An archive of Hindi movie reviews and ratings from 2010 to 2020.

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Hindustan Times

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Number of reviews
697
Average rating
45

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  • Naam Shabana

    Unfortunately, it is not just the direction that falters. Neeraj’s screenplay isn’t as taut as his previous outings either. It lacks the depth of A Wednesday, Baby and Special 26.

    29

    Mar 2017
  • Hero

    Then who's the real hero of this 131-minute film? Salman Khan. Why? Haven't you heard his soulful number 'main hoon hero' yet?

    29

    Sep 2015
  • Kya Yahi Sach Hai

    Assemblage of some of the world’s worst over-actors will worry you, editing’s patchy, sound’s screwed up, art-work's third rate, cinematography’s amateurish.  Some of the most crucial scenes are shot before a chroma screen. The research and script are solid still. This is sad.

    29

    Jan 2012
  • Utt Pataang

    You’d imagine someone read this script and thought the supposed page-turner would make for another low-budget comic hit. They didn’t bother to apply any cinema at all.

    29

    Feb 2011
  • Fireflies

    It's biggest flaw: The film suffers from forced stereotypes. Most of the sequences are predictable, and it's not your mistake if you confuse it for a full-fledged commercial film, only made with very low budget.

    29

    Nov 2014
  • 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.

    29

    Sep 2011
  • Players

    A few players intend to share the loot, given the plan or plot (borrowed from Hollywood) is already in place. That’s the story of this film. It could be the story of its making as well!

    29

    Jan 2012
  • Action Jackson

    ...watch Action Jackson if you are a Prabhudheva or Ajay Devgn fan, because otherwise there isn't a single dialogue you haven't heard and this is one of the films where they say 'Do not take your brains to the theatres'.

    29

    Dec 2014
  • Blank

    ...this could have been pulpy fun and there is some promise. The hand-to-hand combat sequences are shot grungily, with extreme close-ups, but while Blank wants to be a heavy metal movie, it is basically a kid with a noisy amp.

    29

    May 2019
  • Aisha

    The atmospherics is complete. The intentions aren’t off the mark. You may like to voyeuristically share a rich experience (with the film’s cast, or crew, in this case). You only wish this sense of outdoor adventure could conceal the blandness of the drama within.

    29

    Aug 2010
  • Raavan

    This is that severely unexpected self-indulgence in a career of close to three decades, which digs out nothing but his own cinematic cliches.

    29

    Jun 2010
  • Chef

    ...offers moments of brilliance which, if weaved in a more organised manner, may have given us a light, affable film. But a lazy and rather uninterested narrative takes away the pleasure.

    29

    Oct 2017
  • Hide & Seek

    You couldn’t care less for these characters to bother with their bumbling back-story; never mind that the nuggets in the film itself don’t eventually add up.

    29

    Mar 2010