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Global Baba
...a biting recreation of the world of god men, perfectly well-timed considering the goings-on around us these days.
Mar 2016
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My Birthday Song
Some spit and polish and this could have been a rare good Hindi thriller.
Jan 2018
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Mar 2020
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10ml Love
The film makes up for all its limitations with a lot of fun and its crisp 90-minute length.
Dec 2012
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Bhaag Milkha Bhaag
Farhan’s terrific, the film melodramatic, mostly good but should have been rightly called ‘Chal Milkha Bahut Time Hai’ given its slow, indulgent pace.
Jul 2013
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Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhania
For a large part it comes across as a pleasant reworking, if not subverting, of the mother of all Hindi romantic comedies.
Jul 2014
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Bhopal: A Prayer For Rain
Kumar’s approach is neutral as he recreates the sensory experience of that ill-fated night. Unlike Carbide he doesn’t devalue death.
Dec 2014
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3 Storeys
Intrigue, trickery, unpredictability and a sting in the tail. Yet this compendium of stories refuses to fly.
Mar 2018
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Mar 2014
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Airlift
...would have been a better film without this nationalistic bluster but has a bigger potential at the box office now with the Republic Day just round the corner.
Jan 2016
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Tanhaji
Little then to get excited about yet another Hindi film that aims to make Indians proud of who we are by taking us back to the past, right to the end of the 17th century, when we used to be the “sone ki chidiya”, till “baahari taaqat” (the foreign invaders) came and split us apart.
Jan 2020
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Ekkees Toppon Ki Salaami
If you are willing to suspend disbelief for the outrageous second half after a realistic first, you might just dig this heart warming ode to the common man.
Oct 2014
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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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Sep 2018
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The Attacks Of 26/11
...is probably the most definitive modern Ram Gopal Varma film. It’s the epitome of inconsistency.Of crassness. Of insensitivity. Of horror. Of atheism. Of audacity. Of voyeurism.
Mar 2013
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Mary Kom
Priyanka Chopra rises above a generic script, predictable treatment and an extremely manipulative narrative.
Sep 2014
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Mom
Three months ago, we saw Raveena Tandon trudge the same course in Maatr. The shadow of that film hangs too heavy on Mom. Not only are the titles similar, the films themselves seem like identical twins, with Mom turning out to be the relatively better made of the two. But, only slightly so.
Jul 2017
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Tumhari Sulu
The story of a homemaker turned night time RJ is full of interesting possibilities but gets stuck in the familiar conflict zone between career and family.
Nov 2017
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London Paris New York
...makes for a great date as you get a quick walking tour of the cities (cinematography by Sameer Arya), all for the price of a movie ticket and you'll be back in less than 100 minutes.
Mar 2012
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Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani
An understated romance that takes ages to unfold but rich in detail.
Jun 2013
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Happy New Year
...could steal your heart if you don’t use your head. When you wake up the next morning, you probably won’t remember much. Except that you laughed out loud a few times for some strange reason.
Oct 2014
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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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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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Table No. 21
Can't say if you will like what Table No. 21 leaves you with but while you are at it, you are likely to have a good time.
Jan 2013
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Simran
What’s interesting is that her Praful is never built as a role model. The filmmaker remains non-judgmental about her; the audience doesn’t know what to make of her. I found that strangely liberating: an on-screen woman you can’t pin down or put in a straightjacket; for a change.
Sep 2017
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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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Main Tera Hero
Varun Dhawan is a star who shines and rises above the mediocrity of the material and he makes most of Main Tera Hero almost watchable.
Apr 2014
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Gour Hari Dastaan
It is kind of film that quietly cleanses the dust that has collected on our idea of freedom. What we are, what we have become.
Aug 2015
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Sultan
Wish there was more time and complexity given to Aarfa and her relationship with Sultan. You can sense the gloomy, bleak, problematic layers in it but the film refuses plumb the depths of it. Then it wouldn’t have remained a bhai film.
Jul 2016
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Oct 2015