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Filmistaan
...is packed with great background scores, unfaltering narration and stellar performances.
Jun 2014
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Jan 2014
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The Lunchbox
It is a film of multiple pleasures -- small ones and overwhelming ones and exquisitely crafted ones -- layered one on top of the other, with something for everyone, and so, so much for the cinematic glutton.
Sep 2013
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Love Sex Aur Dhokha
Dibakar Banerjee has taken that much-nudged envelope, ripped it apart, and mailed out a magnificently tawdry postcard. He's made a film which lets Hindi cinema sit back, take a deep glug of adulthood, and wipe Haywards 5000 foam from its 'stache as it leers at the girl in stockings. Bollywood has just grown up the only way it could...
Mar 2010
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Lootera
...a gorgeous, gorgeous film, one that uses its period setting affectionately, with loving detail, and not exploitatively, as our cinema is wont to do.
Jul 2013
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May 2011
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Haider
...a knockout, a film that makes you smell corpses, that makes you shudder with melancholia, and a film that points accusing fingers. A film that doesn't flinch.
Oct 2014
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Pink
This is a solid, terse film that makes its points in mainstream fashion with an appropriate lack of subtlety. Pink is a barnstormer -- and it doesn't pull its punches.
Sep 2016
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Omerta
...is a work of true moral force; it is, at the risk of sounding fancy, a motion picture for our times.
May 2018
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Oct 2018
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Ugly
...a constantly riveting, ticking timebomb of a film -- is by far Kashyap’s finest film.
Dec 2014
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Dec 2016
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No Fathers In Kashmir
The story poignantly sums up the day-to-day struggles of life in the Kashmir valley, especially of those whose sons, husbands and fathers have disappeared.
Apr 2019
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Sep 2014
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Oct 2012
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Trapped
Audaciously enough, Motwane feeds off the negativity of disastrous coincidences to explore a human being’s most profound fears as well as marvel at his dormant instincts.
Mar 2017
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Dear Zindagi
...is a lovely picture, made with finesse and heart, and one that not only takes some stigma off the idea of seeking therapy, but -- in the most natural of ways -- goes a long way in making a viewer think of the people who matter most.
Nov 2016
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Thappad
A spectacular Taapsee Pannu brings out the shift of a happy homemaker to a heartbroken woman most strikingly in her deeply affecting performance.
Feb 2020
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Bbuddah...Hoga Terra Baap
...not a particularly well-crafted film but none of that matters as Amitabh Bachchan makes it work.
Jul 2011
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Matru Ki Bijlee Ka Mandola
And no matter the slight niggles: this is a film that goes far out on a limb, and gives us both bedlam and nuances, enough to warrant repeated viewings. And more than enough to love.
Jan 2013
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Sulemani Keeda
Finally an unpretentious indie, Sulemani Keeda, simply put, is by the filmis, of the filmis, and for everyone.
Dec 2014
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Gurgaon
Director Shanker Raman, with an appetite for noir and a natural temperament for fast-cutting, takes you so swiftly and so deeply inside Gurgaon's anomie that you may mistake his vision of the city for some dystopian view of the future.
Aug 2017
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Mar 2015
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Kai Po Che!
I wouldn’t call Kai Po Che an exact retelling of Chetan Bhagat [ Images ]’s The 3 Mistakes of My Life. Kapoor clearly recognises the strengths (and limitations) of this story as a motion picture and labours to compound an emotionality worth rooting for even if it means significant departure from the source. It’s a beautiful risk. And it totally works.
Feb 2013