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Well Done Abba
Despite being a trail and tribulation journey, Benegal’s direction has a feel-good charm to it.
Mar 2010
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We Are Family
This is the kind of film where all the moms and stepmoms of the world are assured to cry buckets.
Sep 2010
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Udaan
In an industry known to indulge in larger-than-life ‘flights of fantasy’, Udaan is one of those intermittent ‘coming of age’ films from Bollywood. Do not miss!
Jul 2010
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Tum Milo Toh Sahi
...starts as a simple story but for the first half hangs aimlessly like people whiling away in a coffee shop. The second half is too slow and too many songs only slacken the pace.
Apr 2010
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Tum Mile
Watch it as a disaster flick and you will find it disastrous. Watch it as a love story and you will love it.
Nov 2009
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Toh Baat Pakki
Though not path-breaking in any terms, the flavour of the film is a delectable balance between candyfloss and masala.
Feb 2010
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Thanks Maa
The film works largely for the amount of authenticity that director Irfan Kamal imparts to every frame of the film.
Mar 2010
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Tere Bin Laden
Slapstick in some scenes, satirical in most and silly at times, Tere Bin Laden clicks primarily because above all its farce, it has an entertaining story to narrate.
Jul 2010
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Feb 2010
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Shaapit
Shaapit , like most formulaic frightful films, is a horror flick where the tone, tempo and variation of the background score determines the moment of spook.
Mar 2010
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Robot
...is the flawless combination of biggest superstar and best special effects ever on the Indian screen.
Oct 2010
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Road, Movie
The pacing is sluggish for a road flick and Dev Benegal’s screenplay is bland, lacking basic level drama.
Mar 2010
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Right Yaaa Wrong
The supposed suspense in the first half is as lame as its protagonist with a perceptible double-cross at the interval point. The identity of the killer is revealed to the viewer soon after and with nothing left to your imagination, the genre changes from suspense-thriller to courtroom-drama.
Mar 2010
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Rann
Rather than a story designed around the media world, Rann is more of the clichéd corrupt politician chronicle (that Bollywood has been narrating since ages) set on the backdrop of the broadcasting business.
Jan 2010
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Raavan
Mani Ratnam’s modern adaptation of Hindu mythological epic Ramayana with a twist, is a film made with good intention, beautiful music and mind blowing cinematography but unfortunately lacking everything else!
Jun 2010
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Jan 2010
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Raajneeti
...the most effective cinematic interpretation of the Mahabharat since Shyam Benegal’s Kalyug 1981.
Jun 2010
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Pyaar Impossible
The moral of the film is that one shouldn’t judge a person by their looks. Going by that, however cool this candyfloss flick might appear, it’s still shallow on content.
Jan 2010
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Prince
Vivek Oberoi suffers intermittent convulsions through the film as his brain hangs like a computer. Wish the viewer had a Ctrl+Alt+Del option. Alas all they can do is curse the makers literally asking them ‘ dimag kharab ho gaya kya? ’
Apr 2010
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Phoonk 2
...literally blows things out of proportion. Watching this film is like indulging in two hours of foreplay with no sex.
Apr 2010
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Apr 2010
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Paa
At times you should not be yourself to show the world what you really are. Amitabh Bachchan does just that and shows the world he is the Paa of performing arts.
Dec 2009
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Once Upon A Time In Mumbaai
...is revival of good old Hindi cinema. As Mumbai goes rewind, you look forward to a dynamic and gripping entertainer.
Jul 2010
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My Name is Khan
Karan Johar succeeds is in making Shah Rukh Khan underplay his character like never before and mellow down the human drama with as much positivity that a film with a backdrop as intense as 9/11 ends up being feel-good with an optimistic outlook.
Feb 2010
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Mr. Singh Mrs. Mehta
meets all the requisite criteria of the alleged art-house cinema. Nothing wrong about it other than the fact that though the film expectedly runs out of entertainment, this one also fails to enlighten or even emotionally touch, move or bind you.
Jun 2010
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Milenge Milenge
Watch it only if you are just interested to see Kareena when the term size zero wasn’t coined. Else Milenge Milenge doesn’t score much above zero.
Jul 2010