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102 Not Out
This is patchy fare that is only mildly diverting despite the best efforts of two veteran actors at the top of their game.
May 2018
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Romeo Akbar Walter
...visions are raised of a sinewy, edge-of-the-seat espionage thriller crammed, end to end, with intrigue and tension. What we get instead is an overlong and monumentally drab movie that centres on the unflappable undercover spy-protagonist scrounging around in Karachi for crumbs of preemptive information about the enemy nation's war plans.
Apr 2019
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Atithi Tum Kab Jaoge?
...attempts to impart valuable lessons but the comic sugar-coating just doesn't crackle enough.
Mar 2010
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Tiger Zinda Hai
Undeniably impressive in terms of its scale and flawless technical attributes, Tiger Zinda Hai is an exercise that rings utterly hollow. Its surface nous cannot conceal the sheer purposeless of all the noise it generates.
Dec 2017
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Prince
...is the funniest Bollywood movie I've seen this year. I laughed so hard that my sides hurt. Only I don't think that's the reaction debutant director Kookie V Gulati was aiming for.
Apr 2010
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Pyaar Ka Punchnama
The plot is inert and the dialogue, vacuous. The film feels like it's in slow-motion. Nothing much happens for a very long time.
May 2011
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Rowdy Rathore
Riddled with an array of loud, lame and specious contrivances, Rowdy Rathore plays out pretty much like a comic-book fantasy rendered in the form of a live-action film.
Jun 2012
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Gulaab Gang
Women who weave their own pink saris and are determined to put all pigs in their place, even if they are in the make-believe world of Gulaab Gang, should be the last people to enforce a stereotype that Hindi films have perpetuated for decades.
Mar 2014
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Luka Chuppi
...isn't without its moments, but its downside overwhelms its strengths by a big margin.
Mar 2019
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Chance Pe Dance
...tries to combine a dance movie with a Bollywood-cinderella story and comes up empty-handed.
Jan 2010
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Saina
Parineeti Chopra gives it her best shot, Manav Kaul lifts provides the film a fillip when he is on the screen and the badminton action is staged with aplomb. But, despite the pluses, Amole Gupte's Saina is a mishit.
Mar 2021
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Kill Dil
It simply doesn't have enough soul and substance to be able to go all the way to the finish line with its grand design in one piece.
Nov 2014
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Soorma
...Bollywood just doesn't do sports well. Its rules militate against the genre. Soorma, a wasted opportunity, demonstrates why and how.
Jul 2018
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Uri
...sketchy writing is a problem that plagues the film as a whole. But for the presence of Vicky Kaushal, whose character desists from overt chest-thumping, Uri: The Surgical Strike would have been a complete washout.
Jan 2019
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Malang
If you are seeking manic, mesmeric madness, Malang certainly isn't the film for you. But it might just live up to modest expectations.
Feb 2020
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Ready
...made me laugh sporadically but beyond a point I could almost feel my brain cells shrinking and exhaustion setting in, one joke at a time.
Jun 2011
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Baby
...a superficial cinematic condensation of the shrill television images, newspaper headlines and communally-charged political posturing that we are subjected to day in and day out. Who needs more?
Jan 2015
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Mohenjo Daro
...is stuck in the past and not just in terms of its substance. What the film clearly says is that both director Gowariker and Hrithik need to move on and reinvent themselves.
Aug 2016
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Dobaara
...the portentous game of shadows, silhouettes and sly suggestions, which alternates between the teasing and the terrifying, is too much superficial style for a film so slight.
Jun 2017
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Hunterrr
... is way off the mark. It isn't utterly pointless, but it is neither hugely engaging nor particularly insightful.
Mar 2015
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Meeruthiya Gangsters
The pitfall of this film is writer- director Zeishan Quadri's amateurishly penned script.
Sep 2015
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102 Not Out
...the film relies too heavily on prosthetics, with liver spots being used either for laughs, or instead of character details.
May 2018
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Jalebi
...undermined considerably by the erratic quality of the acting from a cast led by two first-timers, Varun Mitra and Digangana Suryavanshi, and a still-raw Rhea Chakraborty.
Oct 2018
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Mar 2010
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Holiday
...lacks the sustained intensity and urgency of an edge-of-the-seat spy thriller.
Jun 2014
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A Gentleman
...is a pileup of little ideas gone haywire. They could have done with more breathing room.
Aug 2017
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Dhadak
The film saunters rather than sprints. In Sairat, that strategy clicked famously because that film had its heart in the right place. Dhadak doesn't. The result is a grind that pretty frames and fresh faces cannot mitigate.
Jul 2018
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Super 30
...it tells a true story but it never rings true. Nothing in the film is less convincing than the lead performance. The idea to bronze up Hrithik Roshan so that he can impersonate Anand Kumar is anything but super: it is a formula that equals zero.
Jul 2019