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Bullett Raja
Despite all this interesting sub-text, the film fails to grip you with its central narrative.
Dec 2013
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Bobby Jasoos
Despite nailing its sociocultural context, this mildly entertaining film is uneventful.
Jul 2014
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Guddu Rangeela
With the exception of an amusing song, this ‘Jatland’ comedy has little to offer.
Jul 2015
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Manmarziyaan
With ‘Mukkabaaz’ last year, and with ‘Manmarziyaan’ today, he (Kashyap) looks more and more like a mainstream film maker with a fine command of film technique, whose unique and original perspective has been merged, unobtrusively, into an amorphous entity called pop cinema.
Sep 2018
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Family Of Thakurganj
...is a movie about hoodlums and racketeers, with not much to remember it by, save the acting.
Jul 2019
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Tees Maar Khan
Parody of the medium is legitimate, but when it substitutes for content, you have to ask-is the mind of the maker no more than a blank slate?
Dec 2010
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Table No. 21
A rare Bollywood movie in which the protagonists are greedy, hedonistic and sadistic.
Jan 2013
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Happy Ending
A dull romcom and an even duller parody of the genre, this film falls dead flat.
Nov 2014
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Katti Batti
What could have been a potent statement on urban relationships turns too mushy for its own good.
Sep 2015
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Main Tera Hero
Varun Dhawan has the comic chops, but the new sidekicks are not as fun as Kader Khan and Co.
Apr 2014
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Hunterrr
Well cast and mildly entertaining, this adult comedy confuses stalking with seduction.
Mar 2015
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Dabangg
Unlike a typical Salman Khan movie, this has got a plot, a well-behaved hero, and even a script.
Sep 2010
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Aarakshan
Since the movie looks to create consent, it deliberately avoids litigious or divisive aspects of the issue.
Aug 2011
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Sep 2012
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Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhania
The two lead actors are lively, but their performances are one dimensional.
Jul 2014
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I Love NY
A dull romcom with endless banter on love and sex, this film is watchable only for Kangana’s act.
Jul 2015
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Madaari
...s a very predictable film, but is held together by some very touching moments brought about by Irrfan’s ability to establish a rapport with his co-actors...
Jul 2016
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Pataakha
A similar nation state in India, with room for a myriad political innuendos to co-exist, allows Bhardwaj a lot of freedom in his Shakespeare adaptations. Most importantly, there are full fledged plots to interpret, instead of half baked ones like in ‘Pataakha’. Plus, there are 34 more plays he can still work on.
Sep 2018
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Jan 2011
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Jan 2013
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Zed Plus
Even though its narrative is predictable, this film is a well performed political satire.
Dec 2014
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Dum Maaro Dum
...is chipped china, but in the context of recent Hindi movies, at least you are drinking from crockery.
Apr 2011
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Ferrari Ki Sawaari
Caught between two stories, a kiddie cricket fantasy and an adult automobile romance, the film doesn’t work.
Jun 2012
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Bhoothnath Returns
Bachchan and the kid pull off some funny scenes, but then it gets all preachy on us.
Apr 2014
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Apr 2015
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Kalank
So this is a film with expensive, but ultimately poor, production values. It is a multi-star movie, with actors trapped into delivering theatrical lines that make their personas unrecognisable. This is hugely disappointing.
Apr 2019
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OMG Oh My God!
Highly entertaining, this film is a refreshing demolition of India’s never-ending divinity.
Oct 2012
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B.A. Pass
So despite a fairly compact 95 minutes, the movie has a sense of incompleteness, with the inner life of the most interesting character ignored.
Aug 2013