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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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Jan 2016
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Jabariya Jodi
It’s been a year of offensively bad films – PM Narendra Modi, Thackeray, Kesari. But anger and disgust will keep you awake, which is more than I can say for Jabariya Jodi.
Aug 2019
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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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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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Tezz
The tension never builds up, nor do you feel sympathy for any character. In other words, it lives up to expectations and is not worth the time or expense.
Apr 2012
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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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Rocky Handsome
The punch-by-numbers action scenes are not enough to save a poorly adapted film with poorly pitched performances, out-of-tune casting and tacky execution.
Mar 2016
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Grand Masti
No double entendre is left unused, no body part unmolested and no pop- culture reference forgotten...
Sep 2013
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Welcome 2 Karachi
The sort of derivative comic slop Arshad Warsi has had to wade through his entire career.
May 2015
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Do Lafzon Ki Kahani
This is exactly the sort of no-hope venture that Hooda seems to land up in again and again, frustrating those who believe that he ought to be a much bigger star and above dross of this sort by now.
Jun 2016
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Aug 2015
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Rajdhani Express
...a mishmash of comic characters, disjointed sequences and banal screenplay.
Jan 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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Bol Bachchan
A portmanteau film with little of the excitement and risk one associates with great short films.
May 2015
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Humshakals
Since everything is multiplied three times in Sajid Khan’s latest comedy, it’s totally fair to complain that Humshakals is thrice as excruciating as films in this genre.
Jun 2014
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Welcome Back
Over its cruelly prolonged 150-minute running time, Welcome Back treats human intellect with the sort of disdain that’s remarkable, even for Bollywood.
Sep 2015
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Rowdy Rathore
...is an assault on every sense; it never reaches close to any mental faculty.
Jun 2012
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Teraa Surroor
This is Reshammiya’s one true achievement. He believed he was a star so fervently that everyone else ended up believing it too.
Mar 2016
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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