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Total Siyapaa
...definitely lives up to its title, but not in a good way. This is a bad kind of chaos-the sort Joker creates in Gotham-despite a cast oozing with potential.
Mar 2014
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Charlie Kay Chakkar Mein
Perhaps imagined as an engaging thriller, the acting school performances marginalise the story which would've read like a tale of breakthrough twists on paper.
Nov 2015
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Aksar 2
...for those looking for a suspense-thriller, the twists and turns here seem more unnecessary than unexpected and the predictably painful expressions inevitably culminate in a headache.
Nov 2017
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72 Hours
Director and lead Dhyani had the unique advantage of placing himself in the centre of the action and allowing the rest of the cast to fade to the background. But even then, his highlighted performance barely hits the spot and fails to interest or engage audiences with this story.
Jan 2019
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Apr 2012
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Dilliwaali Zaalim Girlfriend
...yet another confused adaptation of the Khosla Ka Ghosla template.
Mar 2015
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1921
Relying on jaded tropes such as flickering lights, grisly halls, smoky corridors and chalk-faced spirits, there's little here that we've not seen in desi horror films in the last few decades.
Jan 2018
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Race 3
If you felt the previous Race films were cocky, this one resembles a poultry farm.
Jun 2018
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Toh Baat Pakki
...just leaves us, the audience, forever expected to be the suckers. So the film can be safely avoided, yeh baat toh pakki hai.
Feb 2010
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Khatta Meetha
It is stuffed with gags, set-ups and stock characters, in a silly, stunted, scattered script which is stitched up rather poorly. The film desperately tries to be funny but just ends up being very tedious.
Jul 2010
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No Problem
...is full of problems, without any semblance of a story or script or direction, but that would be stating the obvious.
Dec 2010
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Jo Hum Chahein
The age of playing safe, in cinema at least, is officially over. The idea that you take a 'classic' love story, update it for an urban milieu, cast new faces, record a bunch of songs, and spend some money on production design is frankly, dead.
Dec 2011
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Meeruthiya Gangsters
Debutant director Zeishan Quadri makes all the classical mistakes of a first-timer. To begin with, he seems too consumed with the idea of infusing humour in tense sequences.
Sep 2015
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The Legend of Michael Mishra
With aspirations of lampooning a lovestruck 'bhai' from Bihar, it sways from supposed comedy to unintentional tragedy and culminates in a headache from hell.
Aug 2016
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Coffee With D
A supposed comic satire that hopes to mock the state of Indian news channels, this one manages little beyond lewd humour and tacky production values.
Jan 2017
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Dobaara
Agreed director Prawaal Raman has a faint body of work to defend or live up to. But this doesn't entitle him to reduce horror to hilarity.
Jun 2017
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Bhaiaji Superhittt
While this one hopes to pass for a comedy, sitting through it could trigger every other emotion.
Nov 2018
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Sep 2019
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Love Express
...is proof that film schools can teach you the craft but not necessarily the art of filmmaking.
Jun 2011
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Son Of Sardaar
It’s so unfunny, it’ll put you to sleep It’s so shallow, it’ll make you weep.
Nov 2012
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One Night Stand
Unlike the upbeat Meet Bros song in the film, Do peg maar aur bhool ja, this one will take much more to scrape off from memory.
May 2016
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Fraud Saiyaan
It’s the kind of watch that makes you squirm till you shrink into your seat.
Jan 2019
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Singham
This is supposed to be a masala film. But correct me if am wrong, the oregano must go on the pizza or are you going to snort it straight from the sachet?
Jul 2011
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From Sydney With Love
Nobody wants to see cliches with newcomer actors with their set of stock expressions.
Sep 2012
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Gabbar Is Back
...by the time the same plot is passed through four commercial factory machines, nothing is decipherable. Gabbar is the end of it hopefully, with nothing left to squeeze out.
May 2015
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Hanuman Da Damdaar
An animated retelling of a mythological epic would seem an appropriate vehicle to apprise millennials of the significant yet lesser-known tale. But for Bajrangbali's sake, the visuals are so sketchy, it trivialises the tale of bravado.
Jun 2017
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The Dark Side Of Life: Mumbai City
...the Madhur Bhandarkar-style of dumbing down the proceedings and the trivial issues that result in catastrophic reactions render this one as an unbearable watch.
Nov 2018
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Hum Tum Aur Ghost
An actor is only as good as his director is an old adage, while a movie is only as entertaining as its story. Both these maxims are proved fully true in Hum, Tum aur Ghost...
Mar 2010
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Utt Pataang
...an unfortunate title for a film that ends up being just that, a lot of half-baked gibberish and faltu ka utt pataang.
Feb 2011