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Oct 2016
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Mar 2018
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Pati Patni Aur Woh
...the problem with Pati, Patni Aur Woh isn’t that it’s offensive, but that it's dull and predictable for too much of its running time.
Dec 2019
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Apr 2017
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Ki & Ka
A promising premise is ruined by narrative unsubtlety and some strange stylistics choices.
Apr 2016
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Saat Uchhakkey
...the climax does come with a twist but it’s wholly unsatisfying and a tad convenient. The one highlight is the way the actors embrace these characters, banter easily and show relish for those expletive-heavy lines.
Oct 2016
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Hichki
...often comes across as parachute filmmaking—dropping in on a problem just long enough to prick the viewer’s conscience and make them feel like they’re watching something meaningful, but avoiding any sort of meaningful engagement.
Mar 2018
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Why Cheat India
Hashmi seems to enjoy himself; if the writing was brighter and the other characters had more agency, the film might have played differently.
Jan 2019
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Mardaani 2
...Hindi cinema has no appetite for complexity when it comes to sexual assault, opting time and again for vigilante retribution.
Dec 2019
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Kaabil
A somewhat relaxed performance from Hrithik Roshan is the only watchable thing in this dull, dim-witted revenge drama.
Jan 2017
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Holiday
Holiday’s slickness and the adroit use of actual locations in Mumbai can’t prevent slippages into ludicrousness.
Jun 2014
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Tevar
A number of tropes in this script, for instance the damsel in distress who whimpers and then falls hopelessly in love with her knight in shining armour, are, like this film, conservative and well past their sell-by date.
Jan 2015
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Fukrey Returns
It’s hard to see a film that seemed as casually tossed off as Fukrey gain a follow-up that’s so labored.
Dec 2017
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Dharam Sankat Mein
A satire about religious divides that begins well, but disintegrates into bland liberal pieties.
Apr 2015
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Indu Sarkar
And though it’s a shade better than his last, the laughable Calendar Girls, it’s still a Bhandarkar film. It hardly matters that he’s swapped salacious expose for historical statement...
Jul 2017
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Baaghi 2
The ridiculousness of such scenes almost distracts from the noxious nature of this film, which dilutes its near-constant violence with cheaply bought nationalism.
Mar 2018
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Cocktail
...meant for the 20-something audience, is not a breezy watch. As a romcom, it fails in that essential criteria.
Jul 2012
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The Attacks Of 26/11
The way the story is told restricts what the film can say about the larger tragedy of human loss.
Mar 2013
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Aug 2014
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Jazbaa
...is all Dutch angles and green filters and slo-mo, an excess of stylization that calls attention to the absence of any real style.
Oct 2015
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Hamari Adhuri Kahani
I don’t think I’ve laughed more at a movie that wanted me to be crying along with it.
Jun 2015
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May 2016
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Daas Dev
There are so many vested interests in this microcosm of UP politics that I wished I had a cheat sheet to keep track of who is who and why they are betraying and killing each other.
Apr 2018
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Besharam
It works to the extent that Kapoor is a star in the popular Hindi cinema mould and can command attention in the dreariest of moments, but even screen gods can’t convert water into wine.
Oct 2013
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Kya Dilli Kya Lahore
...feels stretched and half-baked, less of a big-screen experience and better suited to an intimate stage production.
May 2014
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Chennai Express
Shetty never lets it rip. He is content with doling out a festive season timepasser, which is the solo release for the Eid weekend and has been plastered across so many screens in the country and the world that its success is guaranteed.
Aug 2013
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Azhar
Mohammad Azharuddin may or may not have sold out his team and country, but at least he was never boring. One cannot say the same for Azhar, Tony D’Souza’s inert biopic...
May 2016
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Force 2
In an effort to extend the brand and build it into a franchise, a shallow story has been laced together between ambitious action set pieces.
Nov 2016
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Guddu Rangeela
Logical sinkholes keeping opening up along the surface of the plot; the humour is mostly SMS-level...
Jul 2015