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Mar 2013
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Mar 2012
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Citylights
If you have watched the original try it to see how Manila could easily be Mumbai and if you haven’t, go get illuminated about the ground realities beneath your feet.
May 2014
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Hasee Toh Phasee
...the fine little details, the quips and the quirks and the twist to the cliché make it a fairly watchable film.
Feb 2014
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Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhania
What’s commendable here is that Khaitan knows he is dealing with a film we all love and makes up for the borrowing by adding a lot of witty touches and subtly changing everything that doesn’t work today.
Jul 2014
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PK
If you’ve been thirsting for movie magic, there is so much to love about PK, especially in the fun-filled setup of a first half — one so exciting that you are most likely to forgive what doesn’t quite work in the second.
Dec 2014
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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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Pizza
After a long time, we have a horror film that is not bursting with cheese or sleaze.
Jul 2014
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May 2016
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Panga
Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari directorial is about how love, marriage and children need not come in the way of a sportswoman’s success, but what sets it refreshingly apart is a wonderful sense of humour.
Jan 2020
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Mar 2012
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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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Hamari Adhuri Kahani
It is an old school romance with all the garnishing of poetic dialogues and moral moorings and the good thing is the pain seeps through the surface of this modern-day fable.
Jun 2015
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Newton
It’s a short, straightforward and simple film but far from simplistic. Director Amit Masurkar uses humour to make his point than get all moralistic, being quietly effective rather than shrill.
Sep 2017
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Apr 2014
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Haraamkhor
A distanced view of a taboo relationship goes off the rails in search of a neat resolution.
Jan 2017
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Fukrey
...may not be laugh-out-loud funny as Delhi Belly, but the charming subtleties, detail to character and credibility of milieu makes it one hell of a ride.
Jun 2013
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Trapped
With him the film takes the audience to the edge of the seat and also makes it face its own weaknesses and resourcefulness in crises.
Mar 2017
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Sniff
The one complaint I had with Gupte’s previous outing, Stanley Ka Dabba, was that, like so many of our children’s films, it came with a message attached. Sniff is not weighed down by that. It’s the reason why I am happy with it, but many a righteous adult might end up considering it simplistic and slight.
Aug 2017
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Pati Patni Aur Woh
The film starts off quick and fast, drops pace in the middle to again pick up speed later.
Dec 2019
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The Shaukeens
While the main plot is a bit of a downer, the unexpected laughs from Akshay Kumar more than make it worth your time.
Nov 2014
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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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Inkaar
You can’t ignore Inkaar for its sheer topicality and its courage to look a problem in the eye though the director goes into blink mode half way through the film.
Jan 2013
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TE3N
The situation is interesting but the process of investigation, the clues, their piecing together doesn’t set one’s grey cells working.
Jun 2016
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Sanju
Ultimately, the film is not as much about the flaws in the hero as about him being wronged by the media which is yet a convenient villain.
Jun 2018
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Uri
At times I found myself standing clear of my own political biases to acknowledge his engaging craft. At other moments, I broke away from the film’s emotional sway to question its politics.
Jan 2019
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Rang Rasiya
Engaging in parts, the lack of material on the subject and the contemporary relevance of the points it raises makes us ignore the flaws in storytelling.
Nov 2014
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Sonu Ke Titu Ki Sweety
It was in 2011 that Ranjan first came out with a “male perspective” on the man-woman relationship in a middle class, urban scenario in Pyaar Ka Punchnama. It reached out to many. Would SKTKS now become the Bible for an entire generation of young men? Seems so.
Feb 2018
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Stree
Between scares, laughs and trying to be feminist, the film does tend to get unwieldy and spreads itself too thin. The three elements play out inconsistently. But on the good side, as in some of the recent Bollywood films, Stree has a quaint sense of place, eccentric characters, a few madcap sequences and some sharply written, consciously irreverent lines to keep one engaged.
Aug 2018