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Hanuman Da Damdaar
...is disappointing in not setting new standards for children’s entertainment.
Jun 2017
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May 2017
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Hindi Medium
Despite a promising funny start, Hindi Medium eventually dwindles into an absurd progression of preachings.
May 2017
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Meri Pyaari Bindu
A lot more charm was needed here but dullness, unfortunately, is all we get.
May 2017
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Sarkar 3
It’s not just the predictability of RGV’s turgid formula that irks but the obviousness of one’s own response and the sheer weariness involved in describing the experience.
May 2017
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Maatr
...like one of the vigilante justice sagas of the 80s—old fashioned, rough, loud, over the top, and all about offering some kind of emotional catharsis through violence to the woman wronged, rather than any significant thoughts for us to ponder on.
Apr 2017
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Noor
Patronising as it may sound the film should have remained about Noor and her relationships alone. It’s when Noor’s professional side comes to fore that things start to crumble.
Apr 2017
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Begum Jaan
...is shrill, shouts at the viewer in every frame. No wonder even perfectly fine actors end up overdoing things.
Apr 2017
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Mukti Bhawan
It’s all about death yet a steady strain of humour makes the film whimsical than morbid. Like life there is no clear compartmentalisation between pleasure and pain, happiness and grief, celebration and mourning.
Apr 2017
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Naam Shabana
The film might appear radical enough to show a woman fight her way past the men but at the heart of things rests a very male, big boy world-view.
Mar 2017
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Poorna
Despite the low budget Poorna does a fair, if not extraordinary, job of bringing mountaineering on to the big screen.
Mar 2017
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Phillauri
Even the ghosts are sporting a tinge of nationalism in Bollywood films these days.
Mar 2017
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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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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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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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Commando 2
...is an action film that decides to wear another mask; of topicality, social consciousness and patriotism, all for the heck of it. In the process the film loses its own identity entirely.
Mar 2017
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Rangoon
...is an ambitious but overblown, overlong jumble because Bhardwaj decides to take on too many strands. And he doesn’t knit them well as a whole.
Feb 2017
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Feb 2017
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The Ghazi Attack
It’s a straightforward, chronological, well-acted and intermittently engaging watch...
Feb 2017
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Jolly LLB 2
What Jolly LLB 2 essentially shows is how the marriage of opposites—the mainstream dramatic tropes and a realistic tapestry—can be the formula to go for, for Bollywood.
Feb 2017
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Kaabil
... in the second half, the film becomes a usual revenge saga, marginally more engaging than deathly dull, dreary and deadening first half.
Jan 2017
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Raees
Quite like Big B’s Vijay, Raees is anti-establishment, an outlaw and also a Robin Hood figure...
Jan 2017
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Coffee With D
Sending up the media? Spoofing the underworld? Whatever it is that the filmmaker wants to do, it just doesn’t spark any interest in the viewer.
Jan 2017
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Ok Jaanu
...is an overly faithful, shot for shot remake of ‘O Kadhal Kanmani’ but misses out on the charisma of Dulquer and Nithya.
Jan 2017
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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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Prakash Electronic
Things happen rather randomly on screen—the twists, turns, misunderstandings and reconciliations—and somehow something like a film gets cobbled together.
Jan 2017
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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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Befikre
What the film does try is to remain unpredictable and breezy in its expression of it. It tries to hold back from wallowing in the traditional, even as it posits the time-honoured and conventional as a solution.
Dec 2016