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Phillauri
Lal’s insistence to maintain room temperature humour and downplay a frothy premise robs Phillauri of fizz in its comedy.
Mar 2017
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The Zoya Factor
...the Dulquer factor is the only saving grace of this bland confection. His charisma and cricket are up to the mark.
Sep 2019
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Red Alert
Red Alert's tragic flaw is the over-simplified resolution of strife that is as old as our nation itself.
Jul 2010
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Fever
Our desi writers really need to work hard on their scripts. The story here seems too convoluted.
Aug 2016
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Mar 2018
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The Accidental Prime Minister
While it may not be an out-and-out hit job on the Gandhi family, the movie is all about one aspect of Baru's book: How Dr Singh struggled with the family and the party all through his prime ministership.
Jan 2019
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De De Pyaar De
...is full of recycled imagery. It's not a copy, but a lot of its thoughts are dumbed down versions of what you enjoy about similarly themed It's Complicated. Or even Friends.
May 2019
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Will You Marry Me?
...follows the oft-trodden path of ingenuous sex comedies but fails.
Mar 2012
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The Shaukeens
Whenever Akshay appears on screen, The Shaukeens transforms into another movie -- one that's substantially more comic, cheeky and winsome -- it's the one I enjoyed the most, it's the one I wished I had come to see.
Nov 2014
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Traffic
...doesn’t address its ethics or anything profound. It doesn’t aspire to be anything beyond a bumpy ride to half-hearted glory. And in that it is entirely successful.
May 2016
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Shab
...Onir documents the most intimate facets of his characters lives with confounding distance. Blame it on the sloppy screenplay and flimsy characterisation, but not a single character elicits any sort of emotional response -- good or bad.
Jul 2017
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Tuesdays & Fridays
...if only the film had ample romantic moments in there to make the heart beat faster, Tuesdays & Fridays could have made for a better watch.
Feb 2021
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Damadamm
This is Himesh Reshammiya's fifth attempt at acting, and with a better actor, Swapna Waghmare Joshi's film could have been a far superior product.
Nov 2011
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Fatso
...the film squanders the most potentially thrilling aspects of the idea and leaves us with something half-baked.
May 2012
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Ghanchakkar
...builds up and builds up and builds up magnificently before collapsing in a bloody silly heap.
Jun 2013
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Bombay Velvet
...runs out of breath less than halfway through, and huffs and puffs as it tries to breast the finish line.
May 2015
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Poorna
This movie is a perfect example of a city-bred director scanning our heartlands, and instead of taking in all the complexity, all the denseness, stopping to ask himself, "What are the corrections I can highlight in these lives, and how do I stitch together a narrative around these corrections?"
Mar 2017
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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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Rowdy Rathore
It can hardly be called a film, but ah well. Watch it if only to remind yourself of old Khiladi flicks...
Jun 2012
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Luv U Soniyo
...you may like Luv U Soniyo more for its comedy than the romance. It’s all very predictable and sort of lame in some areas.
Jul 2013
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Jul 2015
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Stree
Not only are the concerns expressed in Stree (patriarchy, consent, prejudice against women) mere excuses to touch our 'sentimental hotspots', the movie itself is a few tricks cobbled together.
Aug 2018
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Why Cheat India
A jumbo mess of warped notions and random ambition, Why Cheat India trivialises education and shows sympathy for deceit. Why indeed?
Jan 2019
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Yamla Pagla Deewana
...the film's second half does rustle up a few scenes of momentum, but this is a nearly three-hour film and we all deserve better. As do the Deols.
Jan 2011