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Baby
In the name of supposed 'realism', the film plays on and magnifies the popular perceptions about 'Islamic terror'.
Jan 2015
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Tevar
Despite its occasional flourishes and a basic competence of craft, you end up taking very little back home.
Jan 2015
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Action Jackson
Cartoonish characters, mindless comedy...a blatantly chauvinistic wannabe blockbuster.
Dec 2014
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Sulemani Keeda
An in-group Versova film that needed more to say hello to the world? Yet another variation of Luck By Chance, albeit from the margins?
Dec 2014
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Zed Plus
Nice doses of black humour and sharp, witty lines. But not quite an Indian Yes Minister.
Dec 2014
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Super Nani
Every once a week comes a movie that makes all the bad ones of the rest of the week seem like Citizen Kane.
Nov 2014
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Happy New Year
It held the promise of making fine art out of stupidity, yet went back on it.
Nov 2014
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Tamanchey
Everything about it is lacklustre—right from the script, direction and acting.
Oct 2014
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Bang Bang!
Obviously strange to buy the remake rights of a mediocre Hollywood film. More bizarre to fashion an even worse Hindi film out of it.
Oct 2014
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Finding Fanny
If the characters seem to come straight out of Mario Miranda cartoons, the telling seems to have taken a page out of Amelie...
Sep 2014
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Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhania
Something about it works: it is a ‘100 per cent original fake’ of DDLJ.
Jul 2014
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Bobby Jasoos
The Charminar, Ramzan, Iftaari, Id, food...all help in building up an atmosphere that’s more delicious than the suspense itself. In fact, there’s hardly any mystery at the heart of Bobby Jasoos and the tepid climax proves to be very disappointing.
Jul 2014
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Jul 2014
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Ek Villain
A clumsy mess of a narrative loop—stories within stories and backstories within backstories, all leading nowhere.
Jul 2014
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Jun 2014
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Children Of War
...an unforgiving film that is a strong reminder that horrors of history never leave us.
May 2014
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Hawaa Hawaai
Despite all the good intentions, the film wallows in its goodness and left me cold by its sheer virtue.
May 2014
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Main Tera Hero
Gets way too random and hit and miss. Doesn’t feel fresh enough and lacks the vital spark.
Apr 2014
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Bhoothnath Returns
The film’s structure gets lopsided, the second half is uneven and overstretched, and often the director ends up overstating his good intentions.
Apr 2014
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Youngistaan
The film lacks the punch and power essential for it to be consistently engaging.
Apr 2014
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Queen
...a squarely mainstream film. Simplistic? Undemanding? Perhaps. But ultimately it is immensely warm and winsome, pressing just the right emotional buttons.
Mar 2014
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Ankhon Dekhi
...a film that moves, provokes, sets you thinking and questioning but doesn’t provide you any easy answers. But it does take you on an enriching journey within if you allow yourself to flow with its current.
Mar 2014
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Miss Lovely
It peels the makeup off the glamour world, shows the ugliness, dirt, slime and debauchery on the periphery, however offensive it may be. It doesn’t aim to please.
Jan 2014
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Dedh Ishqiya
Chaubey’s caper scores with its delectable atmosphere, seeped in culture and music. It’s a world of paan, poetry and protocol, of erudition and affectations. Rarely has crime been served so sodden in nostalgia.
Jan 2014
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Dhoom 3
Street food gone hopelessly bland, a papdi chaat that tastes more like cold porridge.
Dec 2013
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Jackpot
The most unbearable film of 2013. Utterly boring, inane, kiddish tale about a con job gone awry.
Dec 2013
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Gori Tere Pyaar Mein
Strikes a hugely wrong note by trying to be self-righteous at a time when sanctimony is under attack.
Dec 2013
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Singh Saab The Great
Shows how the Anil Sharma brand of cinema seems so utterly redundant now.
Dec 2013
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Ram-leela
A fervour and fanaticism so pounding that it utterly tires one down, rather than offering any highs.
Nov 2013
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Krrish 3
The film tries to raise the bar for Bollywood superhero films with its better-than-the-rest SFX and cinematography, but remains thoroughly clunky at heart. The content and characters, the story-telling and dialogue are tacky.
Nov 2013