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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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Toh Baat Pakki
Tabu herself can't help being a good actress. But she clearly doesn't have the wherewithal to rescue a script this weak, loaded down with bad lines and a very weakly written character.
Feb 2010
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Youngistaan
...makes claims like Modi, implements policies like Rahul and has a persistent cough like Kejriwal, and I certainly wouldn’t vote for it.
Mar 2014
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Kaun Kitney Paani Mein
...the storytelling in Kaun Kitne Paani Mein uniformly starts out with much force but falls short of realising its potential.
Aug 2015
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Mittal v/s Mittal
There have been many films made on rape and sexual violence. Most of them hope that depiction of violence will help to titillate the audience. Mittal Vs Mittal also sets out with this objective but the audience is more likely to get repulsed than titillated.
Mar 2010
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Ekk Deewana Tha
...is the Hindi remake of Gautham Menon's Tamil film Vinnaithaandi Varuvaaya which was a huge commercial hit. Somewhere, something obviously got lost in translation.
Feb 2012
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Baadshaho
...Baadshaho's sluggish screenplay and humourless rhythm are spectacularly low on swagger and daredevilry as well.
Sep 2017
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Aiyaary
It's a bloated, prolonged mess of misplaced purpose that digresses from military misdeeds to animal cruelty.
Feb 2018
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Nov 2019
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Kismet Love Paisa Dilli
Here's hoping that director Sanjay Khanduri lets go of his obsession with last trains and metros moves on to make something different and entertaining.
Oct 2012
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Machine
...is not a film in the first place -- it is a 148-minute parody that ends up possessing your mental faculties.
Mar 2017
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Saaho
After nearly three excruciating hours of clueless chaos and random action between cops pretending to be crooks and crooks pretending to be cops, my spirit is clobbered and crippled. I still have no idea what I just saw.
Aug 2019
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Jodi Breakers
...could have been a good romance or a good comedy but it's neither. The film is seriously flawed.
Feb 2012
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Satyagraha
...one comes out with a feeling that Jha might have outsourced his job to somebody who was under no compulsion to do justice to his audience as well as to the film's superstar-cast.
Aug 2013
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Great Grand Masti
...is neither great nor grand, and it doesn't have any masti elements either.
Jul 2016
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Housefull
There is tacky, there is trashy and then there is a whole new depth of shamelessness...
Apr 2010
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Aazaan
The only reason MAY BE you can watch this film, is for this world tour and Alex Fisher's cinematography.
Oct 2011
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Jayanta Bhai Ki Luv Story
The problem with JKLS is that it ties not only the audience but also the actors of the film in a tight knot of which neither the plot nor performances, except Oberoi's, help to break out of.
Feb 2013
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Radhe
Prabhudeva's factory style film-making turns the South Korean crime drama, The Outlaws, of which Radhe is a remake, over its head and the upshot is a script botched up so badly it is entirely unrecognisable.
May 2021
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Jail
...formulaic, below average Bollywood headache, slowed down to lugubrious dullness.
Nov 2009
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Maximum
The idea of corrupt cops facing off against each other can be a fine one, but mired here in the midst of people saying things really really slowly, it loses its steam.
Jun 2012
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Nov 2012
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Oct 2011