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Titli
Unrelentingly grim, morally unmoored, Titli festers like a sore on your consciousness.
Oct 2015
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Thugs Of Hindostan
Like previous works, which include Tashan and Dhoom 3, Acharya’s Thugs of Hindostan is big but hollow.
Nov 2018
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The Zoya Factor
...offers little cheer to those invested in the return of the Hindi romantic comedy or the halfway-decent post-Lagaan cricket film.
Sep 2019
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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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The Sky Is Pink
...errs on the side of caution, keeping the impending tragedy in view at all times, but wrapping everything in good vibes and the kind of courage you have no option but to admire.
Oct 2019
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The Lunchbox
While being an immensely enjoyable and competent film, the universality of The Lunchbox tends to exclude its setting’s all-important provinciality.
Sep 2013
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The Forest
This movie with a message is not for the faint-hearted but for those with a stomach for thrills.
May 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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Thappad
There are times you wish Sinha could take some of the weight off his writing with inventive filmmaking. But he isn’t a visual director, and the 142-minute Thappad mostly has the look and rhythms of a stage play.
Feb 2020
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Thackeray
A critical biopic was never on the cards; the only question, really, is how vitriolic it was going to be. Thackeray is 2 hours and 19 minutes, so the hate is spread out. The problem is, the scenes which exist only to praise Thackeray’s altruism and courage are bland. The nasty moments kept me engaged and enraged.
Jan 2019
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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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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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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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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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TE3N
...keeps the surprises, not all of which are easy to predict, coming at regular intervals. Whether all these twists make sense, or are entirely fair, is another matter.
Jun 2016
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Tanu Weds Manu Returns
She’s (Kangana Ranaut) also the main reason the film is—even at its silliest—very watchable.
May 2015
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Tamasha
What he might need, though, is a writing partner, someone who can supply him stories and characters that aren’t composites of things he’s written earlier.
Nov 2015
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Talvar
By turns witty and thoughtful, devastating and emotional, it’s up there with Masaan and Dum Laga Ke Haisha and the one or two other stirringly well-written films of the year.
Oct 2015
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Table No. 21
If there was ever a movie in need of an enhanced computer-generated imagery budget, it is this one.
Jan 2013
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Super 30
...is on track as long as it steadily plugs away at the real life story of a teacher in Bihar who coaches underprivileged children for the IIT-JEE examination. But when the film starts to doubt whether this is enough, it comes undone.
Jul 2019
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Jul 2016
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Sui Dhaaga
...is a well-meaning, simply woven, feel-good entertainer that delivers as much as it promises.
Sep 2018
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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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Student Of The Year
...is not as entertaining as it is aspirational for teenagers. Its fake world is not convincing.
Oct 2012
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Street Dancer 3D
This film exists neither to impress nor express but to oppress and distress.
Jan 2020
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Stree
...an amiable comedy with a couple of good ideas, too many jump scares and the most confusing ending I’ve seen in a long time.
Aug 2018
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Special 26
An insipid lead character and unnecessary digressions derail a good heist story.
Feb 2013
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Soorma
Writers Shaad Ali, Suyash Trivedi and Siva Ananth gently follow a linear narrative to recount Singh’s story but the screenplay feels rather lazy and the drama of Singh’s inspirational story is barely felt.
Jul 2018