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Paltan
...Dutta's clownish treatment of history and hard-earned triumph demeans the efforts and sacrifices of real-life martyrs and bravehearts with its pompous ideas of valour, clunky writing and a cadre of lacklustre actors.
Sep 2018
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Pal Pal Dil Ke Paas
...deviates from its simpler instincts and surrenders to tired Bollywood tropes like foul games of politically influential families and the constant reiteration for Ma ka pyaar and prayer.
Sep 2019
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Pagglait
...witty, moving and mild-mannered movie about self-realisation, the end of one journey becomes the beginning of another against the backdrop of a family's disquiet and disputes.
Mar 2021
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Pagalpanti
...Pagalpanti's script is stuff of pre-schooler dreams. The performances, too, are better suited for a school play.
Nov 2019
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Pad Man
...dramatises his reality to accomodate romance and distinction with a calculation that is one of the weakest aspects of an otherwise constructive narrative.
Feb 2018
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Padmaavat
As the film progresses, you tire of the been-there seen-that spectacle. You want a story. You want good dialogue, not the corny words you are hearing. You want an emotional connect. You want a tighter film. Sadly, with Padmaavat, that's not what you get.
Jan 2018
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Paathshaala
Everything about the film is one-dimensional. The school itself is a set and looks like a cardboard cut-out. The characters are all good or all bad; there are no shades of grey.
Apr 2010
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Paa
...celebrates the purest phase of an individual with such touching simplicity; it's impossible to remain unmoved.
Dec 2009
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One Night Stand
...for all its noble feminist intent -- ends up balancing a 'hard-hitting' Sunny Leone soliloquy back to back with a skimpy Sunny Leone item song. Sigh.
May 2016
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One By Two
Abhay Deol shoots himself in the foot by acting in (and, inexplicably, producing) this monstrosity that sucks all the goodwill out of an actor we usually like, and his apparent girlfriend Preeti Desai hands in the kind of atrocious performance that makes vintage Katrina look like Juhi Chawla.
Jan 2014
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Once Upon A Time In Mumbai Dobaara
What is most upsetting is how the vital lines flounder the most: unrelated inanities pop up throughout, but it is when the script actually demands a line with some heft that there is none to be found.
Aug 2013
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OMG Oh My God!
...a brave and absorbing blend of satire, fable and fantasy that brings our attention to the misuse and commercialisation of religion.
Sep 2012
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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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Ok Jaanu
...cannot shrug off the identity of a remake. It’s like two people who’ve watched the original consciously recreating it for an audience unfamiliar to the original.
Jan 2017
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O Teri
...borrows constantly from Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro and drowns it all in slapstick so noisy it all comes off as more lame than loving, more blasphemous than beholden.
Mar 2014
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Notebook
Sadly, Notebook's more introspective and humane aspects remain confined to the backdrop to accommodate a lacklustre romance.
Mar 2019
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Not A Love Story
All Ramu seems to be saying is 'look at me,' and we've seen most of that before. This is a film made in bad taste, and -- with apologies to Mr Capote -- in old blood.
Aug 2011
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Apr 2017
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No Problem
...wish that a film, given its conscience-awakening plot, was more hard-hitting!
Jan 2011
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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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Mar 2015
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Newton
The picture wants you to craft change, but it first wants you to give up on your fantasies of quick and easy change.
Sep 2017
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Neighbours
...directed by Shyam Ramsay in a bid to bring back that infamous surname, is awful.
Mar 2014
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Feb 2016
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Neerja
Madhvani paces the film masterfully, making for a highstrung but justifiably emotional narrative.
Feb 2016
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Nasha
The ‘erotic’ love story belongs to the film’s teeny boppers, especially Sahil, whose innocence, infatuation and vulnerability keeps you glued to your seat for the two hours it lasts.
Jul 2013