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Waiting
...may be funereal in the larger scheme of things but it is a joy to see two great actors in fine form playing characters that learn from each other.
May 2016
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Traffic
The theme manoeuvring through Traffic is of empathy and second chance. It is sometimes subtle, other times shoved in your face.
May 2016
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One Night Stand
This is an erotic emotional excursion that makes me curious to see what the debutant director would attempt next.
May 2016
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Ki & Ka
A large part of Ki & Ka in fact resembles something that's been long overcooking inside Chetan Bhagat's head.
Apr 2016
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Mar 2016
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Feb 2016
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Neerja
After Airlift, we have another director’s film this year and this one is even better.
Feb 2016
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Ghayal Once Again
Perhaps it is Deol insisting that even if 2016 gives you all the multiplex films, my cinema from the 90s can co-exist?
Feb 2016
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Jugni
...turns out to be a well done short film padded up to be a feature. But it is still one of those unique efforts in this age of heroes because all the characters are delightfully flawed.
Jan 2016
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Airlift
...a triumph of the mainstream, a mainstream that gets sidelined in the critics’ circle either with a patronising tone or cynicism.
Jan 2016
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Wazir
Bad films only leave a bad taste in your mouth. But films like Wazir that had great potential upset your stomach.
Jan 2016
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Bajirao Mastani
Is there a filmmaker in Bollywood more relentless than Sanjay Leela Bhansali? Relentless in his choice of themes, palette, tone and mood.
Dec 2015
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Dilwale
Dilwale is Rohit Shetty misappropriating a genre created by the Chopras and inherited by Karan Johar.
Dec 2015
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X: Past is Present
The idea is interesting, but is not executed too well as the screenplay seems fraught with confusion.
Nov 2015
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Bhaag Johnny
To be fair, the initial portions are tight. Unfortunately everything is textured in the most generic.
Sep 2015
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Katti Batti
Only this film about a malformed man-child had a chance if it was a coming of age story. But here only we age as the film stutters to its end.
Sep 2015
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Manjhi
The story of Dashrath Manjhi must not be forgotten but let us please also ensure that the cinema that milks the lives of our unsung heroes, also gives something back to the milieu it takes its box office heft from.
Aug 2015
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Drishyam
Kamat’s Drishyam is not necessarily a dumbed-down version. It’s a version that lacks the nuances that were aplenty in the writing of the Malayalam version.
Aug 2015
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May 2015
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May 2015
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Apr 2015
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Badlapur
...Varun Dhawan completely draws you into his agony, his anger but when the villain of the film becomes more engrossing than the protagonist, we kind of lose the plot.
Feb 2015
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Dolly Ki Doli
When the film shifts to the story of a woman scorned does all its tonal inconsistencies show.
Jan 2015
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Baby
What Baby may lack in originality, it makes up for it in authenticity. This Baby is very healthy.
Jan 2015
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Tevar
This movie could have worked if it would have been released in the 90’s but now the plot seems a little off-track.
Jan 2015
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Happy Ending
This is cinema that laughs at itself but then does not really know where to go from there. Watch it for the actors though.
Nov 2014
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Happy New Year
Irreverence is one thing. Disrespect is another. And maybe this time Farah Khan will find that when the line between the two is blurred, the joke is on the person who is cracking it.
Oct 2014
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Khoobsurat
Entertaining occasionally but never believable and always lost in a burst of colour.
Sep 2014