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Soundtrack
You can still tell a bunch of Bandroids trying hard. Something genuine, off-centre, Indian, original, and cutting image, will eventually emerge from efforts like these. Until then, I guess, we should just bear with these.
Oct 2011
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Rascals
This one defies a film. You just lose interest after a while. As do the filmmakers. At some point, out of the blue, they just abandon the whole project...
Oct 2011
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Chargesheet
A regular film at a multiplex: Rs 250. A post-90s Dev Anand phenomenon: Priceless.
Sep 2011
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Saheb Biwi Aur Gangster
...admirably inspired, is almost a sophomore effort. As you'd know, that's a pretty hefty compliment to pay.
Sep 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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Mausam
Setting out with a script with better drama, leave aside a plot, could've helped its scale more.
Sep 2011
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Jaana Pehchana
Tell me another movie that uniquely offers you time-travel and lessons in pop-culture history such as this, and I'll hand you over the right side of my brain that seems to me a bit wobbly right now anyway.
Sep 2011
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Mere Brother Ki Dulhan
...unnecessarily complicated, tiring, lame mess the hero finds himself in, merely to serve the purpose of an over-imagined plot.
Sep 2011
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Sep 2011
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That Girl in Yellow Boots
It is, what they call, a quickie: As true for the movie's subject, as for its unsatisfying outcome.
Sep 2011
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Bodyguard
Here's what this film's super-star should do next. Pick up, remake every regional blockbuster of Rajnikanth's from the recent past. That's what super-hero, cartoon character Salman is to the Hindi audiences by now: Rajnikanth for the excitable North.
Sep 2011
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Aug 2011
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Not A Love Story
We delve deeper into neither the young dream-chasers of a scary celeb industry nor chilling procedurals of an infamous police case, let alone the juicy tabloid drama that followed it. The narrative is predictably linear. Tsk. Waste.
Aug 2011
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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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Chala Mussaddi - Office Office
Television, free chewing gum for the brain, rarely demands half as much as a fully consuming film on the big screen in a dark theatre does.
Aug 2011
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Gandhi To Hitler
This stuff's hilarious. If only one didn't have to watch a whole frikin' film for it.
Jul 2011
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Bubble Gum
The pic is a sweet, rare, candid personal piece; the kind of filmmaking the market has least patience for.
Jul 2011
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Singham
Devgn walks to beats similar to Salman's Dabanng. He beats the crap out of ruffians outside a village theatre. He restores his woman's honour. Besotted, she chases him. Audiences think even more highly of the hero. He beats the crap some more.
Jul 2011
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Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara
While entertaining her audiences throughout, the writer-director (Zoya Akhtar, Luck By Chance), with a firm voice of her own, still manages to keep things artistic, without its pretensions; a lot of times, even poetic...
Jul 2011
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Murder 2
I know what most would prefer to know. Yeah. There's homo-erectus Hashmi, and his frisky heroine. That's what really made the first one a huge, hot hit. The leading couple make out. For no apparent reason.
Jul 2011
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Jul 2011
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Bbuddah...Hoga Terra Baap
...the director here's also an unabashed fanboy. So many of Bachchan’s blinded filmmakers unfortunately are.
Jul 2011
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Double Dhamaal
...these gents -- Arshad Warsi, Riteish Deshmukh, Javed Jaffery (and Ashish. Of course) -- have had to do the kind of things for a living, endure a sort of public embarrassment for entertainment’s sake, they should be entitled to a gallantry award. No less. So should their audience.
Jun 2011
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Bheja Fry 2
The sequel's forced the filmmakers to look for a plot on their own. I'm not sure if they did find one eventually. At least I can’t quite find it in the film.
Jun 2011
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Jun 2011