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Fanney Khan
Despite the presence of a heavy duty cast, the film is just not able to fly. So bogged down does it get with its predictable arc and overt sense of righteousness that it ends up flat and deadening; silly rather than scintillating.
Aug 2018
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Dabangg 2
If Abhinav Kashyap tried his best to keep things realistic before going all out loud and turning it into a spoof of a Rajni film, Arbaaz Khan, the director of Dabanng 2 has no pretensions of objectivity or sanity.
Dec 2012
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Mirzya
As in each of his films Mehra is not content with the usual, is highly ambitious with his craft but doesn’t quite hit the target here.
Oct 2016
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Maatr
...like one of the vigilante justice sagas of the 80s—old fashioned, rough, loud, over the top, and all about offering some kind of emotional catharsis through violence to the woman wronged, rather than any significant thoughts for us to ponder on.
Apr 2017
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Romeo Akbar Walter
Fashioned along the lines of the childish, old-fashioned B-grade Bollywood-Hollywood thrillers, RAW is all about the hidden transmitters and surveillance rooms and gratuitous third degree torture in ISI detention centres, laughable polygraph tests and sundry similar procedurals and investigations.
Apr 2019
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Teri Meri Kahaani
Long, laboured and pointless, Kohli fails to place his gorgeous actors in a credible story.
Jun 2012
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Parmanu
...has all the ingredients to be a propaganda film – from “desh ke liye shaheed (martyred for the nation)” dialogues to caricaturish portrayal of the enemy (American CIA and Pakistani ISI) to obscurantism and oversimplification of a complex mission.
May 2018
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Heroine
The only realistic thing here is that Bollywood is as predictable as a Bhandarkar film.
Sep 2012
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Rocky Handsome
An adaptation can always be done with one’s own distinct touch. But Rocky Handsome is happy and satisfied in living off borrowed aesthetics even while clinging to its Indian self for all the wrong reasons. It ends up being neither here nor there.
Mar 2016
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Shreelancer
All of it gets protracted, hallucinatory and pointless, the viewer’s connect with the growth, change and self-realisation in the character remain distant.
Aug 2017
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Padmaavat
...may well be Bhansali’s most sterile and insipid outing since Saawariya and Guzaarish. It manages to wear down and exhaust rather than engage.
Jan 2018
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Vishwaroop II
Add that to particularly tacky production design and uninspiring visuals, you realise that it’s easy for someone to mistake the first part as the newer film. By the end of Vishwaroopam 2, we’ve seen so many bombs being planted, only for them to be defused. What’s another 100 more?
Aug 2018
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The Fakir Of Venice
Released a decade after it was made The Fakir of Venice, disappoints with the lack of alchemy between the lead actors.
Feb 2019
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Saheb Biwi Aur Gangster Returns
Right from the title Saheb, Biwi Aur Gangster Returns, you can see the shameless effort to milk a cash cow with blatant disregard to whether it makes sense or not!
Mar 2013
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Yamla Pagla Deewana 2
Tries so hard to be funny that it makes you more sad than happy.
Jun 2013
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Rajdhani Express
Decent plot let down by a half-baked script, poor staging and a terrible lead in Leander Paes.
Jan 2013
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Amit Sahni Ki List
The soapy treatment makes it worth a wait for the film’s television premiere.
Jul 2014
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Shivaay
...the film turns out almost three hours long despite just a wisp of a story to tell.
Oct 2016
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Sarkar 3
It’s not just the predictability of RGV’s turgid formula that irks but the obviousness of one’s own response and the sheer weariness involved in describing the experience.
May 2017
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Baaghi 2
Nothing matters other than Tiger Shroff in a film that bores as well as amuses with its inanity.
Mar 2018
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Batti Gul Meter Chalu
The well-intentioned, cause-driven ‘Batti Gul Meter Chalu’ is more boring than engaging.
Sep 2018
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Albert Pinto Ko Gussa Kyun Aaata Hai?
The narrative meanders pointlessly, as a bizarre background score plays on noisily and the climax feels just as needlessly knotty. The film would have actually been better titled as Albert Pinto Ki Ajeeb Dastaan.
Apr 2019
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Nov 2014
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Satyameva Jayate
Director Milap Zaveri dishes out the same old vigilante justice cinema that we grew up watching in the 80s with a special doff of the hat to the classic Deewar (1975). But his added tadkas can’t hide the essential staleness of the concoction.
Aug 2018
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Chennai Express
By the end, the hollowness becomes too glaring to be covered by Shah Rukh’s presence or Deepika’s charm.
Aug 2013
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Crazy Cukkad Family
...apart from some acute observations and a few acerbic lines that highlight the increasing materialism in the society, the film fails to bring anything fresh to the table.
Jan 2015
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Boss
Yet another tribute to the escapist entertainers of yore? Ok then, this kind of lazy filmmaking deserves to be hit. With a scale.
Oct 2013
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All Is Well
...is the kind of film you want to show to that relative who assumes it’s easy to watch movies for a living.
Aug 2015
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Munna Michael
The makers may walk home with money, Shroff with more fame, but the audience will return with a message that you could get away anything as long as it is cloaked in song and dance.
Jul 2017