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Agent Vinod
There is an incredible urge to run a fine comb through Agent Vinod, to straighten the several strands, trajectories, characters, locations that end up as one big clutter in the mind’s eye.
Apr 2012
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Kahaani
The spoon-feeding takes the intrigue away. I come away feeling cheated and look back at the whole construct with reservations.
Mar 2012
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Gali Gali Chor Hai
Half-baked and slipshod, looks terribly dated and very loosely edited.
Feb 2012
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Chaalis Chauraasi
An exasperatingly extended introduction to utterly inane and colourless characters.
Jan 2012
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Chaalis Chauraasi
The film crumbles while negotiating the thin line between a woman's inherent power and her vulnerability.
Dec 2011
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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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Rockstar
Utterly boring and confused, randomly shifting gears from the comic to the melodramatic. Go for this only if you want to be rocked to sleep.
Oct 2011
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Jo Dooba So Paar
The kind of film that makes you wish the filmmaker had thought twice before making it.
Oct 2011
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Soundtrack
It's endearing, playful and filled with laughter and banter. A heartwarming tale that makes you want to shed your cynicism and believe in love.
Oct 2011
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Mere Brother Ki Dulhan
The story is evident in the title, so you expect other elements in the film to keep the interest going. Sadly there's almost nothing of it.
Sep 2011
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That Girl in Yellow Boots
Anurag Kashyap narrates it slowly, bit by bit, with a lingering calm and control that makes the film unsettling and affecting.
Sep 2011
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That Girl in Yellow Boots
This Id, it is Salman Mubarak. However, fans be warned that Bodyguard does not offer them the familiar Sallu bhaigiri.
Sep 2011
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That Girl in Yellow Boots
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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Chatur Singh Two Star
...Bollywood's indescribably banal take on the comic Inspector Clouseau played by Peter Sellers in Blake Edwards' Pink Panther series.
Aug 2011
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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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Not A Love Story
A straight, simple story with no great highs and lows and an easy resolution.
Aug 2011
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Not A Love Story
The tone is uniformally over-the-top—loud dialogue and acting, shrill jokes, dazzling colours, kitschy sets and costumes and stylised choreography.
Jul 2011
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Jul 2011
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Jul 2011
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Murder 2
Sex, skin and gore: unfortunately, all it eventually adds up to is quite a big bore.
Jul 2011
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Bbuddah...Hoga Terra Baap
Tries way too hard and as a result feels more desperate than delicious.
Jul 2011
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Bbuddah...Hoga Terra Baap
It could get very discomfiting and disconcerting for some, but for this reviewer it was a merry lark of a film, the most entertaining in 2011 thus far.
Jul 2011
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Always Kabhi Kabhi
A frothy high school romance with a message-in-the-bottle that could have been fun had it not been so exasperating.
Jul 2011
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Always Kabhi Kabhi
The first half promises a cat-and-mouse game, but, post interval, it fumbles to a denouement...
Jul 2011
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Always Kabhi Kabhi
Debutant Bejoy Nambiar, working with a plot that has traces of Anurag Kashyap's unreleased film Paanch, directs this thriller with a deftness of touch.
Jun 2011
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Ready
There are films that're so bad they turn out to be quite good—all for poking fun at. But this one is impossibly bad.
Jun 2011
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Ready
The first half is quite a laugh riot, but the narrative gets too scattered in the second.
May 2011