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Jun 2014
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Jun 2014
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Citylights
The film is as breathless as its protagonists, but there is a certain poetry in its treatment that leaves a mark.
May 2014
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Hawaa Hawaai
When the story is predictable, a tight script and screenplay needs to take charge. Sadly, it doesn’t. The film’s undoing is the expectations it rides on. This one fails to be an Amole Gupte film.
May 2014
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Purani Jeans
If you haven’t seen 16, I suggest you dump this film and get a DVD of that one.
May 2014
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Revolver Rani
...is stocked with many interesting elements, in its story, in the characterisation, in the satire. But the film fails to make its intentions clear.
Apr 2014
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2 States
...the sincere performances and the freshness of the film makes these glitches seem too small.
Apr 2014
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Bhoothnath Returns
...tries to strike a high moral tone in its social messaging, but creatively it doesn’t flinch from being crassly exploitative. It made me cringe so often that I wished this clever concept had been handed over to a directoir with a light touch.
Apr 2014
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Jal
...it takes occasional flight, like a good, compelling dastan. But the film has an intermittently sparse and jam-packed screenplay
Apr 2014
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Main Tera Hero
Keeping things largely distanced from logic, David clearly plays to his strengths. He knows nobody comes looking for any semblance of realism in his films. So he keeps it shamelessly mindless and there is nothing wrong with that.
Apr 2014
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Youngistaan
...thanks to a good script, well-paced screenplay and author-backed performances from appropriately cast actors, Youngistaan makes itself a watchable fare.
Mar 2014
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Dishkiyaoon
Bollywood has two types of films: the intelligent ones and those clichéd “leave-brains-at-home” ones. Dishkiyaaon is a pathbreaker. For we life-loving people, it’s the “bring a noose to the theatre” variety.
Mar 2014
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Mar 2014
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Ragini MMS - 2
...a thoroughly enjoyable, full paisa-vasool film in the best tradition of B-grade horror flicks
Mar 2014
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Bewakoofiyaan
Nupur’s direction is balanced but she lacks the support of a strong lead pair and razor sharp witty lines, which are rom-com staples.
Mar 2014
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Gulaab Gang
Visually the film is seductive – pink saris in sepia dehaat — but its message is scary. While I had severe problems with its glorification of vigilante justice, there were a few moments when I was both thrilled and moved.
Mar 2014
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Queen
...is a well-meaning, well-mannered film that's funny and packs in small, elevating, but palatable messages.
Mar 2014
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Shaadi Ke Side Effects
...is a greater film on screen than it is on paper because it has the talented Mr Akhtar and Ms Balan. Both bring warmth and a mature, knowing naughtiness to their interactions.
Mar 2014
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Highway
With all its pros and cons, here’s one of those films: ponderous enough to encourage a snooze but also with its rewarding side-effects. Needless to emphasise, Veera lingers on in the memory. And Alia Bhatt’s performance is nothing short of extraordinary, especially her solo stanzas of dialogue, executed in long takes.
Feb 2014
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Feb 2014
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Jai Ho
All said and endured, here’s the sort of average product which is immune to criticism. Say anything you honestly feel, down the decades it has been huffed – so what? That doesn’t make a jot of a difference.
Jan 2014
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Miss Lovely
The titillation sought to be vended in Ashim Aluhwalia’s 'Miss Lovely' is strictly of the smirk-smirk variety, suffused with abstractions, cynicism and distractions, great for the international film festival circuit but so off-the-mark and shallow for anyone who has had a smidgen of interest in the C-graders of yore...
Jan 2014
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Yaariyan
...a mind-numbing mishmash of its fatuous predecessors — music videos pretending to be films.
Jan 2014
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Dedh Ishqiya
...is different and it’s audacious – not without its sack of snafus though. It’s a could-see.
Jan 2014
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Mr Joe B. Carvalho
...isn’t likely to catch any sane viewer’s fancy. It’s best deleted as two hours misspent.
Jan 2014
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Dhoom 3
is like a firmament lit up with those old, yellow, 120-watt bulbs, and Aamir Khan a 14 watt CFL bulb. Weak and struggling, he sticks out.
Dec 2013
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R... Rajkumar
Prabhu Dheva’s films are infantile fantasies that seek to gratify the fragile male ego and libido. Any further analysis of this imbecility would be a waste of time.
Dec 2013