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Court
...is absolutely worth raving about, and that it might be one of the most original films to come out of the country in a long time. But its insights are hard-won: you have to be willing to wait and watch until the point of each scene...
Apr 2015
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Coffee Bloom
...isn’t the most exciting of films, but it has a slow-burn intensity that owes a lot to Mathur and Garg’s carefully calibrated performances and Kapoor’s exuberant, pressure-releasing one.
Mar 2015
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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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May 2014
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Chor Chor Super Chor
...a mild-mannered 99-minute affair, with committed performances...
Aug 2013
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Chhichhore
Director Nitesh Tiwari offers the ultimate homage to his college days with this film about his time as an engineering student and the lessons one learns outside of the classroom.
Sep 2019
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Chhapaak
Padukone's quiet portrayal of Malti’s determination is moving, but I missed the poetic flourishes of Talvar and Raazi, and the little cameos that enlivened those films.
Jan 2020
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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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Chef
Like the original, it’s a film that’s easily consumed, even if, like the original, the emotional beats being stressed are amusingly obvious.
Oct 2017
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Chauranga
Had the performances been stronger, the accents more convincing, and the ideas more novel, Chauranga might have achieved something...
Jan 2016
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Jan 2016
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Chakravyuh
...has a sense of authenticity in its location and milieu, but Jha’s simplifications and reliance on melodrama fail to underscore them. His tone is serious and sombre-not a fortuitous combination-forcing its narrative upon its viewer.
Oct 2012
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Chaarfutiya Chhokare
Some nerve in the performances and crackle in the dialogues may have made the film a few notches better.
Sep 2014
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Chaarfutiya Chhokare
A portmanteau film with little of the excitement and risk one associates with great short films.
May 2015
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Calendar Girls
...a ‘Madhur Bhandarkar-type film’ is one the worst things you could call a young filmmaker’s work. And yet, the man himself perseveres.
Sep 2015
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Bullett Raja
It is a wishy-washy mix of two brazen hinterland heroes’ misadventures, a revenge drama, and a soap-opera style, hackneyed depiction of Uttar Pradesh politics.
Nov 2013
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Budhia Singh
...maybe sincere and well-intentioned, but it is far from an engaging film.
Aug 2016
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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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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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Bombay Velvet
...is frustrating and exhilarating in equal measure. Though his ambition is plain to see, I prefer the Kashyap who delivers the shock of the new rather than the glamour of old.
May 2015
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Bombay Talkies
...while they unfold, the stories hold up in their half-hour individual length. But after you have left the theatre, it is not gratification you feel, but the short-lived aftertaste of a music video or a good commercial.
May 2013
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Bol Bachchan
...is not about laughs. At best, it’s an experiment that tests if the same stupid jokes work with us, Bollywood lovers, over and over again.
Jul 2012
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Bobby Jasoos
...harnesses the classic tropes of melodrama—coincidences, conflicts, the perfect resolution—to deliver a feel-good fairy tale of a remarkably mobile heroine who gets up and leaves whenever she feels like.
Jul 2014
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Mar 2012
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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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Apr 2012
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Bhopal: A Prayer For Rain
...apart from the provocative end, Bhopal: A Prayer For Rain is a wasted opportunity.
Dec 2014
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Bhoothnath Returns
The overly busy screenplay, which clocks at 155 minutes, is packed with so many ideas that it unfolds at the pace of a multi-phase election.
Apr 2014
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Bhavesh Joshi Superhero
...is caught in a peculiar bind: it’s a bit too competent to be dismissed, but not original or striking enough to dispel the feeling that it’s all been done before.
Jun 2018
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Bharat
For 130-odd minutes, Bharat trundles along, sometimes diverting, often annoying, deeply inessential.
Jun 2019