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Shorgul
...brave, politically potent references can hardly substitute for good characterisation and some decent writing.
Jul 2016
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7 Hours To Go
7 Hours To Go draws from films of the familiar genre but fails to do anything new with them.
Jun 2016
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Rough Book
...maybe a well-intentioned film that tries to talk about education’s descent into business in the country. But it is impossible to take it seriously.
Jun 2016
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Raman Raghav 2.0
...is a taut thriller, full of energy and brimming over with tension.
Jun 2016
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Udta Punjab
...ultimately for me Udta Punjab is not about the story, the four main characters, their acting or the music even. It’s about relentless exposure to a gut-wrenching reality for 148 minutes that I am still trying to process.
Jun 2016
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Dhanak
...one stayed invested and smiled along only because of the adorable actors with Bollywood references adding to the cute appeal. But it needed a lot else.
Jun 2016
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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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Housefull 3
Housefull 3’s brighter moments are owed to Akshay Kumar and fleetingly by Jackie Shroff – for the rest it’s all puerile silliness.
Jun 2016
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May 2016
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May 2016
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Sarbjit
...the director doesn’t seem to know how to calibrate emotions well. He goes overboard with melodrama, is so overtly manipulative that it leaves the various portrayals seem like cardboard cut-outs than throbbing with real life.
May 2016
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Azhar
Such is the eagerness to justify him that Tony D’Souza makes it seem as though the whole bad world is out to get him.
May 2016
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Dear Dad
...Arvind Swamy’s pleasing presence and earnest effort notwithstanding. Whatever is there to the plot is too shallow to keep it afloat for even 90 odd minutes.
May 2016
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Traffic
...wears thin, feels rushed. There is neither much of an emotional tug nor an edge-of-the-seat urgency that the film promised to deliver.
May 2016
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Fan
...SRK couldn’t have found a better vehicle than Fan, both as an actor and as a celebration of the highs and the lows of his own stardom.
Apr 2016
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Love Games
...is a C Grade film trying hard to be cool (pitches itself as urban-thriller) making it worse for itself.
Apr 2016
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The Blueberry Hunt
This could have been a cracker of a film to take the debate forward. But it prefers to remain hazy and tepid in a pointless world of its own.
Apr 2016
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Ki & Ka
A perennially righteous film that reinforces the very stereotypes it was promising to break.
Apr 2016
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Rocky Handsome
An adaptation can always be done with one’s own distinct touch. But Rocky Handsome is happy and satisfied in living off borrowed aesthetics even while clinging to its Indian self for all the wrong reasons. It ends up being neither here nor there.
Mar 2016
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Kapoor & Sons
There is something very finely calibrated and nicely measured about the entire package that is Kapoor & Sons.
Mar 2016
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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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Teraa Surroor
...no compelling cinema here, just an out and out guilty pleasure that requires a huge suspension of disbelief to go with the flow.
Mar 2016
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Zubaan
...is a film that you stay with till the end even as you rue that it could have been so much better.
Mar 2016
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Feb 2016
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Neerja
...the larger emotional swell and sentiment of the film makes one overlook things.
Feb 2016
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Fitoor
...wants desperately to be a grand, epic romance but depends way too much on its stunning Kashmir canvas to achieve that than characters and story that you can empathise with.
Feb 2016
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Sanam Teri Kasam
Radhika Rao and Vinay Sapru spin a modern, urban fairytale, albeit a gloomy, miserable one, which, in the name of being a woman-centric film, has one of the most feeble, helpless heroines seen in recent Hindi cinema...
Feb 2016