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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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Pyaar Ka Punchnama
The first half is quite a laugh riot, but the narrative gets too scattered in the second.
May 2011
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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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Jhootha Hi Sahi
Startlingly flaccid and boring. Instead of making you feel for the characters, it leaves you disengaged and disinterested.
Oct 2010
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I Am Kalam
A straight, simple story with no great highs and lows and an easy resolution.
Aug 2011
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Cocktail
...feels like two different films. Pre-interval, it could have snatched 3 stars, but the post-interval bit spoils the show entirely.
Jul 2012
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May 2010
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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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Once Upon A Time In Mumbaai
...there is not enough dramatic tension which underlined the narratives of the ’70s and ’80s, no real big scenes to remember forever.
Aug 2010
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Not A Love Story
It does, seemingly, have a real story to tell and a pertinent point to make but in the end is an opportunity lost.
Aug 2011
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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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Badmaash Company
Begins well, there are some nice moments, but the second half gets way too moralistic.
May 2010
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Rockstar
...the setting, imagery, costumes, get overwrought and orchestrated, the emotions become magnified. What Imtiaz forgets is that simplicity can sometimes talk much more.
Nov 2011
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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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Jannat 2
It is a macho, chauvinistic world. The movie itself, though, acts rough and raw but isn’t gritty enough
May 2012
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Jan 2013
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ABCD - Any Body Can Dance - 2
A string of spectacular dance set-pieces linked together by random scenes.
Jun 2015
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Shuttlecock Boys
Celebrates the spirit of enterprise but doesn't offer any surprises. It stays more banal than cutting-edge.
Aug 2012
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Feb 2011
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The Dirty Picture
The film crumbles while negotiating the thin line between a woman's inherent power and her vulnerability.
Dec 2011
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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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Shamitabh
It all ends at the hospital, as most of Balki’s films do. Coming out of the theatre, I couldn’t help but think of his morbid fascination with sickness, disabilities and abnormalities. Sadly, the film feels more manipulative than sensitive. And also extremely boring.
Feb 2015
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Bheja Fry 2
The first half promises a cat-and-mouse game, but, post interval, it fumbles to a denouement...
Jul 2011
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Fatso
Leaves you curiously unmoved and strangely untouched. It has the feel of a TV drama, not a big screen feature.
May 2012
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Listen... Amaya
Doesn’t do justice to the nostalgia that it merrily plays on. A rather limp, listless and protracted narrative.
Feb 2013
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Jul 2015
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Aarakshan
Mainstream cinema has a way of simplifying the most complex of issues, but in that simplicity, it also manages to touch a chord, reach out and even initiate debate. Prakash Jha fails to do any of that with Aarakshan.
Aug 2011
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Yamla Pagla Deewana 2
Not once did I smile, let alone laugh out loud in this ‘comedy’.
Jun 2013
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Kapoor & Sons
Shakun Batra’s film has no plot, just the problems of getting a family together so that grandpa can get a family photo for his 90th birthday.
Mar 2016