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Enemmy
...had some potential as a thriller of with a Rashommon-esque touch as it entirely revolves a single key incident and has three parties trying to figure it out. But it fails, ultimately, to showcase its strengths.
Jun 2013
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Emotional Atyachar : The Film
Though the overall production values are low, what saves the film is the sharp, non-linear story and a range of ensemble actors.
Sep 2010
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Ekkees Toppon Ki Salaami
...with set pieces that crack you up and manipulate you-but invariably has you pulling out your hair in frustration. Such fine actors, but an opportunity lost.
Oct 2014
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Ekkees Tareekh Shubh Muhurat
...Hindi films have become obsessed with weaving stories that convey the life, labour and laughs of small-town India. While some closely-depicted accounts that lend themselves to situational hilarity have been remarkable successes, others feel that merely furnishing a socially-awkward premise is enough. This one, unsurprisingly, falls in the latter.
Nov 2018
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Ekk Deewana Tha
Lazy filmmaking, repetitive endless conversations, arbitrary songs, and weak protagonists are its undoing.
Feb 2012
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Ek Villain
There is no doubting that Suri's vision is clear in its own space-evident from the usual heady cocktail of lilting tunes and brooding antagonists - but his storytelling leaves much to be desired.
Jun 2014
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Ek Tha Tiger
Khan on the other hand holds back too much. Is he underplaying? Is he not acting at all? Hard to tell. If you're expecting an amusing, captivating, cool Chulbul Pandey-like performance, forget it.
Aug 2012
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Ek Paheli Leela
...is just an insincere, lavish and titillating compilation of every item song ever made.
Apr 2015
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Ek Main Aur Ekk Tu
A romcom that goes beyond being sweet and enjoyable or a perfect date film.
Feb 2012
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Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga
Director Shelly Chopra Dhar takes an anodyne approach in her narrative. It’s almost as if the pressure of how a lesbian love story would be received curbed her creativity and she picked the safer alternative at every turn.
Feb 2019
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Ek Haseena Thi Ek Deewana Tha
Director Sunil Darshan, also to be blamed for the story and screenplay, had noble intentions to relaunch his son in this film. But they don't translate into a story worth enduring or a a film worth suffering.
Jun 2017
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Dum Maaro Dum
...tidily brackets itself into a new-age masala film that engages you at a superficial level for a while, but loses its vigour somewhere along the way.
Apr 2011
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Dum Laga Ke Haisha
Director Sharad Katariya takes more than a leaf out of this slice-of-life book, and gently constructs—with a remarkable eye for detail—one of the sweetest little fairytales in recent times.
Feb 2015
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Dulha Mil Gaya
The clichés play out unendingly in this painful flick which has good production values. Seeing the opulence on screen you often wonder, why someone would spend this kind of money on a brain-dead script like DMG?
Jan 2010
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Drishyam
...could've been crisper and woven in a few more tricks and surprises. But it is only a lazy remake and a lot is lost in translation.
Jul 2015
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Dream Girl
While it packs in some sharp one-liners and furnishes bizarre situations, it doesn’t go beyond that. It’s almost as if the makers were so excited with the very premise that they didn’t bother to figure out where they wanted to take this story.
Sep 2019
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Dozakh
The climax, potentially a brave black-and-white triumph of humanity over religion, must have looked iconic on paper. This depth, however, is dissolved by an archaic display of craft.
Mar 2015
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Double Dhamaal
There is no semblance of logic and every situation is conveniently set up to maximise the grating 'comedy'.
Jun 2011
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Dolly Ki Doli
...liberties would be acceptable if this was a mischievous Disney fairytale. Or if this didn't actually boast of a stellar supporting cast.
Jan 2015
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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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Dishkiyaoon
...confounds on a very basic technical level. Baweja sincerely tries, but is undone by scrambled writing that relies more on colorcoding than action or entertainment.
Mar 2014
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Dirty Politics
I feel sorry for the crew that works hard on these goodwill efforts, for they're at the mercy of unprogressive creative minds.
Mar 2015
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Dilwale
...to take them (SRK and Kajol) for granted and expect that their mere presence would negate the need for a story, screenplay or any other element that makes a film, scripts Dilwale's doom.
Dec 2015
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Dilliwaali Zaalim Girlfriend
...yet another confused adaptation of the Khosla Ka Ghosla template.
Mar 2015
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Dil Toh Baccha Hai Ji
..has its funny moments it never really gets laugh out loud, with the comic timing often missing.
Jan 2011
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Dil Juunglee
Taapsee Pannu extends dignity to average writing and conveys her character’s evolution well. Saqib Saleem consistently manages the accent of an average Delhi munda but barely digs any deeper...
Mar 2018
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Dil Dhadakne Do
There are films that win for their dialogue and there are those that say it all without literally saying much. Dil Dhadakne Do falls in the second category.
Jun 2015