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Jab Tak Hai Jaan
We’d rather not point out more flaws in Yash Chopra’s swansong. Instead, let’s celebrate what has been a singularly important career.
Nov 2012
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Ishqiya
...the best thing about Ishqiya is how grown-up it is...Ishqiya’s humour and sensuality is for adults who are not afraid to confront the depths of their emotions.
Jan 2010
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I Me Aur Main
It’s a little scary to spend any film entirely in John Abraham’s company.
Mar 2013
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I Hate Luv Storys
...stretches on and on and, despite its best intentions, says nothing new about Bollywood’s treatment of love and relationships.
Jul 2010
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Humshakals
Humshakals should set several online forums on fire, with topics ranging from “Is Humshakals Really Worse Than Himmatwala?” to “Saif Ali Khan’s Mid-life Crisis – Desperate For A 100cr Hit” to “Must Sajid Khan Get To Make Films Only He And His Friends Enjoy?”
Jun 2014
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Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhania
...keeps afloat due to some smart lines and breezy humour, and the camaraderie between its two endearing leads, Varun Dhawan and Alia Bhatt.
Jul 2014
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Highway
...Imtiaz Ali’s most honest, personal film and, hopefully, the beginning of a chapter in his career that will be dictated more by craft and intention and less by commerce and entertainment.
Feb 2014
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Heropanti
Director Sabbir Khan abandons the promise of a mindless action entertainer in favour of a more mindless emotional drama, which he naturally finds himself inept at.
May 2014
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Heroine
The saving grace of this film is Kapoor, who holds her own despite an inept screenplay that is keen to sensationalize rather than empathize for the protagonist.
Sep 2012
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Hawaa Hawaai
...there’s so much goodness, so much warmth and such honesty in Hawaa Hawaai’s intentions, it’s hard to not have your heart melt.
May 2014
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Haunted
...all familiar elements of the horror film genre. They are present in spades in Haunted, but they tickle the funny bone rather than send shivers down your spine.
May 2011
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May 2011
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Feb 2014
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Jan 2013
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Guzaarish
...Guzaarish points to a limited imagination that is so much in thrall to European costume dramas it lacks a soul of its own.
Dec 2010
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Gunday
...there’s little that oiled physiques, buttoned-down shirts and pectoral muscles can achieve without a decent script or good direction. Gunday has neither.
Feb 2014
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Mar 2014
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Gori Tere Pyaar Mein
This is what happens when a production house best known for its stories about the rich and the indolent trains its sights on the downtrodden.
Nov 2013
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Ghanchakkar
It's a pity - given the collective talent on display – that the film never quite rises above its potential.
Jun 2013
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Gangs Of Wasseypur 2
The movie is as much heartless fun as the first, but it will also hopefully be the last word in the romanticisation of mofussil chic that has come to characterise a section of Hindi cinema.
Aug 2012
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Gang of Ghosts
...an absolute disaster and a golden example of how handing over creative control of your story to somebody else can be a bad idea.
Mar 2014
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Game
...a movie has to be much more than the sum of liquor-ad lighting, sharp clothes and tourism brochure locations.
Apr 2011
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Jun 2013
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Jun 2014
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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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Ferrari Ki Sawaari
Mapuskar directs his actors with confidence and boldly shoots the films in real locations, but the movie needed to have been crisper and quicker, more Ferrari than Ambassador.
Jun 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