ways we love food – and this is only fitting in a film whose title embraces both "luv" and "chicken."
Nov 2012
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Jan 2019