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Yamla Pagla Deewana Phir Se
In 2013, one wished we had seen the last of Yamla Pagla Deewana. Five years later, the wish remains the same – just much more fervently.
Aug 2018
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Kabir Singh
Kabir Singh and its Telugu forebear Arjun Reddy must rank among the most disturbing examples of the obsessive stalker hero being glamourised by Indian cinema.
Jun 2019
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Shaandaar
...is exactly the opposite of its title. It's sloppily written, lazily directed and completely without insight.
Oct 2015
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Khamoshiyan
Even if you have an extremely active imagination and are lily-livered, it's difficult to feel any fear while watching Khamoshiyan. Everything is absurdly fake.
Jan 2015
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Malaal
...an inexorably dull retelling of the clichéd conviction so many people hold in real life: that a good woman can reform even the worst of men.
Jul 2019
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MSG
Why the film faced any ban is a mystery. You can laugh with the movie, and more so at the movie. It’s a win win.
Feb 2015
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Jan 2016
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Raaz Reboot
Cliched and boring, one would be tempted to walk out of the movie in the first 10 minutes, but what if the second half got better? Bad news, second half is worse.
Sep 2016
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Tuesdays & Fridays
...is too besotted with the idea of delivering a standard Bollywood romance to ever really say something worthy of its own.
Feb 2021
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Jalebi
...aspires to portray new-age romance and contemporary relationships. It aspires, but fails miserably.
Oct 2018
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I Love NY
It's shoddily shot, terribly dubbed and saddled with an absolutely rubbish screenplay.
Jul 2015
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Jai Mummy Di
It is so poorly conceived and so so ordinary, that you have to wonder why this plain film was ever made. Seriously, why?
Jan 2020
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Pyaar Ka Punchnama 2
...thinks the only way to get laughs is by making the women ridiculous. The film promotes prejudice and camouflaged in its 'insights' are offensive stereotypes that you'd hope modern India would want to shatter rather than reinforce.
Oct 2015
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PM Narendra Modi
...falls into the so-bad-it-could-be-fun category, except that it is not fun at all – it is, instead, an insult to viewer intelligence and viewer knowledge.
May 2019
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Welcome 2 Karachi
Director Ashish Mohan demonstrates with panache that stupid films are the cornerstone of fine art.
May 2015
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Coffee With D
...made me angry because it has managed to come to theatres and get good time slots in prime halls despite being a zero, while some excellent small films never manage a theatrical release.
Jan 2017
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May 2021
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Feb 2020