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Stand By
While making a point about political interference and corruption (the flavour of the season!) in football, Stand By leans heavily towards Bollywood melodrama. This is most unnecessary in what could have been a hard-hitting look at what ails Indian sports.
Aug 2011
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Jo Hum Chahein
If you are an incurable romantic, it won't hurt you to watch this one once. It would be like going on a date with a beautiful but not so bright girl, just for the heck of it.
Dec 2011
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Hello Darling
Spliced with equal doses double entendre and softcore smut, Hello Darling makes for uncomfortable watching.
Aug 2010
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Oct 2011
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Oct 2016
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Mere Pyare Prime Minister
That you don't feel for anyone in this film (let alone, the issue), with the camera hovering around a bunch of parallel songs/story-lines, aimed to extend a simple short film into a full-length feature, is perhaps worse.
Mar 2019
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Apr 2010
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Murder 2
This one has no mohabbat, not surely a zaroorat and probably just an aadat for the Bhatts to come out with a movie now and then, with a staple fare of explicit sex scenes and graphic violence in the name of a thrilling movie.
Jul 2011
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May 2012
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O Teri
The film is supposedly a satire on scams, politics and media, among other things. But the script or the dialogues don’t show any intelligence that help the film qualify as one.
Mar 2014
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Action Jackson
...a happy addition to the run-of-the-mill films with the invisible please-leave-your-brain-at-home statutory label.
Dec 2014
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Baadshaho
It is a case of how a good ol' masala entertainer, which otherwise could have been an enjoyable affair thanks to its action sequences and some seeti maar dialogues, has gone wrong - once again, reiterating the importance of sharp writing in a thriller.
Sep 2017
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Why Cheat India
...it eventually starts descending to such levels of random, thoughtless spinning of the yarn that by the end of it you're not even too sure it's the same film that you had started with in the first place.
Jan 2019
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Madholal - Keep Walking
Despite the inspirational title, the protagonist only sleepwalks through out the film.
Aug 2010
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Mere Dost Picture Abhi Baki Hai
It could have been a slice-of-life but the need to make it a masala fare infused with the usual clichés makes it a drag.
Jul 2012
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Uvaa
The youngsters in the film might have burned the midnight oil to become an example for others, but Uvaa does not even deserve grace marks.
Jun 2015
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Milan Talkies
...one suspects, much of this movie pretty much remains in the filmmaker's imagination/head. Rest of it, quite honestly, gave me a bit of a headache.
Mar 2019
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Housefull 4
If the makers think running gags about pigeon and pig poop are funny, they all may have graduated from the Sajid Khan school of filmmaking, the master of puerile and asinine humour.
Oct 2019
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Sadiyaan
The film is not for all audiences with the older lot finding the actors of their generation the only draw.
Apr 2010
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May 2019
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Akira
Bored out of my wits, watching these good fellas with hardly anything significant to do, I could only feel a slight kira (insect) up my bum — desperately itching to go home.
Sep 2016
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Saaho
They let loose on an eager audience merely set-pieces in quick succession, and so much random anth-shanth, akar-bakar, that it becomes impossible to saho (bear) Saaho, once you get closer to three hours.
Aug 2019
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Jodi Breakers
A fun, breezy comedy this could have been. But alas, for most parts Jodi Breakers ends up being a boring case of trying too hard to be everything but not quite reaching anywhere kind of a film.
Feb 2012
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Challo Driver
...it makes an attempt to gauge the pulse of today’s youth. However, once the movie sets into motion, the lack of acceleration in the screenplay wrecks the show.
Jul 2012
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Future To Bright Hai Ji
Its mediocre screenplay does the damage because of its aversion to take risk.
Nov 2012
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Saare Jahaan Se Mehnga
In the end, the film leaves you uncertain with so much more to desire.
Mar 2013
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Heropanti
The script and the film are on a tumble downhill right from the start and ultimately hit the rock bottom of utter nonsense and unintended hilarity.
May 2014
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Dobaara
If the lack of logic still manages to scare you, this film, an apparent 'tribute' to its Hollywood counterparts, is surely worth your time. For the rest, watching the English version for a second time will be a wiser option.
Jun 2017
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Shahrukh Bola Khoobsurat Hai Tu
After establishing the central characters, Makrand kind of loses his way in a myriad of peripheral subplots that really don't add anything to the pace or subject.
Nov 2010