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Khajoor Pe Atke
Despite a promising theme, Khajoor Pe Atke is somewhere lost in translation. Thanks to Manoj and Seema Pahwa’s terrific comic timing, the audience bears to sit through this 120-minute botched up relationship drama.
May 2018
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Housefull
Laughter is the subject; a laugh, being a subjective thing, of course. So, laughing gas is forced into the climax. Canned laughter should elicit even more collective laughs. You want to pause for breath. Your brains deserve a break.
May 2010
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Mar 2014
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One Night Stand
...I can’t really recommend One Night Stand. But I think we need to acknowledge another marker in the evolution of the Hindi film heroine.
May 2016
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Lamhaa
It's not easy to make sense of Kashmir. It's harder still then to make sense of this film.
Jul 2010
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May 2011
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Speedy Singhs
Few funny lines apart, you sense some script-guru's spreadsheet (Syd Field's?) being directly turned into a generic screenplay.
Sep 2011
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Fitoor
Melodrama and a superficial love story are some of the road blocks that hinder a beautiful cinematic journey Abhishek Kapoor wanted to take you on.
Feb 2016
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Meri Pyaari Bindu
While the nostalgic references will ensure smiles keep making fleeting appearances on your face, the film won’t quite make you root for the characters.
May 2017
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Jail
What we may have liked to know, like with any story, is something more about the hero himself — his past, his conflicts, his shattered dreams. It could’ve greatly helped with the sorely missed empathy.
Nov 2009
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Jul 2013
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Bobby Jasoos
For all the fun that Vidya is, Bobby Jasoos ends up a bit too abrupt -- in the end, we don't know if Bobby eventually became a jasoos. We also don't know what happened to the Ali-Vidya love story.
Jul 2014
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Happy New Year
I have a very high tolerance level for anything Shah Rukh is in, and yet Happy New Year was a slog.
Oct 2014
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Rocky Handsome
...a very average film with some finely executed action sequences on display.
Mar 2016
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Dabangg 3
It’s quite impressive to be honest, achieving this level of pomp and show with such little substance for inspiration.
Dec 2019
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Badmaash Company
The picture’s premise is strong. The setting is solid. The scam’s quite awesome. The friends make for quite a foursome. All are equally endearing. As are their antics. And then the screen flashes, Interval. Everything dopily goes down a slope thereafter, and onward to America, arrogance and all that jazz.
May 2010
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Rakht Charitra – I
Doesn't hurt, if you can take this much of it in one go. There's another installment on its way, if you’re bloodthirsty still. Huh!
Oct 2010
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Aarakshan
...tries so hard to be equally "massy, mainstream". It ends up being neither. A fine opportunity is lost.
Aug 2011
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Lanka
Picture looks real. Posturing is correct. Accents may be inconsistent, dramebaazi's full-on.
Dec 2011
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Ragini MMS - 2
Don't watch it if you are a serious horror lover. Go for it if you can appreciate Grand Masti humour and Sunny Leone's body.
Mar 2014
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Happy Ending
I suspect that somewhere in there was a genuinely sparkling and subversive love story. Sadly, it never emerges.
Nov 2014
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Nov 2016
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Vodka Diaries
...is about under-utilised actors and losing a promising opening. It probably needed a more thorough approach.
Jan 2018
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Mission Mangal
...while there are times Mission Mangal plays out pleasantly enough as a cheesy entertainer with a message, complete with a caricaturish villain in Dalip Tahil with an unholy accent, there are other times everything feels like too much of a stretch — even the runtime.
Aug 2019
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Baaghi 3
There are a mind-numbing 140 minutes of this; thankfully Tiger is kicking and punching during most of it.
Mar 2020
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Mar 2010
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Purani Jeans
...might be a one-time watch for some college friends who are planning to be friends forever. Got the drift?
May 2014
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Sanam Re
To be fair with the team of Sanam Re, it’s not a bad watch. It’s not a great watch either.
Feb 2016
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We Are Family
...the pathos here is produced not from moments, but from performances alone: a stunning Kajol’s in particular.
Sep 2010
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Rocky Handsome
Way too much time and effort is spent showcasing the leading man — John’s body is a no-carb miracle and Kamat fetishises it.
Mar 2016