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Paathshaala
...is staggeringly inept. The script by Hanif Sheikh has no discernable arc.
Apr 2010
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Dil Juunglee
Everything about Dil Juunglee is a bit on the wild side, completely arbitrary and illogical.
Mar 2018
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Munna Michael
...is only for fans of Tiger Shroff. All ye that haven't yet figured out what he is about, stay out of the way. You aren't likely to go home humming and dancing after watching this one.
Jul 2017
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Gang of Ghosts
It deserves a quick, unceremonious burial. Moral of the story: Never rake up ghosts of the past.
Mar 2014
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Rajjo
The old-fashioned plot is completely at variance with the present-day realities of the Mumbai underbelly that the film seeks to project.
Nov 2013
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Sep 2015
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Mar 2018
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Yamla Pagla Deewana Phir Se
Replete with silly adventures of this nature, Yamla Pagla Deewana Phir Se keeps returning to the realms of idiocy at the slightest provocation.
Aug 2018
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Apr 2011
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Son Of Sardaar
Poppycock in Phagwara: that is what the film should have been named. While the men on the screen defy gravity at will, the narrative defies logic without a care.
Nov 2012
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Fugly
The characters are poorly etched, the screenplay is insipid, and the performances, to say the least, are well below par.
Jun 2014
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Ungli
...when a film is more interesting for what it isn't than for what it is, giving it a miss might be the most prudent option.
Nov 2014
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Sep 2016
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Jul 2017
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Radio
...deliriously awful. Words cannot convey the experience. You have to check it out yourself.
Dec 2009
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Maatr
Subtleties and nuances are obviously beyond Maatr. It deals solely in broad strokes. No matter how much slack you are willing to cut this film, it will still need some more in order to have its glaring gaps glossed over.
Apr 2017
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Babumoshai Bandookbaaz
...hurtles towards an insipid, unintelligible climax, which includes a bout of Russian roulette between two adversaries. It is, in the end, much ado about nothing because the outcome of the life-and-death contest is as predictable as everything else in the film.
Aug 2017
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Tamanchey
A stodgy and aimless noir drama, it is a rusty gun that fires noisy blanks without making any impact at all.
Oct 2014
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Kis Kisko Pyaar Karoon
The obvious mismatch between aspiration and result is too glaring to be missed.
Sep 2015
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Banjo
...is a stodgy, sluggish film that makes a great deal of noise about giving true performers their due. It barely gets its noble point across.
Sep 2016
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Parmanu
...is as a flat as a pancake, a hopelessly limp exercise with creaky nucleus that is buried under a mound of forced tropes before it can get going.
May 2018
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Apartment
The acting is abysmal. The production values are tacky. And the writing is laugh-out-loud funny.
Apr 2010
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Brothers
It makes so much noise that any sensible point about brotherly bonding and filial fidelity that it might be trying to make is completely drowned out by the decibels.
Aug 2015
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Junooniyat
It isn’t that the pursuit of cloying sentimentality does not sometimes yield pleasantly surprising results. But don’t expect any such miracle from Junooniyat.
Jun 2016
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Bhoot – Part One
Only the very, very faint-hearted will find its jump scares worth the din that surrounds them. For the rest, Bhoot: Part One is akin to a ride on a stranded ship. You start at point A and end at point A and, what's worse, with a headache you could have done without.
Feb 2020
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Dharam Sankat Mein
The crisis at the heart of the plot of Dharam Sankat Mein extends well beyond the conflict that the protagonist confronts. It quickly engulfs the film as a whole as it beats about the bush and barely gets its act together.
Apr 2015
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A Flying Jatt
The lowbrow comic-strip spirit of A Flying Jatt extends to the film's rough-hewn production design. Nothing that appears on the screen, neither the houses nor the props, looks real.
Aug 2016
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Jun 2017
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Phata Poster Nikhla Hero
...is the kind of dim-witted comedy that might leave the hardiest of Bollywood junkies in tears.
Sep 2013