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Brothers
With its overworked plot devices, this slugfest has neither drama nor depth to offer.
Aug 2015
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Aug 2016
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Made In China
...is a film with potential. But like the placebo effect in ‘Tiger Magic Soup’, deceives to flatter.
Oct 2019
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Patiala House
With its formulaic perspective and wishy-washy characters drawn from British sitcoms, this is no Bend It Like Beckham. Or even close.
Feb 2011
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Mar 2013
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Shamitabh
A disappointing film despite Amitabh’s engaging performance and a decent story idea.
Feb 2015
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Shaandaar
An outlandish screenplay does nothing to save this shoddy lookalike of a Lewis Caroll classic.
Oct 2015
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Rangoon
...it is all the more startling to see what Bhardwaj does to the scenario that he so painstakingly creates in Rangoon. He ‘Bollywoodizes’ it; to a degree bordering on the absurd.
Feb 2017
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Mar 2019
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Jan 2020
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D-Day
An action-packed film that doesn’t give the audience space to jeer at its implausible storyline.
Jul 2013
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Baaghi 2
...the film diverts us from the totally unconvincing dialogue delivery style of Tiger. It also establishes a right leaning ideological position that always works well with an action movie audience.
Mar 2018
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India‘s Most Wanted
This is a reasonably watchable film that, unfortunately, goes off the radar every now and then.
May 2019
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Kaamyaab
...is not interested in this discussion. For a movie that highlights the abysmal condition of smaller actors, sustained by audience nostalgia alone, it avoids speaking on the bigger picture.
Mar 2020
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Mohenjo Daro
...the telling of the film is slow, long winded, pointless, and extraordinarily boring.
Aug 2016
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Uri
Though a watchable film, ‘URI: The Surgical Strike’, is too much a work of pre-election propaganda.
Jan 2019
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Ujda Chaman
...does fall prey to a few rom-com cliches in the middle. But it perks up later on, and treats us to some delightfully well played and resonant scenes between the lead actors, sequences that bring a measure of proportionality to the film.
Nov 2019
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Vicky Donor
This film has a sense of humour that cuts across class and cerebral levels.
Apr 2012
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Mar 2013
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Shaadi Ke Side Effects
This is not a film, it’s a recipe for a romcom. And a very middle-class one at that.
Mar 2014
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Roy
Elegantly shot but utterly incoherent, this ambitious film is an exercise in obfuscation.
Feb 2015
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Chhapaak
...the emotional resonance, moments of poignancy, that you expect from a Meghna Gulzar film, are missing. What is left is an uneven movie.
Jan 2020
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Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani
A film as rootless and rife with loose ends as the pretty people in it.
Jun 2013
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Jism - 2
Sunny Leone is sexy alright, but this film is about as erotic as a Disney animation feature.
Aug 2012
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Nov 2011
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Talaash
...is a dull movie and a large part of the disappointment is in the casting and performance of Aamir Khan.
Dec 2012
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Bombairiya
The script of this film is no different. It throws up a lofty ideal and then quickly buries it in the absurdly meandering plot of its narrative.
Jan 2019
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Badrinath Ki Dulhania
The movie positions itself in popular culture as advocating the freedom of a woman to choose career over marriage. However, broken down into its individual segments, what we get is a virtual endorsement of harassment as a legitimate tool of persuasion.
Mar 2017