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Bajirao Mastani
Sanjay Leela Bhansali returns with another visual spectacle that wilfully takes liberties with the past that it depicts. But it does manage to engage even as it exhausts.
Dec 2015
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Bajatey Raho
...is like that song on the radio that you have heard a few times before but don't mind only because it’s better than the songs playing on other stations.
Jul 2013
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Bahubali
Known for thinking out of the box in the mainstream space, here again Rajamouli rises above the generic conventions.
Jul 2015
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Badrinath Ki Dulhania
...Khaitan, is careful in gently nudging the societal system than daring to go radically against it – in short he doesn’t believe in upsetting the applecart.
Mar 2017
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Badlapur
An edge-of-the-seat pulpy entertainer that manages to turn the revenge formula on its head.
Feb 2015
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Jan 2015
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Babumoshai Bandookbaaz
...it all eventually boils down to yet another bloody revenge drama, in perpetuity at that. In the midst of several characters and strands the film loses an essential sense of cohesion.
Aug 2017
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Baar Baar Dekho
There are no standout performances, no scenes that can pack in an emotional wallop and the conversational dialogue turns banal beyond a point.
Sep 2016
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Baaghi 3
There is a phrase in Hindi: dimaag ka dahi, the curdling of brain. That’s what the film does to your mind, leaves you all woolly-headed.
Mar 2020
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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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Sep 2017
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Azhar
Such is the eagerness to justify him that Tony D’Souza makes it seem as though the whole bad world is out to get him.
May 2016
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Aurangzeb
If you want your rich masala fare sans the unnecessary garnishing, Aurangzeb is worth paying a visit!
May 2013
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Article 15
Sinha lays the onus of the societal transformation on the privileged. They have to alter the lopsided canvas.
Jun 2019
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Arjun Patiala
...feels like a Punjabi film masquerading as a Bollywood one. The humour is deliberately rough and rustic and the filmmaking clunky.
Jul 2019
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Jun 2013
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Angrezi Mein Kehte Hain
The subject could have been relatable to a wide Indian audience who are bound in an arranged marriage, but Mishra is neither convincingly awkward as a repentant husband nor staunchly belligerent as a patriarchal one.
May 2018
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Andhadhun
Missing the beginning, end and anything in the middle would then severely imperil what could be the most fun you’d have at the movies.
Oct 2018
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Anaarkali Of Aarah
A unique, well observed, raunchy musical that reiterates that no means no.
Mar 2017
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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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Alone
Bipasha Basu, however, has become the Bhai of the horror film genre, minus the box office appeal, of course. You can easily switch scenes between her films and nobody would even know. They all have Bipasha doing exactly the same thing.
Jan 2015
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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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Feb 2016
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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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AK vs AK
...is structured as a “serious” film and a black comedy. It is the film’s supposed serious moments — with real actors — that are the weakest. But its comedic portions are, for the most part, a riot
Dec 2020
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Ajji
The only thing new here then is turning an arthritic grandmom into the avenging angel. Ajji is no more than Mom and Maatr at their most excessive; it just locates the same rape narrative at the other end of the social spectrum.
Nov 2017
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Aiyyaa
Wake up-um, makers... and smell the oothappam. This is not a plot-um that lends itself to be watched for this long-um.
Oct 2012
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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