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Housefull 4
...hurtles south with such a clarity of purpose and desperate urgency that you can review it with just “eye roll” gifs than go hunting for suitable words.
Oct 2019
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Made In China
...is an utterly confused film. It is unsure about what it wants to focus on and achieve.
Oct 2019
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Saand Ki Aankh
...the bad prosthetics do irk and irritate at the start, but slowly you begin to overlook the cakey make-up on the faces of Pednekar and Pannu and begin warming up to the place, its people, stories, struggles and, most of all, a matter-of-fact rustic sense of humour.
Oct 2019
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Laal Kaptaan
...had the makings of an unusual new genre; a barbaric, brutal, surreal, picaresque fantasy. Unfortunately, it is unable to pull it off.
Oct 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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War
Despite there being nothing new and everything predictable about it, War is slick and smart and keeps the audience engaged and absorbed.
Oct 2019
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The Zoya Factor
Despite the film being a rickety ride and Dulquer Salmaan not being utilised to his best potential, the Malayalam star still ends up playing the most rounded role of the lot.
Sep 2019
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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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Section 375
The film not only provides validation to all those dismissing sexual harassment cases as having ulterior motives but also does great disservice to women, who have only recently had the courage to risk social stigma and share their stories with the world.
Sep 2019
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Batla House
A needlessly convoluted and garbled interpretation of the Batla House encounter case which sides with the cops.
Aug 2019
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Mission Mangal
With the nation’s conscience keeper Akshay Kumar at the helm and Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s speech featured in a special appearance, the idea behind Mission Mangal quite clearly is to ignite our supposedly latent nationalism.
Aug 2019
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Jabariya Jodi
The redemption then for Jabariya Jodi is fleeting and in spurts. Thanks to a cracking supporting cast, the film isn’t entirely an oppressive watch.
Aug 2019
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Khandaani Shafakhana
...may have a laudable message at its core, but gets bogged down by it’s own overly righteous attempt to “educate” — that sex is not gandi baat, ashleel aur aapattijanak (bad thing, obscene and unacceptable), nothing to be shameful about.
Aug 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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Jhootha Kahin Ka
...Kang can’t stop the humour turning loud and crass with double entendre slipping in, specially when it comes to women. It’s not just the sexist jokes, here the women are rendered deliberately vapid and inconsequential...
Jul 2019
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Super 30
A salutary cause and an inspirational story about the triumph of the underdog doesn’t necessarily make an engaging film.
Jul 2019
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One Day
...everyone, from the actors to the audience, is left either direly bored or unintentionally amused.
Jul 2019
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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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Kabir Singh
Entitled, toxic hero and a heroine without any agency whatsoever. What’s new?
Jun 2019
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Jun 2019
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India‘s Most Wanted
If the argument is in favour of providing a thrilling experience, the film doesn’t deliver in that department either. There is restraint and there’s boredom — this one falls under the latter.
May 2019
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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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Student Of The Year 2
Despite the fresh, young faces at the centre, a staleness looms large over SOTY2.
May 2019
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Setters
Chaudhary gets the milieu, lingo and the social nuances and hierarchies right and has a fabulous ensemble of actors, some in smaller roles, but the film doesn’t hit a high note.
May 2019
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May 2019
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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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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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No Fathers In Kashmir
Kumar comes with a solid background in documentary filmmaking and has sound grounding in the politics of the State (Inshallah, Football and Inshallah, Kashmir), the reason one would have expected a far more searing and incisive account in the film than what one eventually gets to watch.
Apr 2019
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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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Junglee
There is a sweet stray dog and magnificent tuskers and an unintended nostalgia unleashed for Haathi Mere Saathi. I came out raving about Kulkarni's fitness and agility and Jammwal’s voice and jawline. But that wasn’t quite the point of the film, was it?
Mar 2019