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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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What The Fish
Given the wishy-washy story and the inept direction by Gurmeet Singh, the usually dependable actors, Kapadia and Manu Rishi, are unable to make anything out of it.
Dec 2013
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Gulaab Gang
Of all the tributes to Sampat Pal’s debatable feminist politics, this one is the narrowest, and the silliest.
Mar 2014
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Shaandaar
A film of consistent, determined frivolity. And the fun starts dimming soon.
Oct 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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Great Grand Masti
...if there’s one remarkable thing about this film, it’s that Shivdasani, Deshmukh and Oberoi see merit in reprising their parts as lascivious men driven by under-serviced libidos, and invest those roles with such energy and commitment.
Jul 2016
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Tere Bin Laden Dead Or Alive
The jokes are desperate, the performances so hammy they hurt, and the meta device overused to the point of misplaced self-congratulation, since this story was obviously dead on arrival.
Feb 2016
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Creature
The pumped-up background score tries to send a few shivers down the spine, but the only impact is on the ear-drums.
Sep 2014
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Total Dhamaal
Not for the first time, Kumar aims for It’s A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World and ends up with It’s a Bad, Bad, Bad, Bad Film.
Feb 2019
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Kill Dil
...is an amalgam of Hindi film clichés, the most obvious being the orphans, set to uninspired gimmicks. A waste of a Govinda comeback.
Nov 2014
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Radhe
...is a supreme drag, and another outing for the trigger-happy enforcer cop in Hindi cinema.
May 2021
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Mar 2012
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AkaashVani
Except for a few moments, and some competent, if synthetic, cinematography by Sudhir K. Chaudhary, a story with immediacy is lost in flinching execution.
Jan 2013
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Mar 2014
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Mickey Virus
Without any authentic ring to it, and with artless performances and a predictable story, the last thing I could do, while sitting through its more than two hours of running time, was suspend disbelief.
Oct 2013
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Housefull 2
An unbearable and offensive film with a convoluted plot comprising too many noisy characters.
Apr 2012
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Nov 2012
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Ab Tak Chhappan 2
This sequel stands as a case for why every part 2 is not always a good idea.
Feb 2015
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Hero
It’s unlikely anyone in this day and age could have made a totally convincing film with material like this, but Hero is dragged down further by pedestrian writing, unremarkable music and patchy direction.
Sep 2015
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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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Krrish 3
...is neither Amar Chitra Katha nor Marvel. The Indian superhero stays in an artless, old-fashioned limbo.
Nov 2013
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The Xpose
...an ambitious vanity project that holds appeal only to other members of the singer’s treasure hunt.
May 2014
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Jan 2016
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Zanjeer
...assembles the usual dose of slow-motion fight sequences, songs and flat comic sequences between the first frame and the last.
Sep 2013
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Housefull 3
All the elements of the Housefull formula are in place—jokes about the differently abled, demeaning people of colour, female characters who are bimbos...
Jun 2016
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Satya 2
...does have academic value, as a study of a director’s systematic attempts to demolish his legacy and bury one of his most enduring creations...
Nov 2013