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Kahaani
Sujoy Ghosh is capable of delivering a tight script. He shows us that you can make a Hindi movie without songs and nobody will miss them.
Mar 2012
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Ekk Deewana Tha
Almost nothing works in the Hindi version. Prateik flubs his way through almost every scene; the editing is video-game frenetic, the cinematography tacky...
Feb 2012
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Agneepath
...richly detailed and grandly mounted sequences that just about manage to conceal the fact that this is a redundant remake.
Feb 2012
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Players
...it never makes the mistake of taking itself too seriously and manages to successfully Bollywood-ise a Hollywood speciality - the big-budget heist movie.
Jan 2012
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Desi Boyz
The movie is judgement-free, but it's also very pat. Buried underneath the piles of clothes discarded by Rocco and Hunter is a full-on sex comedy that's dying to come out.
Nov 2011
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Nov 2011
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Nov 2011
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Ra.One
...there's ultimately no escaping the poorly drawn characters, Khan's weird mannerisms and the surfeit of references to the male nether regions.
Oct 2011
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Saheb Biwi Aur Gangster
The actors sparkle, the dialogue crackles and, after what seems to be aeons, there is a sense of a director approaching his material with seriousness.
Oct 2011
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Force
...isn't quite as offensive as some other recent releases, but it neither captures the thrills of the original nor fixes the flaws.
Oct 2011
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Speedy Singhs
...evokes nearly every Hollywood sport-movie cliche there is in tracing the transformation of the Speedy Singhs team from underdog to top dog.
Sep 2011
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Mausam
...starts promisingly but runs into rough weather as soon as it leaves rural Punjab and goes globe-trotting.
Sep 2011
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Mere Brother Ki Dulhan
The story needed to have been far more farcical – and an hour shorter – for the premise to have worked. The story drags despite frenetic editing that seems to be aimed squarely at gamers.
Sep 2011
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Shabri
There's the same catatonic acting, the staccato dialogue delivery, the bursts of violence, the over-loud background score, the strange camera angles, the crooked cops and larger-than-life thugs. Perhaps it's time to give the Mumbai gangster genre a rest.
Sep 2011
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Bol
Rather than schadenfreude, the emotion likely to linger on after the film is over is empathy.
Sep 2011
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Bodyguard
Until somebody comes up with a smart way to channelise his brawny appeal and knack for self-deprecating humour – as Abhinav Singh Kashyap did in Dabanng – we are condemned to watch bad films repeat themselves.
Sep 2011
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Sahi Dhandhe Galat Bande
...patchily written and too long for its own good. But it is also attempts to tackle the issue of the acquisition of farm land with some degree of seriousness.
Aug 2011
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Aug 2011
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Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara
The suggestion that emotional tangles can be unravelled by putting on a diving suit is daffy, but Zoya Akhtar's talent lies in creating rich characters that you're likely to remember afterwards even if you don't recall what they actually ended up doing.
Jul 2011
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Delhi Belly
While Khan and off-screen stand up comedian Das also live up to their parts, the film doesn't work in bits. There's no real emotional core to the characters.
Jul 2011
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Bbuddah...Hoga Terra Baap
Jagannadh has packed in just about enough to keep Bachchan fans sated.
Jul 2011
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Chillar Party
...as soon as the kids take up matters bigger than their size and become preachy, the film loses its spark. Sometimes it is better to let kids be kids.
Jul 2011
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Jul 2011
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Always Kabhi Kabhi
...is likely to leave youngsters screaming "Never Ever Again" once it has ended.
Jul 2011
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Bheja Fry 2
Ballary depends too heavily on the lead character and soon runs out of ideas.
Jul 2011
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Ready
...an inoffensive but unmemorable comedy that rests entirely on Salman Khan’s very broad shoulders.
Jun 2011