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Shorgul
Explosive theme, damp-squib filmmaking: that, in a nutshell, is the story of Shorgul.
Jul 2016
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Jabariya Jodi
...a film that appears to have been made under duress by a group of people playing blind man's buff, is a big splotch of utter nonsense.
Aug 2019
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Ek Paheli Leela
The painfully pointless Ek Paheli Leela is a full-blown cinematic conundrum whose depth is inversely proportional to the geneorus decolletage that is on show.
Apr 2015
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Aug 2016
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Judwaa 2
...might work for those that don't mind being sold old trash in a new, garishly painted sack. For all others, it would be akin to being strapped to a seat in a torture chamber.
Sep 2017
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Baaghi 2
It is a long, painful film capable of giving audiences post-traumatic stress disorder.
Mar 2018
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Zila Ghaziabad
The film unleashes such a merciless, ceaseless and mindless onslaught on the senses and the eardrums that it could actually put the assault rifles of the most trigger-happy of crime lords in the shade.
Feb 2013
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Singh Is Bliing
What is irretrievably amiss with the film is that nothing it says manages to drift anywhere near some degree of coherence.
Oct 2015
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Tubelight
...means well, an anti-war movie that illustrates the pointlessness of battle and the importance of not actively hating those you are at war with, and while its simplistic message is timely and admirable, the film is rendered unwatchable because of the leading man.
Jun 2017
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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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Dunno Y Na Jaane Kyun...
The script, performances, dialogue and direction are so staggeringly inept that Dunno Y is an instant classic and the latest entrant to my list of so-bad-they-are-good films.
Nov 2010
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Gandhi To Hitler
...has the feel of a Z-grade quickie destined to be quickly consigned to the dustbins of movie history. The concept is hare-brained and the execution ham-handed and that’s putting it mildly.
Jul 2011
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Sanam Teri Kasam
...is neither a believable romantic yarn nor are its stabs of stupidity within the realms of the passable.
Feb 2016
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Click
How hard can it be to make a reasonably diverting horror film if all you’re doing is copying? Well, if you’re Sangeeth Sivan, the answer is: very hard.
Feb 2010
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Apr 2015
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Jeena Isi Ka Naam Hai
... is this a film? Not by a long shot. Jeena Isi Ka Naam Hai is more an endurance test, a lumbering mess that wanders all over the place both literally and figuratively, hobbling along in no particular direction.
Mar 2017
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Notebook
Can picture-postcard images paper over misshapen pockmarks left on a film by a pair of rough-on-the-edges new actors finding their tentative way through a sloppy screenplay and going around in circles? If Notebook, Nitin 'Filmistaan' Kakkar's third film, is anything to go by, the answer is a big, resounding no.
Mar 2019
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Mar 2020
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Kismet Love Paisa Dilli
The makers of KLPD might as well, as a statutory warning, have added another letter to the title to denote ASSAULT. Yes, this wannabe comic thriller is an all-out assault on the senses.
Oct 2012
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Pyaar Ka Punchnama 2
...does pretty much the same, but the novelty has worn off and it is saddled with an insufferably inept screenplay.
Oct 2015
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Guest Iin London
It is an excruciatingly painful, abjectly misshapen creature that stomps about absolutely aimlessly.
Jul 2017
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Nanu Ki Jaanu
...a heavy-handed jumble that is both horrific and funny, neither of which is remotely intentional.
Apr 2018
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Marjaavaan
...which is anything but a film to die for, writer-director Milap Milan Zaveri whips up a stale masala concoction that transports the audience right back to a Bollywood era gone by.
Nov 2019
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Hate Story 3
Hate would be a completely wasted emotion here. Do yourself a favour and just ignore Hate Story 3.
Dec 2015
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Apr 2017
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Kyaa Super Kool Hain Hum
The film is ostensibly targeted at the teen segment and it might even find some takers there. But it barely passes muster as a sex comedy. It’s crude, crass and completely clueless.
Jul 2012
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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