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Jun 2014
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Ek Tha Tiger
...surprisingly director Kabir Khan has come up with a new recipe for the current Tiger of the box office. Kabir wants to put his stamp without stamping on Salman’s toes.
Aug 2012
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Ek Paheli Leela
Bobby Khan has conjured up a long music video album with a story line whose depth fails to compete against Sunny’s cleavage.
Apr 2015
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Ek Main Aur Ekk Tu
A new beginning for Hindi cinema except that every other scene is inspired by another film.
Feb 2012
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Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga
...might be bringing a “new story” to Bollywood but plays out too flat, lightweight and facile to be of any consequence. Tell us another love story, please.
Feb 2019
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Dum Laga Ke Haisha
A welcome reminder of simple joys and sorrows of life, watch it with somebody you love.
Feb 2015
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Drishyam
Copy it is, but a diminished one for a lot has been lost in translation and one of them is the social connection with the characters, which is the hallmark of the original.
Jul 2015
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Dream Girl
Ayushmann Khurrana’s knack for social satire is marred by a script and aesthetics more suitable for television than cinema
Sep 2019
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Dolly Ki Doli
It seems like a rooted, subversive tale has been watered down to suit Sonam Kapoor’s urbane image targeted at teenagers.
Jan 2015
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Dobaara
What you get in the process is very few chills and thrills but a lot of convoluted, half baked, jargon-ridden arguments that don’t add up to anything but boredom.
Jun 2017
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Dishoom
The many chinks in Dishoom’s armour notwithstanding, on this prolonged, dismal monsoon day the film’s infectious cheer seems just what the weather ordered. Whether it lasts beyond the season will be another story.
Jul 2016
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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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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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Dil Juunglee
...is not a film; it’s a bunch of the most vapid characters conceivable, hanging loose, doing some monkey tricks and playing “Audience audience in the hall, who is the most irritating of us all”.
Mar 2018
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Dil Dhadakne Do
...the core of a Rajshri family drama with layers of stylish froth in the form of a lavish cruise ride.
Jun 2015
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Dharam Sankat Mein
Humorous in parts, the film tries too hard to strike home the point.
Apr 2015
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Dhanak
...one stayed invested and smiled along only because of the adorable actors with Bollywood references adding to the cute appeal. But it needed a lot else.
Jun 2016
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Dhadak
Universally, teenage love is rebellious, radical and effective because of its tenderness. That sense of fragility is missing in Dhadak’s narrative. Instead, there’s a feeling of artificiality to their romance...
Jul 2018
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Detective Byomkesh Bakshy!
A stylish noir adventure soaked in surprise and substance in equal measure.
Apr 2015
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Desi Kattey
A hollow attempt to mash-up crime and sports, Desi Kattey misses the target by a margin.
Sep 2014
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Department
It's high time the filmmaker struggling with form realised that this nauseatingly gimmicky camerawork he has been afflicted with in his last few films distracts from the story.
May 2012
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Aug 2012
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Dedh Ishqiya
...is that rare kind of film that borrows from the Westerns, as much as it does from Indian cinema and even Urdu literature. It’s a curious mix — the best of the West and the East, the old and the new, the classy and the cheap — done seamlessly and effortlessly.
Jan 2014
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Dear Zindagi
At one level then film feels like a mass therapy session in which the audience could find itself getting co-opted and put on the couch. The reaction to it then would be dependant on an individual’s own life experiences.
Nov 2016
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Dear Dad
...Arvind Swamy’s pleasing presence and earnest effort notwithstanding. Whatever is there to the plot is too shallow to keep it afloat for even 90 odd minutes.
May 2016
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De De Pyaar De
The film’s craft adds to its staleness and anachronistic feel. As much as the film wants to be an iconoclast, it reinstates the same conservatism it pretends to take down.
May 2019
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Dangerous Ishhq
So long that a ticket to purgatory hell seems like the better bargain between the two.
May 2012
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Dangal
Even as the film touches a chord, it makes one compare and contrast it with other Indian sports films, and not glowingly at that.
Dec 2016
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Daddy
...falls in the shadow; adrift and astray, mislaid between what would have been aimed on paper, in the script, and what eventually plays out on the screen.
Sep 2017