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Pad Man
...PadMan isn't because the story just had to be told. It's been done before - in last year's low-budget Phullu and the unreleased I-Pad. Here, it is the canvas and the presence of an A-list star that makes the difference.
Feb 2018
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Pad Man
...is a genuinely strong movie, telling an unlikely story in likeable fashion and doing it briskly and smartly.
Feb 2018
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Padmaavat
The problem lies not in Padmaavat being a costume drama, but in the fact that there is too much costume, too little drama.
Jan 2018
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Paathshaala
...is staggeringly inept. The script by Hanif Sheikh has no discernable arc.
Apr 2010
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One Night Stand
No matter how hard the director tries to liven up the proceedings, the absence of genuine substance prevents One Night Stand from rising above the irretrievably banal.
May 2016
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One By Two
There is no dearth of perspiration in screenwriter Devika Bhagat’s directorial debut. She packs quite a lot into the film. Yet it feels wafer-thin.
Jan 2014
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Once Upon A Time In Mumbai Dobaara
...falls well short of being quite as engaging as the film that it is a sequel to.
Aug 2013
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OMG Oh My God!
...even at its worst, does not ever deteriorate into WTF, thanks to the wondrous presence of Paresh Rawal. It's certainly not a waste of time.
Sep 2012
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Omerta
When violence is perpetrated indiscriminately and without any moral context created with the aid of a detailed back story, it can only be deeply disconcerting. Omerta is just that and therein lies its success.
May 2018
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Ok Jaanu
A breezy, feel-good romance with its share of highs, OK Jaanu floats along through some interesting thematic territory without managing to soar to the altitude one expects it to.
Jan 2017
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O Teri
The film, all 107 minutes of it, is a full frontal assault that gives the audience no options at all. The only emotion it arouses is disgust.
Mar 2014
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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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Not A Love Story
...engaging and watchable – if for nothing else, for the flashes of the RGV of yore.
Aug 2011
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Noor
With Noor, for example, I cannot for the life of me figure out why the film's heroine wants to be a journalist.
Apr 2017
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Noor
...is as appetizing as a flat beer. Whatever little effervescence it has is only window dressing.
Apr 2017
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Dec 2010
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No One Killed Jessica
...is in places, powerful and moving. But it's also loud, simplistic and somewhat schizophrenic in tone
Jan 2011
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No Fathers In Kashmir
...places the various facets of the unrest on the table and does not overplay its hand. The impact of the quality writing, the steady cinematography and the sharp editing is enhanced significantly by a cast of actors who strike the right notes all the way.
Apr 2019
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NH10
...an adventurous Bollywood film that breaks the shackles of convention and is none the worse for it. Eminently watchable.
Mar 2015
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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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Newton
...a film that, while striving to be admirably dry, proves at times to be achingly dull. The film's go-nowhere pace seems to be a conscious decision but its highest, most telling moments come through scintillating lines of dialogue (take a bow, Mayank Tewari) and actorly flourishes from a great ensemble.
Sep 2017
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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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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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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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Nakkash
...only skims the surface of a complex theme. Instead of raining hammer blows on politics that is driven by discord and distrust, it manages to inflict only a few pin pricks on its target. Be that as it may, any film that has its heart in the right place - Nakkash does - merits commendation.
May 2019
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Naam Shabana
...for all its avowed aspirations, it rarely ventures beyond the trite and tested. Watch it only if standard-fare action dramas do not put you off.
Mar 2017
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My Name is Khan
...never becomes the empowering, inspiring Forest Gump-like epic. Mainly because the connective tissue tying it together is deeply flawed and in places, embarrassingly naive.
Feb 2010
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Murder 3
...has plenty of visual flair, but at times all its labour might seem wasted on a tale that strains too hard for effect. It is steamy all right but tends to run out of steam at crucial junctures.
Feb 2013
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Jul 2011