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Yeh Saali Zindagi
Yup, it does get very complicated but what the hell, still the result is a pretty engrossing mind-teaser. Can’t leave your brains at home for this one.
Feb 2011
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Well Done Abba
...a must watch movie for the Midas touch of Shyam Benegal and the sheer mastery of Boman Irani.
Mar 2010
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We Are Family
...is an endurance test to sit through. It’s no longer all in the family – meaning warmth, love, sharing, caring - it's all about gross manipulation to coerce the audience to shed a tear or twenty.
Sep 2010
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Veer
The director does have a signature of sorts (hyper-commercial with a penchant for kitschy sets and sweeping outdoor locales). Here that is wasted on a period piece that has little else to hold it together but Salman Khan’s physique and hair extensions.
Jan 2010
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Udaan
There are choices involved in the telling of a story; and I felt the story-teller opted for the easier, more accessible ones. This correction could have lent more subtlety and depth to Vikramaditya Motwane’s otherwise accomplished film.
Jul 2010
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Tum Milo Toh Sahi
You’re glad you saw it for Dimple Kapadia and Nana Patekar. As it happens, the rest of the film doesn’t live up to their participation in the project.
Apr 2010
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Feb 2010
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The Japanese Wife
It stays with you. Although the tempo is excruciatingly slow and the screenplay repeats lines of dialogue as if they had been written by a squawking parrot, the result is limned with that near-extinct quality in cinema – humaneness.
Apr 2010
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The Great Indian Butterfly
...if you can imagine some well-written conversations that reflect a lot of our lives in a piece of cinema, and would like to see how it’s done well – go for it.
Apr 2010
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Tees Maar Khan
How you miss Farah Khan's feather-light touch. Here every point and joke is bludgeoned into you as if you were too dimwitted to catch the PJs. For heaven's sake, please don't treat the audience as toddling ninnies.
Dec 2010
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Striker
Arora’s effort does leave an impact but the wallop is not as strong as it could have been. A pity.
Feb 2010
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Rocket Singh
...has an assured air about itself and yet the form and content never quite seems to match.
Dec 2009
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Rocket Singh
...laboured, old-fashioned harangue about why honesty is the best policy...
Dec 2009
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Mar 2010
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Raavan
...the narrative is choppier than the monsoon sea, frequently disjointed, terribly repetitive...
Jun 2010
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Raat Gayi Baat Gayi
...raises many pertinent questions, some very uncomfortable ones too.
Jan 2010
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Pyaar Impossible
...would YRF decide to stop making attempts to revive Uday’s career with movies like this once in 4 years?
Jan 2010
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Prince
...get into the groove to enjoy the expected ridiculousness, and Prince for most of its running time doesn’t disappoint.
Apr 2010
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Phoonk 2
...doesn’t scare you out of your pantaloons. It merely employs some select words in the dialogue that could send you over the moon. Swoon.
Apr 2010
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Phas Gaye Re Obama
...like a breath of fresh air. This film is a good example of how an interesting premise, a credible closure, and, heads-on-your-shoulder approach to filmmaking results in a solid film that stands on its own two feet despite a low budget and no stars.
Dec 2010
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Peepli [Live]
For avoiding the route of fantasyland, for narrating a story hooked on fact rather than fiction, and for being remarkably observant about the quirks, anxieties and hopes of the BPL (those subsisting below the poverty line), Rizvi makes an auspicious debut as a director of substance.
Aug 2010
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Pankh
...is fiercely individualistic cinema. Those who support for edgy, mind-pubbing cinema, should check it out immediately…
Apr 2010
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Jul 2010
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No One Killed Jessica
...one helluva knockout of a movie, the sort which lingers in the heart and mind long after its 16 reels have ended on a note of hope and interiorised glory.
Jan 2011
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My Name is Khan
At the end of 18 reels, you do carry something precious home – SRK and Kajol. They are absolutely electric. Undoubtely, they don’t make’em like that anymore. And never will, which is why MNIK is absolutely compulsory viewing. You may have problems with it. Yet it is a must-must-see.
Feb 2010
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Love Sex Aur Dhokha
Dibakar Banerjee has delivered a third interesting and watchable film in a row.
Mar 2010