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Pagalpanti
...this could have become a fairly decent satire. But that’s like asking for the moon and wishing Anees Bazmee was Kundan Shah.
Nov 2019
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Padmaavat
...may well be Bhansali’s most sterile and insipid outing since Saawariya and Guzaarish. It manages to wear down and exhaust rather than engage.
Jan 2018
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Feb 2018
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Mar 2012
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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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One By Two
Great characters, quite a few moments of quirk and some good lines let down by shoddy storytelling.
Feb 2014
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Once Upon A Time In Mumbai Dobaara
...the numerologically- and logically-challenged sequel titled Once Upon Ay Time in Mumbaai Dobaara does not have characters speaking dialogues. They only talk in punch lines.
Aug 2013
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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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O Teri
Umesh Bhisht does to Jaane Bhi Do Yaaron what RGV did to Sholay. Kills it and drags the corpse around. It’s no fun to watch.
Mar 2014
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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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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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NH10
...director Navdeep Singh gives Anushka Sharma a chance to drive solo on the Bollywood highway. And she drives her way through obstacles with amazing commitment.
Mar 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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Neerja
...the larger emotional swell and sentiment of the film makes one overlook things.
Feb 2016
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Nanu Ki Jaanu
To be fair, silliness, if done with aplomb, can be sublime fun at times. Nanu Ki Jaanu is none of it, only laughable.
Apr 2018
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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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My Birthday Song
Some spit and polish and this could have been a rare good Hindi thriller.
Jan 2018
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Murder 3
As for Vishesh, he hasn’t delivered anything special but has assembled enough to create ground for another Murder!
Feb 2013
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Munna Michael
The makers may walk home with money, Shroff with more fame, but the audience will return with a message that you could get away anything as long as it is cloaked in song and dance.
Jul 2017
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Mulk
Instead of talking to the converted, director Anubhav Sinha manages to use the conventions and tools of mainstream cinema to go beyond the liberal echo chambers and try and reach out to the masses. That, in fact, could well prove to be Mulk’s biggest strength.
Aug 2018
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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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Mukkabaaz
A rare sports film which steps away from jingoistic chest thumping to stare hard at the casteist and corrupt face of sports management in the country.
Jan 2018
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Mubarakan
If you survive the visual overload of mediocrity, the booming background music playing throughout will leave you with tintinnabulations of dhol, even long after the film is over, constantly reminding you of the torture you’ve endured.
Jul 2017
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Feb 2015
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Apr 2015
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Mr Joe B. Carvalho
It is supposed to be a satire; it is supposed to be a theatre of the absurd but unfortunately all that remains an idea on paper. On screen it is relentless torture.
Jan 2014
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Motichoor Chaknachoor
The rough humour, even the political incorrectness, of a few lines works given the context of the place and its denizens but the film doesn’t know when to stop and how to stay sharp and pointed.
Nov 2019
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Monsoon Shootout
It’s this Sliding Doors kind of broader structuring, the moody, monsoon-night noirish setting and the brooding air that make the film marginally engaging.
Dec 2017
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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