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M.S. Dhoni
Instead of delving into the complexities of an international sporting career with its share of controversy, the patchy script glosses over the grey areas and concentrates squarely on lionizing Dhoni as a model sportsman.
Sep 2016
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Naam Shabana
...for all its avowed aspirations, it rarely ventures beyond the trite and tested. Watch it only if standard-fare action dramas do not put you off.
Mar 2017
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Veere Di Wedding
...if you are not looking for radical departures from norm and are happy watching a film that seeks to blur gender expectations without shaking the boat too much, Veere di Wedding could pass muster. Does it give you your money's worth? It does. Does it break new ground? Fat chance.
Jun 2018
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Mohalla Assi
Had the immense potential of the literary text that forms the foundation of Mohalla Assi been even half realized, this would have been powerful indictment of the pernicious brand of politics that thrives on communal hatred and socio-religious divisions.
Nov 2018
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Good Newwz
...the complexity and depth inherent in the principal plot point remain beyond the ken of a screenplay that thrives on broad strokes.
Dec 2019
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Tees Maar Khan
In Tees Maar Khan, everyone is overacting as though life depends on it. There is a lot of screaming, grimacing and heaving.
Dec 2010
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Aug 2014
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Toh Baat Pakki
...feels like eating left-overs that have been reheated too many times. It’s not very appetizing.
Feb 2010
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Baaghi 2
It is, in the end, a bloody mess. Tiger roars vigorously, but he can only add to the wild cacophony.
Mar 2018
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Batti Gul Meter Chalu
...makes the right noises for the most part. If only it took less time and fewer detours to get to the point, it might have dodged its frequent blackouts.
Sep 2018
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Tum Milo Toh Sahi
...the attempt here was a bitter-sweet love letter to Mumbai and its people but the film is fatally undone by the clumsy writing. The screenplay is static and the dialogue, superbly low IQ.
Apr 2010
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Lekar Hum Deewana Dil
A tiresome tale of a pair of barely-out-of-their-teens lovers who elope before they are ready for the resultant ordeal, Lekar Hum Deewana Dil is a runaway mess.
Jul 2014
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Firangi
Neither the comic potential at the core of the film nor the energy of Kapil Sharma's antics is enough to pull it out of the irremediable mess it degenerates into. Firangi might have been harmless fun if only it had stopped short of running so hopelessly amok.
Dec 2017
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Bhavesh Joshi Superhero
Motwane has made a minimal and bare-knuckled vigilante film that means well, but is built out of obvious influences. We know exactly where it's heading, but it still leaves us waiting at the signal too long.
Jun 2018
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2.0
The good versus evil tropes that 2.0 employs are trite, but the battle at the heart of the film - it pits a warped model if development against in the need for ecological conservation in a no-holds-barred fantasy - has moments that are thought-provoking and entertaining at once.
Nov 2018
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Raat Gayi Baat Gayi
...pitched as a romantic comedy but is neither very funny nor very romantic.
Jan 2010
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I Me Aur Main
...a rather listless drama about grown-ups who still have much growing up to do. Eventually it amounts to much ado about nothing.
Mar 2013
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Boss
The humour is cringingly coarse, the stunts are completely over the top and the emotions never ring true.
Oct 2013
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Anjaana Anjaani
...has a flatness that is unique. The screenplay, co-written by Siddharth and Advaita Kala from a story by Mamata Anand, goes nowhere fast.
Oct 2010
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Chef
...holds no secret sauce of its own, but perhaps we shouldn't be that surprised. There is only that much you can do with a reheated film.
Oct 2017
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Roohi
It delivers a reasonably passable first half - it is enlivened by Varun Sharma's comic timing - but then meanders into a post-interval stretch that limps around in circles until a bizarre twist in the climax sends us home scratching our heads and wondering what on earth has hit us.
Mar 2021
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Pankh
...is frankly ugly and beyond a point, absolutely tedious. Sanjay and Sudipto want to be edgy and dark but the writing isn’t sophisticated enough to support their ambitions.
Apr 2010
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Tevar
...a film that is more fizzle than sizzle, with too much gratuitous violence marring the broth.
Jan 2015
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Jab Harry Met Sejal
...is cinema's equivalent of a shiny bauble that glitters wholly in vain. Watch it only if you fancy a vicarious romp through Europe with an off-colour megastar trying hard to get going.
Aug 2017
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Bhavesh Joshi Superhero
...in its bid to be dark, cool and edgy, it cannot shrug off its air of puerility. If not pure bunkum, it strays dangerously close, like Icarus, to slipping off its orbit completely.
Jun 2018
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Kedarnath
The special effects aren't up to scratch nor is the screenplay, but do watch the film for Sara Ali Khan.
Dec 2018
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Bharat
...is a full-on crowd-pleaser for the massive fan base out there seeking recompense for the Tubelight and Race 3 reverses. But for the rest, Bharat is a ponderous trudge.
Jun 2019