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The Legend of Michael Mishra
This film is a shoddily packaged cock-and-bull yarn that makes as little sense as an alligator waltzing on an autobahn.
Aug 2016
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Aug 2018
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Total Dhamaal
...is a great leveller - it reduces all of us, critics included, to dunces, some willing and some not-so-willing. But that would be only if you go anywhere near it. The choice is yours.
Feb 2019
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Motichoor Chaknachoor
Give Motichoor Chaknachoor a miss if you value your time - and sanity.
Nov 2019
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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
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Direct Ishq
With a poorly written and predictable story and screenplay, replete with cliches and humour, Direct Ishq gets nowhere even after it is over. Even the love story appears confused. The characters are flimsy, paper thin and trite.
Feb 2016
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Pal Pal Dil Ke Paas
...lacks the freshness that one would expect from a film with a new romantic pair. The reason is obvious: the plot is as old, but not as sturdy, as the hills.
Sep 2019
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Madam Chief Minister
...is a misfire that makes a great deal of noise without making much sense.
Jan 2021
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Oct 2018
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Pagalpanti
...does deliver something akin to the madhouse that it promises but its loony-bin approach to hilarity is too dated to be effective.
Nov 2019
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Genius
...no amount of flag-waving and chest-thumping can deflect from the fact that Genius is an unspeakably shoddy film.
Aug 2018
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Aug 2010
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Chitkabrey
Chitkabrey, which redefines cock-and-bull with gay abandon, is quite a test. Go for it only if you are a sucker for tedium.
Aug 2011
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Coolie No.1
...does not take into account that the world has changed since the David Dhawan-Govinda combo churned out hit after hit with their mad capers. The formula that yielded dividends all those years ago no longer does.
Dec 2020
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Policegiri
Everybody involved with this film deserves a break. The audience certainly does.
Jul 2013
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Yaariyan
...talks about a whole lot of other things – friendship, trust, patriotism, race attacks and tolerance – but makes no sense at all.
Jan 2014
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Welcome 2 Karachi
Indeed, not a shred of Welcome 2 Karachi, erstwhile Rohit Shetty assistant Ashish R Mohan's second film, is remotely welcoming.
May 2015
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Dec 2010
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Entertainment
...is unabashedly asinine and delivers anything but what the title promises.
Aug 2014
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Chalk N Duster
For intention, Chalk N Duster might get full marks, but the execution is so hopelessly ham-fisted that the film can only be described as an absolute botch-up.
Jan 2016
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Begum Jaan
...could well have been a film about a fantastic bunch of feisty, disparate women taking on all odds, but alas. We're left only with memories of some melancholy bores.
Apr 2017
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Bombairiya
...is a tangled mess, neither funny nor engaging. It's a comedy of errors all right - more errors than comedy. Be warned, don't even think of sitting through it. Torture isn't funny.
Jan 2019
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Joker
...is a crude joke of a film that will leave you in tears unless you have a stomach strong enough to digest such unmitigated junk.
Aug 2012
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Namaste England
...one more film of this quality and the careers of Arjun Kapoor and Parineeti Chopra could be in grave jeopardy.
Oct 2018
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Calendar Girls
Slapdash and sanctimonious, Calendar Girls is a stunner, but for all the wrong reasons. It is stunning in its sheer stupidity.
Sep 2015
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Sep 2017
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Shorgul
Explosive theme, damp-squib filmmaking: that, in a nutshell, is the story of Shorgul.
Jul 2016