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No One Killed Jessica
The narrative is gripping, the music score (Amit Trivedi) uplifting, the screenplay tight enough to allow for very few slippages (only towards the end).
Jan 2011
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Ada: A Way Of Life
Colour tones change with every scene. Background score changes genres. Dubbing is never in sync; editing, abrupt.
Jan 2011
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Isi Life Mein
'Cool' is an oft abused, dangerous word. 'Wannabe' usually follows it like a shadow. You have to be careful. The makers of this movie evidently aren't.
Dec 2010
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Tees Maar Khan
...never-ending hit and mess. It's one thing to repeatedly make 'nudge nudge wink wink' sort of ironic nod to films or 'filmies'. It's quite another to know nothing else.
Dec 2010
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Toonpur Ka Superrhero
The superstar wants to impress his kids. The film wants to impress yours. The human hero fights the cartoon villain as he moves up levels in a video game. It’s all pretty lame.The connect is somewhere lost.
Dec 2010
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Mirch
The four short films, fable-like, with fine actors, eventually turn out to be utterly simple and instantly amusing.
Dec 2010
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No Problem
Actors alone suposedly carry audiences into theatres. A good number of them have been suitably recruited. The proposal is well drawn. Promise of crores have already been made. Why bother making a movie as well, telling a funny story? Anything will do.
Dec 2010
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Band Baaja Baaraat
There's no proverbial chemistry between the leading couple, and that makes for a film of its own. Not this one.
Dec 2010
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Rakht Charitra 2
Regional cinema has its own poetic grammar. It's just distressing to sense, that’s where Varma belongs now.
Dec 2010
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Khelein Hum Jee Jaan Sey
Extreme patience, not patriotism, can sail you through this wikipedia page.
Dec 2010
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Allah Ke Banday
The gangs and their slums are not the same anymore. This would be a minor issue if the picture's setting wasn’t completely the point itself. It unfortunately is. There is no other story. Well. Too bad.
Nov 2010
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Break Ke Baad
...the film is subversive enough and remains endearingly exciting for most parts.
Nov 2010
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Guzaarish
You get overwhelmed at first; leave slightly under-whelmed, eventually. That's the story of this otherwise fine film.
Nov 2010
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Nov 2010
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Golmaal 3
Golmaal 2 (second-rate stuff) apparently raked in big bucks. Such success can boost anyone's over-confidence. Which explains this turd part.
Nov 2010
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Action Replayy
Kumar, the hardest working Indian film star (averaging four films a year) remains the only thing to look out for...
Nov 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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Oct 2010
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Aakrosh
This is the sort of film that’s sold under prestigious tags of "hard-hitting" and "issue-based". They’re a heavy assault on your senses all right.
Oct 2010
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Do Dooni Chaar
...executed brilliantly by some of the finest actors on screen and a surprisingly self-assured debutant director.
Oct 2010
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Crook
This is an "issue-based" film that closely analyses racist attacks against young nihatthe (helpless) Indians in Australia!
Oct 2010
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Robot
This film, just a few feet too long, is fine entertainment by itself. I'm evidently an atheist to this religion, so I guess, you can trust this note.
Oct 2010
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Oct 2010
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For Real
This is the sort of self-produced, independent, low-budget, boutique film that you go to niche film festivals for. They serve as fair audition tapes for better things to come. Hopefully.
Sep 2010
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Dabangg
It'd be a shame to watch this anywhere outside of an old, decrepit single screen theatre, in the spirit of the loud tribal tradition that Hindi movies have always been: severely light on both the brains and the wallet. Mad stuff! Really.
Sep 2010
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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