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Apr 2015
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Feb 2018
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Hum Chaar
Despite the millennial setting and characters, Hum Chaar feels oddly anachronistic.
Feb 2019
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The Sky Is Pink
It’s such a pity that the film has a powerful true story as its source material, yet its sole obsession is to make you either laugh or cry. The Sky Is Pink is perhaps better off titled, ‘Sometimes Happy Sometimes Sad’.
Oct 2019
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Saina
To be fair to Amole Gupte, the problem partly lies in how reductive the blueprint for a sports drama has been made by filmmakers, who seem to succumb to the temptations of the trappings that come with the genre.
Mar 2021
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Matru Ki Bijlee Ka Mandola
...a film that’s clearly having fun, spouting philosophy for a bit, revelling in its energetic singing and uninhibited dancing, sometimes brooding and sometimes talking gibberish. While it’s fun, can’t say it’s consistently funny. Because this is a moody drunkard of a film.
Jan 2013
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ABCD - Any Body Can Dance - 2
Remo has invested his whole cinematic vocabulary on dance and is left with only ABCD when it comes to the emotional choreography.
Jun 2015
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Meri Pyaari Bindu
A lot more charm was needed here but dullness, unfortunately, is all we get.
May 2017
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Beyond The Clouds
Majid Majidi tries to combine his minimalistic approach with Bollywoodian melodrama with disappointing results.
Apr 2018
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Kalank
You could say that I am being overly righteous and needlessly cautious here but the climax left me discomfited and disturbed.
Apr 2019
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Ab Tak Chhappan 2
Nana is as explosive as ever but the recycled script refuses to trigger any emotions.
Feb 2015
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Fitoor
...wants desperately to be a grand, epic romance but depends way too much on its stunning Kashmir canvas to achieve that than characters and story that you can empathise with.
Feb 2016
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Simmba
Be it as brutal violators or patronising saviours of women, Simmba shows that it all boils down to the same toxic masculinity which the men behind Simmba have been perpetuating film after film. There is a saying in Hindi: “Sau choohe khake billi haj ko chali (After eating a hundred rats the cat goes on a pilgrimage)”. Need I say more?
Dec 2018
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Aiyaary
What could have been an engaging tale of army corruption ends up a convoluted film with confusing narrative devices.
Feb 2018
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Kick
Bhaisexuals can watch it for kicks, the rest of us are going to come out feeling the pain.
Jul 2014
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Miss Tanakpur Haazir Ho
...Kapri, who comes from a journalistic background, has picked from rich sources, but he has not been able to weave the influences into a cogent whole.
Jun 2015
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Dilwale
The deliberate attempt to repackage and sell the Kajol-SRK romance of yore backfires, seeming like a pale shadow of the magic there once was.
Dec 2015
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Nov 2016
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Hindi Medium
Despite a promising funny start, Hindi Medium eventually dwindles into an absurd progression of preachings.
May 2017
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Phantom
On the surface the way Kabir and his writers build up the narrative is dull and tedious and with no humour to spice up the mood, the spy games fail to spur the imagination.
Aug 2015
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Fukrey Returns
The quirky characters and their oddball humour is again the mainstay even as the thin plot gets stretched to its utmost limits. You want the things to come to a closure fast even as they drag on and on with one laboured situation piling atop another.
Dec 2017
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Shikara
Containing the narrative to a ‘human and personal’ experience, the filmmaker buries politics under the garb of ‘love and hope’
Feb 2020
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Phillauri
Even the ghosts are sporting a tinge of nationalism in Bollywood films these days.
Mar 2017
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Entertainment
After showing traces of wicked humour, it is reduced to nothing more than a rich source of PJs.
Aug 2014
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I
Shankar disappoints this time by mounting an entertainer whose body and heart are not in sync.
Jan 2015
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Force 2
...Abhinay Deo doesn’t want us to put the thinking cap on. He just wants to please us with long chases and car crashes, bullets and blood, the views of Chain Bridge and Hero’s Square in Budapest.
Nov 2016
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Judwaa 2
Dhawan updates the original with some new, contemporary, international scenery but fails to update the attitude for today’s times.
Sep 2017
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Dirty Politics
...very bit of this film — story, structure, sensibility, stunts and moral — is from an eighties film.
Mar 2015
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Traffic
...wears thin, feels rushed. There is neither much of an emotional tug nor an edge-of-the-seat urgency that the film promised to deliver.
May 2016
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Yeh Khula Aasmaan
The film unwinds at a lazy, sluggish pace which in itself wouldn't have been such a bad thing if it did create genuinely heart-warming moments without relying on melodrama or a sentimental overdose.
May 2012