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Kajarya
...a powerful and important film that finds vestiges of genuine humanity in an area of impenetrable darkness. But it offers no false hopes.
Dec 2015
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I Am Kalam
...shows how beautiful small can be, especially when the heart is in the right place and the mind is clued in.
Aug 2011
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Baar Baar Dekho
It strings together scenes from a situation of marital calamity with an easygoing swagger that Ingmar Bergman would have found distracting.
Sep 2016
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Daas Dev
...must rank among the better screen adaptations of Devdas, not the least because of its daring, free-wheeling departures from the norm laid down for cinema derived from literary sources.
Apr 2018
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Andhadhun
Watch Andhadhun with your ears, eyes and minds open. You will come away with your senses heightened.
Oct 2018
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Peepli [Live]
It has its heart in the right place, and it's a heart backed by a ticking mind.
Aug 2010
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Newton
It is only rarely that wit and wisdom come together in a Hindi film as felicitously as it does here.
Sep 2017
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Chittagong
...certainly isn't a drab and dreary history lesson. It manages to be a gripping human drama without being either a sweeping Hollywood-style adventure or a Bollywood-inflected patriotic saga cranked up to a defeaning pitch for easy consumption.
Oct 2012
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Dedh Ishqiya
Dedh Ishqiya entertains, but does so in a manner that does not trifle with the intelligence of the audience.
Jan 2014
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Citylights
It is a film that shocks, provokes and seeks to prick our collective complacency and apathy. That obviously adds up to infinitely more value than the price of a multiplex ticket.
May 2014
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Sanju
...is the film that it is because of the infectious energy Ranbir Kapoor injects into the film. An absolute must-watch.
Jun 2018
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Article 15
...is an important addition to a very small number of Hindi films that have successfully tackled weighty social issues through the means of a more popular idiom.
Jun 2019
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Gangs Of Wasseypur 2
The sequel gets to the point infinitely quicker than Gangs Of Wasseypur did – it is free from the information overload that weighed down the initial 30 minutes of the first part.
Aug 2012
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Filmistaan
This quirky charmer from first-time director Nitin is fresh in vision and enchanting in execution.
Jun 2014
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Titli
A slow-burning, searing crime drama that shuns the conventional trappings of the genre, first-time director Kanu Behl’s Titli is a remarkably sure-footed film.
Oct 2015
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Pink
...is an evocative film about women, brimming with messages relevant for society, and keeps you riveted to the screen.
Sep 2016
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Shanghai
...a no-frills but searing political thriller that is under-wired with intelligence and nerve, both cinematic and ideological.
Jun 2012
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Dhanak
Kukunoor enhances the magic of the parable by throwing in delightfully quirky encounters that veer into the heart of fairy-tale terrain without ever losing a sense of reality.
Jun 2016
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Ae Dil Hai Mushkil
It is an infectiously buoyant, emotionally engaging and superbly acted drama that could disarm even the most inveterate of cynics.
Oct 2016
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Haider
With scintillating performances by almost all the actors and music which can give you goosebumps, Vishal Bhadwaj has literally created magic on screen.
Oct 2014
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Neerja
Defying every norm laid down in the mainstream Bollywood rule-book, Neerja coaxes a riveting two-hour drama out of a real-life tale of extraordinary courage.
Feb 2016
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Lootera
...a Bollywood miracle – a rare Mumbai film that is mounted on a lavish scale and yet dares not to play by the established norms of the marketplace.
Jul 2013
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Miss Lovely
Dark, disturbing and disorienting, Miss Lovely is the sort of film grips viewers by the gullet and drags them into a claustrophobic crevice.
Jan 2014
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Pink
...works because the grimness of the material doesn't weigh on the telling. This isn't a laboured lecture on women's rights.
Sep 2016
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Vishwaroop
...trust producer-director-actor Kamal Haasan to serve up the good old filmic formula in a well-mounted cinematic package that lends the largely predictable material an impressive veneer.
Feb 2013
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Madras Cafe
...a sinewy and riveting espionage thriller that entertains without having to play to the gallery.
Aug 2013
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Udta Punjab
...is not family entertainment, but it is an undeniably magnificent - and purposeful - commercial Hindi film. Do not miss it.
Jun 2016
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Mukkabaaz
...packs a massive punch. Watch it because it is one of the more important films to have come out of the Mumbai movie industry in recent times.
Jan 2018