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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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Sanam Re
The befuddling, undercooked storyline is sure to leave most viewers wondering where it actually begins and where it ends. Sanam Re is a juvenile jumble that is undecipherable.
Feb 2016
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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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Saheb Biwi Aur Gangster 3
Pretty much like the political prowess that the film's fading, flailing feudal figures and their cohorts exercise, the potential of the premise to deliver surprises has, on the evidence of this outing, waned significantly.
Jul 2018
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Saheb Biwi Aur Gangster Returns
...an intense, effervescent and eventually melancholic film.
Mar 2013
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Saat Uchhakkey
...is far too undercooked a broth to pass for what it wants to be - a zany, off-the-beaten-track entertainer.
Oct 2016
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Saand Ki Aankh
...is never less than credible while being true to the impulse to craft an entertaining real-life chronicle. More than your money's worth, it is a film that delivers food for thought and emotional stimulation in one go.
Oct 2019
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Saala Khadoos
...despite the many promising situations that it rustles up along the way, there is little room in the well-intentioned yet rough-hewn drama for genuine surprises.
Jan 2016
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Saaho
...may, like so many other shrill, gory actioners of the recent past, end up make pots of money. But that will not take away from the fact that it is egregiously turgid.
Aug 2019
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Rustom
...is largely inoffensive, even passable in the main, but could have been infinitely better had the screenplay not been so utterly conventional and unimaginative.
Aug 2016
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Running Shaadi
...a film that never finds its feet. So let alone break into a steady trot, it can barely get out of its cramped crouch.
Feb 2017
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Roy
A film lavished with dollops of visual style and aural sophistication, Roy would have been a runaway cinematic delight if only its makers had coupled its impressive surface gloss with a modicum of substance.
Feb 2015
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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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Roohi
It delivers a reasonably passable first half - it is enlivened by Varun Sharma's comic timing - but then meanders into a post-interval stretch that limps around in circles until a bizarre twist in the climax sends us home scratching our heads and wondering what on earth has hit us.
Mar 2021
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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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Rocky Handsome
...a slick, stylistically derivative neo-noir thriller that is surprisingly humdrum.
Mar 2016
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Rockstar
...has a Sufi soul. If only it had been set free and allowed to go the whole hog!
Nov 2011
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Rocket Singh
...never becomes more than the sum of its parts but still I recommend that you make time for it. Just be prepared to be patient.
Dec 2009
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Rock On 2
It rocks only sporadically, and it almost never sways the audience enough for the latter to crave for another helping.
Nov 2016
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Robot
...is exhausting. You won’t have much energy left when it’s done. But this roller-coaster ride should be experienced.
Oct 2010
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Roar: Tigers Of The Sundarbans
...suffers from an over-written, excessively punctuated plot that groans and heaves forward wheezing with baggage fatigue.
Oct 2014
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Mar 2010
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Revolver Rani
A Kangana Ranaut film seems to be increasingly acquiring the proportions of a genre unto itself. It needs neither saleable male co-stars nor the tried-and-tested conventions of Bollywood blockbusters.
Apr 2014
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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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Jan 2010
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Rangoon
...is wholeheartedly recommended but with a rider: it isn't a stroll in the park because it demands patience and concentration.
Feb 2017
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Nov 2014
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Ramprasad Ki Tehrvi
Wit, warmth and wisdom coalesce beautifully in this genteel yet incisive film about a dysfunctional and unfailingly relatable family.
Jan 2021
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Ramayana
...an ambitious step toward better homegrown cinema for children. I just wish it had more crackle.
Oct 2010
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Raman Raghav 2.0
Anurag Kashyap is back where he belongs and there is nothing remotely velvety in the director's felicitous return to his creative comfort zone.
Jun 2016