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Rustom
...uses all the sensational material the Nanavati case has to offer, the treatment is laughably bad...
Aug 2016
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Kick
It’s a really long Salman Khan act—he’s the messiah, the crazy ‘dil se’ man. Just don’t count it as cinema
Jul 2014
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Once Upon A Time In Mumbai Dobaara
...is the worst I have seen of Luthria. All his previous films are a celebration and relish of stylish pulp. This is a misfire in style as well as story.
Aug 2013
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Kesari
...dull and monochromatic. There’s a worthy tribute due to those 21 men, but this reductive, gratuitous film isn’t it.
Mar 2019
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Baaghi 3
The Baaghi films aren’t sequels, but they’re basically the same: someone close to Tiger is threatened, and he responds by killing his way to the source.
Mar 2020
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Heropanti
The screenplay lurches from one scene to the next, piles on the risible dialogue, desultorily cuts to a song every now and then...
May 2014
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Brothers
It’s difficult to imagine anyone making mixed martial arts cheesier than it already is, but Karan Malhotra manages that here.
Aug 2015
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Entertainment
There is endless punning, a play on the names of actors and iconic Hindi movies, SMS forward-worthy jokes and the idea that a dog can get the better of humans.
Aug 2014
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Dabangg 3
...is determinedly, proudly stupid – a sadly representative end for a decade of largely unwatchable Hindi action cinema.
Dec 2019
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Dilwale
There are stupid films, and there are films that flaunt their stupidity. Rohit Shetty is a frequent purveyor of the latter sort.
Dec 2015
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Rajjo
...the movie plays out unmistakably in la-la land, with characters that can only be found in other movies about prostitutes and a series of plot developments that bear little connection to the real world.
Nov 2013
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A Flying Jatt
...is derivative, sloppily structured and, especially in its latter stages, tacky beyond belief. That it might also be the best Indian superhero film ever (barring Mr India, if that qualifies) is an indication of how low the bar is set.
Aug 2016
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One By Two
...mashes together typical rom-com ingredients with indie-style improvisation, but the result is sequences that play on for too long and moments that work in isolation but never as part of the big picture.
Jan 2014
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Barefoot To Goa
I take no pleasure in running down a film that’s obviously been strung together on a miniscule budget, but couldn’t everything have been thought through a bit more?
Apr 2015
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I Me Aur Main
There is no genuinely entertaining light-heartedness about I, Me Aur Main, as good romcoms have.
Mar 2013
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Satyagraha
...a missed opportunity. By translating a phenomenon that captured the national imagination even fleetingly, it could have humanized the Anna brigade. Jha dumbs down, and does it artlessly.
Aug 2013
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Blank
...the title of this film could be referring to the expressions of its lead actors or the feeling one has after watching this thriller.
May 2019
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Boss
The action-comedy category, characterised by such films as Wanted, Singham and Rowdy Rathore, is primarily aimed at boosting the careers of the marquee male stars who headline them. Every actor who isn’t the ubermensch that no force in the world can withstand doesn’t need to bother. Why then should audiences?
Oct 2013
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Hawaizaada
At 157 minutes, most of Vibhu Puri’s film is indulgence and fiction that is trying to connect points of fact. The padding is painfully dull and distracts from the drama, energy and patriotic zeal that could have propelled this story.
Jan 2015
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Sarkar 3
The movie doesn’t feel as much an organic follow-up to Sarkar Raj—probably the last time the Varma tasted some success—as much a lazy attempt by a creatively bankrupt director to revive his career.
May 2017
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Department
If you accept that Varma is spoofing his own films and the genre of underworld action movies, then Department is hilarious!
May 2012
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Pyaar Ka Punchnama 2
You really have to ask yourself about the maturity of the scriptwriters who have clearly given vent to their misogyny through this immature sequel to the 2011 film.
Oct 2015
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Jism - 2
...is poor in every aspect of film-making—and there’s not much sex in it either.
Aug 2012
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Gori Tere Pyaar Mein
Malhotra’s desire to engage with the issues that matter seems to be a response to criticism that Bollywood needs to move out of la-la land and in the direction of realistic cinema, but Gori Tere Pyaar Mein! is proof that this journey is not for everybody.
Nov 2013
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Student Of The Year 2
...provides the answer to the question no one was asking: what if Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikandar was a Johar film?
May 2019
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Ekk Deewana Tha
A love story that validates regressive family values, besides being poorly scripted and executed.
Feb 2012
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Dec 2013
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Shaandaar
A film of consistent, determined frivolity. And the fun starts dimming soon.
Oct 2015