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Panga
What it lacks in depth or surprise, Panga's slice of life makes up for in its gentle depiction of everyday struggles and pleasantries, lending it a consistently warm fuzzy feeling.
Jan 2020
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Tanhaji
...has so much fun recreating a bygone legend and fictionalising history, authenticity and spellings, it gets infectious.
Jan 2020
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Bhangra Paa Le
It’s a fairly ambitious if unoriginal premise let down by staid vision, spiritless writing, middling choreography and music.
Jan 2020
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Sab Kushal Mangal
Kashyap's adept handling of the film in the first half and most of the second does not justify the manner in which the film ends.
Jan 2020
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Chhapaak
Meghna Gulzar documents Chhapaak's grim reality barefacedly without losing sight of its character's quiet determination to fight the reasons that make such heinous crimes possible in the first place.
Jan 2020
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Good Newwz
This is otherwise a lazily detailed, shabbily staged film, where an apartment seems chosen for the only reason that it can be lit well.
Dec 2019
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Dabangg 3
Lacking the calibre to create something fresh, the makers pick on the most popular attributes of the original -- the catchy dialogues, the quirky name by scribbling the sloppiest possible Chulbul Pandey origins that does little besides prolong the Dabangg 3 torture to nearly three hours long.
Dec 2019
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The Body
The film starts well with a fantastic post-interval twist, but it meanders for the most part. A thriller needs to be edgy or it will lose its grip and that holds true for The Body.
Dec 2019
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Mardaani 2
Between spoon feeding motives and relying on too many contrivances to provide Sunny an easy escape, Mardaani 2 loses on nuance.
Dec 2019
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Pati Patni Aur Woh
Alternating between a farce and melodrama, thankfully none of it coming from the women, Pati Patni Aur Woh can't decide whether it wants to be the climax of a Priyadarshan comedy or give the cad a dose of his own medicine brand of cheeky payback.
Dec 2019
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Panipat
...has all the meat for a political drama meets war movie. But in Gowariker's failure to process its complexity, the material never rises beyond a mediocre hurray to the Maratha manoos.
Dec 2019
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Yeh Saali Aashiqui
...I have to give it to Yeh Saali Aashiqui for showing such raging ambition and commitment to go bonkers all the way.
Nov 2019
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Nov 2019
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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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Nov 2019
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Bypass Road
No amount of thunder and lightning, cats and threats, conveniently forsaken homes to carry out a long-drawn-out clash between masked intruders and wheelchaired victims (something the recent Game Over did so well) can chart Bypass Road's bumpy course.
Nov 2019
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Motichoor Chaknachoor
If Nawaz hits all the right notes in his portraying his character's timid, modest traits, Athiya Shetty springs a surprise in how she completely surrenders to Anita's perverse superficiality. Wish one could say the same about the film's confused idealism and slipshod climax.
Nov 2019
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Marjaavaan
Nothing can salvage the Marjaavaan mess -- not religious symbols tattooed on Malhotra's knuckles, the two-and-a-half hours of hysterically hamming people, the boisterous background score, the stale imagination, the burly giants, the phony rain, the cheap blood, the microwave romance, the laboured hostility, the incessant babbling on mohabbat and ibadat, not Arjit Singh yowling in a loop.
Nov 2019
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Bala
Once again at the centre of an embarrassing problem, a nagging lie and potential heartbreak is Ayushmann Khurrana. And the actor channels everybody from SRK to Bobby Deol to Kamal Sadanah to play out a relevant issues of a real man and the idols we all create and emulate and fail to live up to.
Nov 2019
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Ujda Chaman
Too inept to portray premature balding effects on a man's self-esteem, Ujda Chaman accidentally exposes how desi parents put so much pressure on girls for marriage, they'll settle for any Tom, Dick or Chaman.
Nov 2019
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Housefull 4
...if you enjoy comedies that don’t make *any* sense, go ahead for this one.
Oct 2019
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Saand Ki Aankh
If your tolerance for such movies is high, if you think there's a particular sort of joy to be discovered in revisiting stereotypes you have already formed in your head, then dipping into Saand Ki Aankh wouldn't hurt you.
Oct 2019
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Made In China
Alternating between pedestrian comedy and overwrought drama, Made in China's biggest problem is its inclination to repeatedly digress, resulting in fleeting interest in its helter-skelter proceedings.
Oct 2019
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The Sky Is Pink
The lightness is uplifting without undermining the melancholy of the reality it's recounting through the eyes and spirit of a life cut short. The upshot is a pocketful of smiles, a whole lot of tears and an all-important reminder that the glass is half full.
Oct 2019
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War
It’s almost as though Anand was so pleased to have two perfectly suited actors on board, he decided he should leave it at that. What ensues is a large-scale mess only the hardnosed will notice while the rest of us are busy getting enamoured by Hrithik Roshan.
Oct 2019
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Prassthanam
Lack of hard-hitting sequences and a strong message makes the film falter.
Sep 2019