Thug Life≈3/5
2025 · Tamil · The Hollywood Reporter
Thirty-eight years after the juggernaut success of 'Nayakan,' its director and star reunite for a crime drama about an aging gangster seeking revenge.
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146Under 2.25
652.25 to 2.9
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SardarNo rating
2022 · Tamil · Film Companion
Still, I recommend that you see Sardar Udham for the extent of its ambition. And for the way in which the film, without resorting to chest-thumping or jingoism, establishes what patriotism looks like.
Ek Villain ReturnsNo rating
2022 · Hindi · Film Companion
Eight years ago, director Mohit Suri, seemingly inspired by the Korean film I Saw the Devil (2010), created a deeply misogynistic but genuinely creepy tale about a serial killer.
Vikrant RonaNo rating
2022 · Kannada · Film Companion
Somewhere inside Vikrant Rona is a surprising, spooky saga about a daredevil cop with a tragic backstory.
ShamsheraNo rating
2022 · Hindi · Film Companion
These arent stumbling blocks for Malhotra who wants, more than anything, to create a big screen extravaganza. There are inventively staged set-pieces in Shamshera where he succeeds, especially in the first half.
Rocketry: The Nambi EffectNo rating
2022 · Tamil · Film Companion
For his unstinting service to science and the country, Narayanan was accused of espionage in 1994 and subjected to custodial torture by Intelligence Bureau (IB) officers.
Rashtra Kavach OmNo rating
2022 · Hindi · Film Companion
Rashtra Kavach Om is the sort of film in which the hero can hold down an airborne helicopter with the sheer strength of his biceps.
NikammaNo rating
2022 · Hindi · Film Companion
Nikamma is a remake of a Telugu film called Middle Class Abbayi, which means middle-class boy. I havent seen the original but the Hindi version could be titled 50 Shades of Ridiculous. Clearly, logic isnt Sabbirs forte.
AnekNo rating
2022 · Hindi · Film Companion
Anek is a confused and confusing political thriller. It is the fourth film in writer-director Anubhav Sinhas 2.0 avatar the first, Mulk, dealt with communalism, Article 15 with casteism and Thappad with sexismLargely, however…
Runway 34No rating
2022 · Hindi · Film Companion
Runway 34 is pretty much the Ajay Devgn show. Vikrants character seems to have emerged from the strong-silent-stoic persona that Ajay has honed over three decades in film.
Heropanti 2No rating
2022 · Hindi · Film Companion
In my review of the first film, I had said that Tiger was absolutely a star but that the film was comically bad. Heropanti 2 has redefined the phrase for me.
JerseyNo rating
2022 · Hindi · Film Companion
Thankfully, the emotional drama is heightened and the twist at the end, about what happened to Arjun, will make you tear up. Especially if you are unfamiliar with the original.
K.G.F: Chapter 2No rating
2022 · Kannada · Film Companion
KGF: Chapter 2 is a film that requires commitment. It is, as Prashanth put it, anti-gravity cinema. Rules of physics or logic dont apply.
JalsaNo rating
2022 · Hindi · Film Companion
Director: Suresh TriveniWriter: Prajwal Chandrashekar, Suresh Triveni, Hussain Dalal, Abbas DalalCast: Vidya Balan, Shefali Shah, Rohini Hattangadi, Surya Kasibhatla, Manav Kaul, Kashish Rizwan, Shafeen Patel, Vidhatri Bandi…
Radhe ShyamNo rating
2022 · Telugu · Film Companion
There is a fine line that separates swooning romance from unintentional comedy. Radhe Shyam is a masterclass in what happens when you cross it.
JhundNo rating
2022 · Hindi · Film Companion
Jhund is an unwieldy film but its not a forgettable one. Take the track of Rinku, who plays a village girl without any identification who must somehow get a passport made.
Gangubai KathiawadiNo rating
2022 · Hindi · Film Companion
What takes this film beyond the rigorously composed, beautifully lit, signature SLB frames is the thumping storytelling.
A ThursdayNo rating
2022 · Hindi · Film Companion
A Thursday has stray moments like these that make you sit up and take notice. But mostly the film lurches about without enough focus.
GehraiyaanNo rating
2022 · Hindi · Film Companion
In Hannah and Her Sisters, a film that Shakun cites as a major influence, a character describes the heart as a very, very resilient little muscle. Gehraiyaan is a testament to that.
Badhaai DoNo rating
2022 · Hindi · Film Companion
And still, Badhaai Do doesnt become absorbing until we are more than halfway through. Unlike Badhaai Ho, which was also written by Akshat, this film isnt consistent with either its laughs or its emotions.
Veerame Vaagai SoodumNo rating
2022 · Tamil · Film Companion
Vishal looks earnest throughout, even in the heavily Anjaan-inspired second half. Porus gets to the final villain by working his way up the pecking order of bad guys.
Looop LapetaNo rating
2022 · Hindi · Film Companion
Looop Lapeta is the story of that one life-altering day for Satya and his partner Savi.
Atrangi ReNo rating
2021 · Hindi · Film Companion
Atrangi Re has the same DNA. Here, they concoct a love triangle which isnt what it seems. The story takes unexpected turns.
83No rating
2021 · Hindi · Film Companion
83 also works because the film is suffused with nostalgia. The big landline telephones and those long-distance calls, which invariably ended with people at both ends shouting hello, hello because the connection would be lost; the…
Spider-Man: No Way HomeNo rating
2021 · English · Film Companion
The film becomes a rousing adventure, a nostalgia-filled celebration of all three Spidey installments and a bittersweet reminder of the relentless passage of time.
Chandigarh Kare AashiquiNo rating
2021 · Hindi · Film Companion
The film falls into the emerging sub-genre of Hindi films that aim to make viewers reconsider their perspectives on tricky topics such as sexual orientation and gender. The messaging is made palatable by the packaging.
Bob BiswasNo rating
2021 · Hindi · Film Companion
Sujoy is one of Hindi cinemas leading directors of thrillers. Its hard to gauge Diyas ability to follow in her fathers footsteps because this film is so badly hobbled by the script.
TadapNo rating
2021 · Hindi · Film Companion
Ishana in Tadap is the less interesting brother of Kabir Singh. Unlike Kabir, he doesnt bulldoze a woman into romance actually, its the opposite, she makes the first move.
Antim: The Final TruthNo rating
2021 · Hindi · Film Companion
The trouble is that the film, already shouldering the burden of Salman, soon dissipates into a head-swirling saga of guns and goons. The human cost of development, which was the key idea in Mulshi Pattern, is drowned out.
Dhamaka≈3/5
2021 · Hindi · Film Companion
Dhamaka isnt a bad film I dont think Ram is capable of making one. But neither does it match his previous work the brilliant Neerja and the series Aarya. Dhamaka is passable, which coming from Ram, feels like he was slumming it.
2021 · Hindi · Film Companion
But the real downer is that the film wastes its younger pair . But their characters are even flatter.
Meenakshi SundareshwarNo rating
2021 · Hindi · Film Companion
The Madurai portions have specificity and detailing with solid casting by Taran Bajaj the hapless tutor who cant get Sundareshwars nephew to learn his math tables was my favorite.
SooryavanshiNo rating
2021 · Hindi · Film Companion
Sooryavanshi works hard to be an entertainer that can also somehow deliver key messaging about the tragic consequences of religious hate, the undying spirit of Mumbai and the unstinting bravery of Mumbais cops but the…
Sardar UdhamNo rating
2021 · Hindi · Film Companion
Still, I recommend that you see Sardar Udham for the extent of its ambition. And for the way in which the film, without resorting to chest-thumping or jingoism, establishes what patriotism looks like.
Rashmi RocketNo rating
2021 · Hindi · Film Companion
Rashmi Rocket is a bit of a muddle. The film is situated between fact and fiction.
DoctorNo rating
2021 · Tamil · Film Companion
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness is stuffed with characters and plot, but ultimately little of it feels urgent. Is this, I wonder, a design flaw in the very idea of the multiverse?
ShiddatNo rating
2021 · Hindi · Film Companion
Shiddat strains to be epic in its romance in one scene, the legend of Sohni Mahiwal is evoked but also, contemporary. We get a one-night stand, Instagram plays a role and there are lines like: Where do you get condoms your size?
Bhoot PoliceNo rating
2021 · Hindi · Film Companion
The film is a horror comedy a genre that is often used by Bollywood as an excuse to peddle lazy writing.
ShershaahNo rating
2021 · Hindi · Film Companion
Ultimately, Shershaah plays it too safe. The film doesnt have the daring of its subject. But Vikram Batras story is so stirring that it rises above this.
MimiNo rating
2021 · Hindi · Film Companion
Buried somewhere inside Mimi is a moving story about parenting and what it means to raise and love a child.
Sandeep Aur Pinky FaraarNo rating
2021 · Hindi · Film Companion
Be warned that Sandeep Aur Pinky Faraar doesnt have the pacing that you might expect in a chase film. The narrative has long stretches that plod dangerously.
Mumbai SagaNo rating
2021 · Hindi · Film Companion
Mumbai Saga is apparently inspired by true events. I think there is a compelling story here of how the contours and conscience of the city shifted in 1996 and what was lost when Bombay became Mumbai.
RoohiNo rating
2021 · Hindi · Film Companion
The film tries to continue in the tradition of feminist horror forged by films like Pari, Stree and Bulbbul. Mrighdeep and Gautam use Roohis story to deliver a message of self-acceptance and finding your inner strength.
Drishyam 2No rating
2021 · Malayalam · Film Companion
Drishyam 2:The Resumption doesnt have the organic seamlessness of the first film. The construction is more convoluted you can almost see Joseph straining to put the pieces of the puzzle together. But its equally gripping.
Ramprasad Ki TehrviNo rating
2021 · Hindi · Film Companion
Ram Prasad ki Tehrvi has passages that are inert. In some scenes, the films strains much too hard to tug at our heartstrings. And the script ties up the narrative threads a little too neatly.
Coolie No. 1No rating
2020 · Hindi · Film Companion
As it turned out, the opening credits were the most benign part of this train-wreck. The rest of it is even more harebrained, distasteful and unfunny.
Durgamati: The MythNo rating
2020 · Hindi · Film Companion
Bhumi delivers with full sincerity, banging her head on walls, glaring and screaming, punishing herself with aplomb.
Suraj Pe Mangal BhariNo rating
2020 · Hindi · Film Companion
Its a set-up with potential but director Abhishek Sharma, who earlier made Tere Bin Laden: Dead or Alive and The Zoya Factor, botches it up.
ChhalaangNo rating
2020 · Hindi · Film Companion
Hansal Mehta and Rajkummar Rao constitute one of Hindi cinemas most potent artistic collaborations.
LudoNo rating
2020 · Hindi · Film Companion
In an early scene in the film, a song from the 1951 blockbuster Albela is playing on a television set. Bhagwan, in a chefs outfit, is pondering on qismat ki hawa which can sometimes be naram and sometimes garam.
LaxmiiNo rating
2020 · Hindi · Film Companion
The writing is awful. The message of inclusion is noble but also obviously fraudulent because the film itself contradicts it.
Sadak 2No rating
2020 · Hindi · Film Companion
To watch Sadak 2 is to travel in a time machine. You of course revisit the 90sSadak 2 doesnt just mirror the original in terms of narrative beats.
Ginny Weds SunnyNo rating
2020 · Hindi · Film Companion
The film picks up pace once Ginny starts to get interested in Sunny. But even then, the screenplay is unnecessarily stretched. One of the big holes is the character of Ginny.
Khaali PeeliNo rating
2020 · Hindi · Film Companion
Khaali Peeli is essentially a 2.0 version of Sadak. Once again, a taxi driver rescues a young woman from a brothel, which is run by a dreaded villain.
Serious MenNo rating
2020 · Hindi · Film Companion
Director Sudhir Mishra and writers Bhavesh Mandalia, Abhijeet Khuman, Nikhil Nair and Niren Bhatt, reduce the sting of the book. The result is a drama with a less curdled view of humanity.
Class of ’83No rating
2020 · Hindi · Film Companion
Too much of Class of 83 feels like a retread. The faces are new but the portrayal of the system, corruption, the utter lawlessness of both cops and criminals, is familiar.
Khuda HaafizNo rating
2020 · Hindi · Film Companion
Faruk works hard to imbue a gritty realism into the narrative but ultimately Khuda Haafiz falls into that same silliness that Vidyut Jammwal action movies often do. Logic exits the frame. The villains become more outlandish.
Shakuntala DeviNo rating
2020 · Hindi · Film Companion
Menon and the writers try hard to create a compelling portrait of a woman whose very existence defied patriarchy even her sari and braids played a key role in breaking stereotypes.
Gulabo SitaboNo rating
2020 · Hindi · Film Companion
Gulabo Sitabo is likely to be an acquired taste. As I watched, I wondered how this old-world film would have played in a theater. What would the warm blues and oranges of the haveli look like on a big screen?
Angrezi MediumNo rating
2020 · Hindi · Film Companion
I found myself teary at the end of Angrezi Medium. I was moved by Champaks emotions.
KaamyaabNo rating
2020 · Hindi · Film Companion
Kaamyaab asks us to do something that we dont usually do shift focus from the hero to the actor in the periphery of the frame.
Baaghi 3No rating
2020 · Hindi · Film Companion
As I said in my Baaghi 2 review, Tiger Shroff is the platonic ideal of the Bollywood action hero. He makes outlandish situations exciting. But even he needs a compelling story to hang that action on.
ThappadNo rating
2020 · Hindi · Film Companion
Thappad is the story of a single slap. A blow to the cheek that Vikram, angry, frustrated, a little drunk, inflicts on his wife Amrita who is attempting to steer him away from an escalating conflict.
Bhoot: Part One – The Haunted ShipNo rating
2020 · Hindi · Film Companion
I settled in thinking that Bollywood would finally deliver an efficient horror movie it might not have the layers and craft of a Tumbbad but it would pack enough frights and twists to keep you hooked. Sadly, no such luck.
Shubh Mangal Zyada SaavdhanNo rating
2020 · Hindi · Film Companion
To begin with, lets applaud the fact that Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan exists. For too long, Bollywood has trapped homosexuality in cruel stereotypes.
Love Aaj KalNo rating
2020 · Hindi · Film Companion
Love Aaj Kal is a confounding film about confused people. Perhaps writer-director Imtiaz Ali was attempting to have the storytelling reflect the emotions of his leads.
Jawaani JaanemanNo rating
2020 · Hindi · Film Companion
Jawaani Jaaneman is an official adaptation of the 2010 Argentinian comedy Igualita A Mi which means Just Like Me.
PangaNo rating
2020 · Hindi · Film Companion
It does however get flat in the second half. I think, after so many sports films, including Niteshs own masterful Dangal, Im a little fatigued with training montages and matches.
Street Dancer 3DNo rating
2020 · Hindi · Film Companion
Street Dancer 3D is a master-class in all the incredible things the human body can do.
Jai Mummy DiNo rating
2020 · Hindi · Film Companion
I know that its hard to feel sorry for me. I speak from a place of privilege. After all, I watch movies for a living. But sometimes the films I endure are so downright awful that I feel its legitimate for me to whine a little.
ChhapaakNo rating
2020 · Hindi · Film Companion
Meghna stages the attack with an unflinching gaze. Its devastating to watch the horror unfold so casually in a crowded market place. The bystanders gaze as a womans face melts.
Dabangg 3No rating
2019 · Hindi · Film Companion
When you step into Dabangg 3, you know youre in for a Salman Khan extravaganza. Which would be fine if there was some attempt to tweak the formula or push it into a new direction.
Mardaani 2No rating
2019 · Hindi · Film Companion
Some things are a given in the Mardaani franchise like a proficient performance from Rani Mukerji, who is a consistently watchable and skilled actor.
PanipatNo rating
2019 · Hindi · Film Companion
The biggest hurdle is the writing Ashutosh, Ranjeet Bahadur, Chandrashekhar Dhavalikar and Aditya Rawal are credited with screenplay and Ashok Chakradhar for dialogue.
Pati Patni Aur WohNo rating
2019 · Hindi · Film Companion
Pati Patni Aur Woh is a 1978 film about a married man who has an affair with his secretary. When she first walks into his office, he stares at her breasts and imagines undressing her.
Commando 3No rating
2019 · Hindi · Film Companion
The story, written by Darius Yarmil and Junaid Wasi, is attempting to speak to and cash in on the present political climate. Commando 3 is more ambitious than Commando 2 but that film set a pretty low bar.
Motichoor ChaknachoorNo rating
2019 · Hindi · Film Companion
But Motichoor Chaknachoor has modest aspirations and it never soars above them because the writing isnt strong enough. As long as the film stays breezy and jokey, it stays afloat.
MarjaavaanNo rating
2019 · Hindi · Film Companion
Marjaavaan is the kind of film in which characters deliver dialogue and then walk away in slow motion. Men spend a few seconds growling and then they attack each other Ive never understood this.
BalaNo rating
2019 · Hindi · Film Companion
There is enough to enjoy here and yet Bala doesnt land with the sophistication and satisfaction of Amars first film Stree. Largely because the writing doesnt have that subversion and cleverness.
Ujda ChamanNo rating
2019 · Hindi · Film Companion
The biggest problem with Ujda Chaman is that the film wants to have it both ways first make you laugh with cheesy jokes about sex and virginity and then deliver an important social message about why we shouldnt judge people by…
The Sky Is PinkNo rating
2019 · Hindi · Film Companion
The Sky is Pink deals with extreme anguish but it feels too sanitized. Still, at the end, when you see photos of the real Aisha, Ishaan, Niren and Aditi, the weight of their tragedy and force of their indomitable spirit hits home.
WarNo rating
2019 · Hindi · Film Companion
War isnt trying for depth but the story isnt afraid of being slightly more twisty. The film is too long and the post-interval portion sags.
ChhichhoreNo rating
2019 · Hindi · Film Companion
The one-line pitch for Chhichhore would be Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikandar meets 3 Idiots meets Student of the Year. Chhichhore encapsulates all of this.
Saaho≈2.5/5
2019 · Telugu · Film Companion
I know that a popcorn entertainer like Saaho isnt driven by logic or coherence. And I would have made my peace with it if the film delivered a good time. My biggest complaint is that its a crashing bore.
Batla HouseNo rating
2019 · Hindi · Film Companion
What saves the day is a burst of full-blown melodrama. In the climactic courtroom scene, Sanjay gives a rousing speech and Rajesh Sharma as the defense lawyer hams to glory. He presents the students point of view.
Mission MangalNo rating
2019 · Hindi · Film Companion
We get it. Its hard to make intelligence look entertaining. But its harder to make intelligence look stupid. And yet, this is exactly what Mission Mangal manages to do.
Jabariya JodiNo rating
2019 · Hindi · Film Companion
Artificial is this films middle name. The pakadwa shaadi might sound like poetic justice, a fitting reply to the horrors of dowry, but its also a crime.
Khandaani ShafakhanaNo rating
2019 · Hindi · Film Companion
The template for tackling taboo subjects with humor has been set by Vicky Donor and Shubh Mangal Saavdhan. You combine naturalistic textures with solid performances and crackling writing.
Judgementall Hai KyaNo rating
2019 · Hindi · Film Companion
Hindi cinema has an extremely dodgy record of depicting mental illness. Judgementall Hai Kya comes with an empathetic gaze, which is a big step forward. The ambition of the story both in content and style is very exciting.
Super 30No rating
2019 · Hindi · Film Companion
Super 30 is the ultimate underdog story. Its based on the life of Patna mathematician Anand Kumar who transformed the lives of impoverished children with free coaching, which enabled them to get into IIT.
Article 15No rating
2019 · Hindi · Film Companion
In Mulk, Anubhav gave us a more intimate story of a family that we could emotionally invest in. Article 15 doesnt allow for that.
Game OverNo rating
2019 · Tamil · Film Companion
Taapsee powers through the sloppiness of this material. So does her co-star Vinodhini Vaidyanathan, whose maternal disposition works like a calming balm on all the screaming and slicing.
BharatNo rating
2019 · Hindi · Film Companion
Bharat also makes a promise to his father and spends the rest of the film fulfilling it. But Ali has the mammoth task of telling this ambitious, sprawling story while also keeping intact the Salman Khan mythology.
Student of the Year 2No rating
2019 · Hindi · Film Companion
In my review of Student of the Year, I had said that Karans films work as both designer porn and soap opera. Punit gets the designer porn bang on but the drama and emotion is sorely missing.
Blank2.5/5
2019 · Hindi · The Times of India
'Blank' has a complex narrative but not every piece of the puzzle makes sense. There are too many loopholes in the writing and the character development.
Kalank3/5
2019 · Hindi · Film Companion
Kalank is a Sanjay Leela Bhansali film, not directed by Sanjay Leela Bhansali. Director Abhishek Varman is a good disciple. He has taken the signature Bhansali tropes and reworked them into a tangled tale set in 1940s India.
2019 · Hindi · Film Companion
RAW begins with an extreme close-up of Romeo battered and bleeding. The opening sequence landed a solid punch and my hopes were raised. This material had the potential to be a suspenseful espionage drama.
Junglee2/5
2019 · Hindi · Film Companion
Let me be clear I didnt go in looking for complexity. Junglee couldve played like a fun action adventure. One of my fondest childhood memories is watching Haathi Mere Saathi which had Rajesh Khanna cavorting with four elephants.
Kesari2.5/5
2019 · Hindi · Film Companion
What does wobble is the writing, which needed to be tighter and more layered.
Photograph3/5
2019 · Hindi · Film Companion
Photograph is a meditative movie on a relationship that I hesitate to call love. And yet, Photograph doesnt come together as beautifully as The Lunchbox did. The screenplay isnt as sharp or insightful.
Badla2.5/5
2019 · Hindi · Film Companion
Badla is an official adaptation of the 2016 Spanish movie The Invisible Guest. I purposely didnt watch that film because I didnt want to taint my experience of this one.
Sonchiriya3/5
2019 · Hindi · Film Companion
Sonchiriya tries to blend Spaghetti Western style-action drama with social commentary but it isnt entirely satisfying on either count.
Luka Chuppi2/5
2019 · Hindi · Film Companion
Luka Chuppi is a tiresome tale of a couple from Mathura, Guddu and Rashmi, who decide to experiment with a live-in relationship. They do this by pretending to be married.
Gully Boy4/5
2019 · Hindi · Film Companion
Be warned some of rap battles go on for much too long. Gully Boy has a measured pace with a 2 hour 36 minute-running time and you will get restless.
2019 · Hindi · Film Companion
At two hours and twenty-eight minutes, Manikarnika is unforgivably long. It's been directed by both Krish Jagarlamudi and Kangana herself. In interviews, Kangana has said that 70 percent of it is her work.
Why Cheat India2.5/5
2019 · Hindi · Film Companion
Why Cheat India cant decide if Rocky is a hero or villain. I dont have a problem with that. Whats harder to take is the inconsistent tonality and the convoluted second act.
2019 · Hindi · Film Companion
An Unabashed Love Letter To The Indian Army...The dance between a realistic terrorist drama and rousing action thriller proves to be too much
Zero2/5
2018 · Hindi · Film Companion
The truth is that Im still trying to understand Zero. The story begins in Meerut and somehow moves to Mars.
2.03/5
2018 · Tamil · Film Companion
Is there such a thing as an over-fertile imagination? What is that tipping point when dazzling becomes exhausting?
Pihu2/5
2018 · Hindi · Film Companion
Pihu is Trapped meets Home Alone without the anguish or the humour. A toddler, Pihu, wakes up next to her inert mother. Her father is not at home. Pihu shoves and calls and cries but her mom wont open her eyes.
Tumbbad4/5
2018 · Hindi · Film Companion
Tumbbad is a mysterious and magical movie. The story spans generations and decades we begin in 1918 and end a little after Independence.
Helicopter Eela1.5/5
2018 · Hindi · Film Companion
You remember Anjali Sharma the character Kajol played in Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham…? Shes over-animated, shrill and drop-dead gorgeous. Well, if she got older and became a single mom, she would be Eela in Helicopter Eela.
Loveyatri2/5
2018 · Hindi · Film Companion
LoveYatri is a 1990s film being released in 2018. Twenty years ago, Hindi cinema specialized in NRIs, Hindu festivals, Indian values, large families and strict fathers who would invariably let go of their daughters hand and say…
Andhadhun3.5/5
2018 · Hindi · Film Companion
Andhadhun is inspired by a French short film called The Piano Tuner.
2018 · Hindi · Film Companion
So Sui Dhaaga: Made In India is unsatisfying but also poignant.
Pataakha3/5
2018 · Hindi · The Indian Express
Pataakha movie cast: Vijay Raaz, Sanya Malhotra, Radhika Madan, Namit Das, Saanand Varma, Abhishek Duhan Pataakha movie director: Vishal Bhardwaj Pataakha movie ratings: 3 stars
Paltan2/5
2018 · Hindi · Film Companion
J.P. Dutta's film, based on a military operation against the Chinese at the Nathu La Pass in Sikkim in 1967, is structurally clumsy, bland and flat-out tedious
Gali Guleiyan3.5/5
2018 · Hindi · Film Companion
There is enough to admire in Dipesh Jain's ambitious first film about a lonely paranoiac living in Old Delhi – especially the unstinting talent of Manoj Bajpayee
2018 · Hindi · Film Companion
Dharam ji still has dollops of charm but even he or Sunny Deols iconic dhai kilo ka haath cant lift this incoherent film.
Stree3.5/5
2018 · Hindi · Film Companion
Director Amar Kaushik and writers Krishna D.K. and Raj Nidimoru create a horror-comedy, which turns out to be subversive commentary on the position and treatment of women in India.
Gold3/5
2018 · Hindi · Film Companion
The straitjacket of the sports film seems to have flattened writer-director Reema Kagti's distinctive voice but there is a palpable high when the team finally coalesces into one and goes for the kill
Karwaan2/5
2018 · Hindi · Film Companion
If the story had more depth, these three could have worked magic. But Karwaan stays on the surface. Which, it must be said, is beautiful – this film will make you want to book a trip to Kerala. But it could have been much more.
Lust Stories3.5/5
2018 · Hindi · Film Companion
My advice would be to watch all four films as a whole and in the order the filmmakers intended. It's more enriching.
Race 32/5
2018 · Hindi · Film Companion
Race 3 has the cars and locations but everything else is in short supply especially the trademark kameenapan. The entry of Salman Khan has made the franchise sanskari.
2018 · Hindi · Film Companion
There is an airport ending, too, but not in the classical sense. Again, the thought is pragmatic and sensitive; distance, at times, is the only way to create space for better engagement.
102 Not Out3/5
2018 · Hindi · Film Companion
102 Not Out is uneven but heartfelt. Despite the flaws, the emotions connect. And if like me, you are of a certain vintage, you will get a nostalgic head-rush when you see Rishi Kapoor and Amitabh Bachchan in the same frame.
2018 · Hindi · Film Companion
Ultimately Beyond the Clouds is a mixed bag. It is likely to be a footnote in Majidi's rich filmography. But the film is worth seeing as an intriguing experiment. I'm going with three stars.
2018 · Hindi · The Times of India
The narrative in Beyond the Clouds is overwrought. The beats are predictable and the treatment, heavy-handed. Through Majidis eyes, the city of Mumbai might seem new but the characters are familiar.
Mercury3/5
2018 · Tamil · Film Companion
Because Mercury finds context, and not just gimmickry, in its treatment of sound. It remains scary precisely because the actual ghosts are never seen, but only ever heard about. Just like real life.
October3.5/5
2018 · Hindi · Film Companion
...this is the sort of film that will divide audiences – for some, it will play as painfully pretentious. For others, it will evoke a depth of emotions. I belong to the latter.
Blackmail2.5/5
2018 · Hindi · Film Companion
Abhinay Deo's film starring Irrfan Khan is about controlled chaos but to pull that off, you need much sharper writing and a faster pace...
Missing1.5/5
2018 · Hindi · Film Companion
Somewhere, buried in this wreck is a satisfying suspense thriller. But it never emerges.
Baaghi 22.5/5
2018 · Hindi · Film Companion
This remake of a 2016 Telugu thriller Kshanam, is an improvement on the generic Tiger Shroff action movie. At least the action is grounded in some emotion...
Daas Dev2/5
2018 · Hindi · Film Companion
Daas Dev is meant to be a study of power and what happens to those who lust for it. It's a solid idea lost in execution.
Hichki2.5/5
2018 · Hindi · Film Companion
Hichki is a genuinely earnest film made with heart. But it doesn't take enough risks and consequently doesn't touch a raw nerve in the way that Taare Zameen Par did.
Raid3/5
2018 · Hindi · Film Companion
Despite unnecessary romantic interludes, the first half of Raid plays like a taut police procedural.
3 Storeys2.5/5
2018 · Hindi · Film Companion
The multi-story format isnt novel weve seen it both locally in films like Mani Ratnams Yuva and internationally, in classics like Alejandro I±¡rritus Amores Perros.
Pari2/5
2018 · Hindi · Film Companion
Pari asks the big question – are human beings in fact the biggest monsters? I say the biggest horror is a lame script.
2018 · Hindi · Film Companion
... this incoherent mess of a film plays out more like an extended skit or a school play
2018 · Hindi · Film Companion
Director Luv Ranjan does have a flair for comedy but the laughs can't compensate for the lack of logic in this film about a man trying to break off his best friend's marriage
Aiyaary2/5
2018 · Hindi · Film Companion
With films like A Wednesday, Special Chabbis and Baby, Neeraj Pandey has established himself as Bollywood's go-to director for stories of men in uniform. He has a genuine love and flair for making these worlds come alive.
Padmaavat2.5/5
2018 · Hindi · Film Companion
I'm an admirer of Sanjay's passion and rigour, of his operatic sensibility and his commitment to creating epics. He isn't subtle but he always plays for broke.
2018 · Hindi · Film Companion
Debutant director Kushal Srivastava is trying to create a twisty suspense thriller – a la M. Night Shyamalan. But the script is riddled with football-size loopholes.
2017 · Hindi · Film Companion
About an hour into Fukrey Returns, Hunny, one of the four fukreys, solemnly declares sabhi cheezen samajh aayen, yeh zaroori toh nahin. I felt like he was direct messaging me. Because honestly, I just didnt get this film.
Solo2.5/5
2017 · Malayalam · Film Companion
Solo: A Star Wars Story is heartbreaking not because its bad but because its ordinary. There is such a sense of programmed industrial product about it.
Kaabil3/5
2017 · Hindi · Film Companion
Kaabil is a B-grade genre film elevated by the blazing talent of its lead player Hrithik Roshan. Hrithik invests so much sweat and sincerity into this slim story that he forces us to stay invested in it.
Raees3/5
2017 · Hindi · Film Companion
The trouble is that Rahul is trying to create a gritty crime drama but he is also upholding the myth of the superstar Shah Rukh Khan.
Ok Jaanu2/5
2017 · Hindi · Hindustan Times
This is just a pointless film, because an exact frame-for-frame version already exists in Tamil. | Entertainment News
Dangal4/5
2016 · Hindi · Hindustan Times
Director Nitesh Tiwari hits the familiar notes of the sports film in which the underdog becomes a champion.
Pink4/5
2016 · Hindi · NDTV
Pink is a savage indictment of our sordid patriarchy that shackles women in stereotypes. Pink works because the grimness of the material doesn’t weigh on the telling. This isn’t a laboured lecture on women’s rights.
Mohenjo Daro1.5/5
2016 · Hindi · Film Companion
It breaks my heart to say this because so much talent and sweat is involved but Mohenjo Daro is a mess. It has ambition and scale.In an interview, Ashutosh had requested viewers to suspend disbelief when they see the film.
Rustom2/5
2016 · Hindi · Film Companion
The film is brave enough to give us a man who is so evolved that he understands and forgives his errant wife. But instead of exploring the dynamics of this, we get lost in heroism, corruption and courtroom dramatics.
Housefull 31.5/5
2016 · Hindi · Hindustan Times
There are a few scenes in which the lunacy hits the mark, but they are painfully infrequent. At one point Sandy, pretending to be wheelchair-bound, lunges at Bakul's feet, saying: 'Wheel payna papaji'. I had to laugh.
Masaan4/5
2015 · Hindi · Hindustan Times
Sanjay Mishra's grief is so palpable that it gets under your skin. Even the actors with smaller roles, like Shweta Tripathi and Pankaj Tripathi, make an impression. But the real find is Vicky Kaushal.
Bajrangi Bhaijaan3.5/5
2015 · Hindi · Hindustan Times
This is an overblown, old-fashioned, feelgood film. But I recommend that you surrender, and keep a hanky handy.
2015 · Hindi · Hindustan Times
The strong writing is complimented by equally strong performances. Deepak Dobriyal is wonderful as the hapless, permanently rejected Pappi.
Piku4/5
2015 · Hindi · Hindustan Times
Piku speaks its truth with simplicity and heart. It made me laugh and cry. And I can get behind any Hindi film in which a father says of his single daughter: "She's financially independent, sexually independent." Bravo.
2015 · Hindi · Hindustan Times
This film is guaranteed to make you cry. But it will also fill you with hope. These amazing women will make you want to inhale life with a new ferociousness.
Hunterrr2.5/5
2015 · Hindi · Hindustan Times
Hunterrr runs for 141 minutes and feels even longer. That's just way too much time to spend on the life and emotions of a lech.
Badlapur3.5/5
2015 · Hindi · Hindustan Times
The supporting players — from Huma to Kumud Mishra — are terrific. But ultimately, Badlapur rests on the towering talent of Nawazuddin.
Hawaizaada2/5
2015 · Hindi · Hindustan Times
Vibhu has designed Hawaizaada to be an all-purpose vehicle that has romance, comedy and drama . But the writing is flat and the telling, clumsy. Ayushmann, who is in nearly every frame, trembles with fervour. Mithun matches him.
Kill Dil3/5
2014 · Hindi · Hindustan Times
Kil Dil doesn't have weight or enduring value. But while it lasts, Shaad makes sure you're having a good time.
2014 · Hindi · Hindustan Times
The Shaukeens improves substantially in the second half when it becomes more about Akshay and less about the buddies. In fact Akshay earns the film an extra star.
Haider3.5/5
2014 · Hindi · Hindustan Times
There is much in Haider that deserves a standing ovation The result is a film that is problematic and far too long, but also thrillingly ambitious and powerful. But I can guarantee that you will emerge from Haider shell-shocked.
Khoobsurat2.5/5
2014 · Hindi · Hindustan Times
Sadly, Shashanka displays none of the eccentric creativity that we saw in his earlier films, though he does create moments of charm.
Mary Kom3/5
2014 · Hindi · Hindustan Times
Despite its flaws, though, Mary Kom is a worthy attempt. The film has sincerity and has been crafted with care.
Raja Natwarlal2.5/5
2014 · Hindi · Hindustan Times
If you can get past the foolishness of the plot, director Kunal Deshmukhs film is mildly engaging. Emraan Hashmi plays Raja, a charming, street-smart hustler.Still, Raja Natwarlal isnt one of those actively awful films.
Mardaani3/5
2014 · Hindi · Hindustan Times
Post-interval, the story derails considerably. By the time we get to the climax, we are fully in avenging angel territory. And, just like in Singham Returns last week, the solutions suggested are problematic.
Mardaani3/5
2014 · Hindi · Hindustan Times
Post-interval, the story derails considerably. By the time we get to the climax, we are fully in avenging angel territory. And, just like in Singham Returns last week, the solutions suggested are problematic.
Singham Returns2.5/5
2014 · Hindi · Hindustan Times
The weakest link is the tedious romantic angle between Ajay and Kareena Kapoor, who plays his gluttonous girlfriend. Kareenas beauty is startling, but here shes not even attempting to act.
Kick2.5/5
2014 · Hindi · Hindustan Times
The first thing you should know about Kick is that it is an outrageously silly film.
Fugly2/5
2014 · Hindi · Hindustan Times
Now that's what I call Fugly. Despite the good intentions, this one is a misguided mess.
Fugly2/5
2014 · Hindi · Hindustan Times
Now that's what I call Fugly. Despite the good intentions, this one is a misguided mess.
Fugly2/5
2014 · Hindi · Hindustan Times
Now that's what I call Fugly. Despite the good intentions, this one is a misguided mess.
Fugly2/5
2014 · Hindi · Star World
Rahul Handas story begins with an intriguing suicide attempt and at least until interval, director Kabir Sadanand manages to keep you hooked. But post-interval, Fugly becomes entirely logic-free. Now thats what I call Fugly.
Filmistaan4/5
2014 · Hindi · Hindustan Times
Don't be put off by the name or the lack of stars. This is a lovely little film that will sneak into your heart.
Filmistaan4/5
2014 · Hindi · Star World ( Hindustan Times)
Filmistaan is a delightful film. It has heart, imagination and intelligence. Filmistaan is a celebration of our enduring love affair with Hindi cinema.
Holiday1/5
2014 · Hindi · Star World ( Hindustan Times)
Holiday – A Soldier is Never Off Duty, a remake of the Tamil blockbuster Thuppaki, is a profoundly moronic film. Without pause, it moves from one preposterous situation to another.
City Lights3/5
2014 · Hindi · Hindustan Times
Citylights is persuasive. It will work better for you if you haven't seen the original.
City Lights3/5
2014 · Hindi · Star World
Rajkummar alters not just his posture and accent but his inner being. He becomes the na¯ve, bewildered and ultimately desperate family man whose generous spirit is slowly crushed by the grinding wheels of an indifferent city.
Heropanti2/5
2014 · Hindi · Hindustan Times
Heropanti is designed to do exactly one thing - make us like Tiger Shroff and that it does exceedingly well.
Heropanti2/5
2014 · Hindi · Hindustan Times
Heropanti is designed to do exactly one thing - make us like Tiger Shroff and that it does exceedingly well.
Heropanti2/5
2014 · Hindi · Star World
Heropanti is designed to do exactly one thing – make us like Tiger Shroff and that it does exceedingly well.
Hawaa Hawaai3/5
2014 · Hindi · Hindustan Times
While Hawaa Hawaai isn't entirely satisfying, I still recommend that you see it. It is a timely reminder of the intractable horrors that children in this country face on a daily basis.
Mastram2/5
2014 · Hindi · Hindustan Times
There are so many ideas here about writing, sexual desire, fantasy, hypocrisy, the artist in the marketplace but they remain unexplored. Mastram is an opportunity lost.
Hawaa Hawaai3/5
2014 · Hindi · Star World ( Hindustan Times)
So while Hawaa Hawaai isnt entirely satisfying, I still recommend that you see it. It is a timely reminder of the intractable horrors that children in this country face on a daily basis. Im going with three stars.
Mastram2/5
2014 · Hindi · Star World
But instead of a layered film that explores Mastarams peculiar predicament, debutant director Akhilesh Jaiswal creates a curiously inert narrative.
Mastram2/5
2014 · Hindi · Star World
But instead of a layered film that explores Mastarams peculiar predicament, debutant director Akhilesh Jaiswal creates a curiously inert narrative.
2014 · Hindi · Star World
If good intentions were enough to make a good film, then Kya Dilli Kya Lahore would be a winner. Its a compelling idea with ineffectual execution. The plot might have made good theater but as cinema, its staggeringly tedious.
Samrat & Co.1/5
2014 · Hindi · Hindustan Times
Samrat & Co. is an intriguingly amateurish murder mystery in which Rajeev Khandelwal plays a Sherlock Holmes style detective. These are puzzles that even Samrat wouldn't be able to solve.
2014 · Hindi · Hindustan Times
Revolver Rani establishes Kangana Ranaut as the most fearless actress in Bollywood. After winning our hearts as the achingly na¯ve dumped bride in Queen, she does a 360-degree flip in this film.
Samrat & Co.1/5
2014 · Hindi · Star World ( Hindustan Times)
Samrat & Co. is an intriguingly amateurish murder mystery in which Rajeev Khandelwal plays a Sherlock Holmes style detective.
Dekh Tamasha Dekh3.5/5
2014 · Hindi · Hindustan Times
Dekh Tamasha Dekh offers a combination of farcical, funny and depressing. How many movies can you say that for?
Dekh Tamasha Dekh3.5/5
2014 · Hindi · Star World (Hindustan Times)
Dekh Tamasha Dekh, Feroz Abbas Khans second film, took me unawares.
2 States2.5/5
2014 · Hindi · Star World (Hindustan Times)
In the second half, 2 States falls apart. It becomes more contrived and unconvincingly twisted.
2014 · Hindi · Hindustan Times
Bhootnath Returns is unnecessarily bloated. It has far too much sermonising. The narrative is simplistic and naïve.
2014 · Hindi · Star World (Hindustan Times)
Bhootnath Returns is unnecessarily bloated. It has far too much sermonizing. The narrative is simplistic and na¯ve.
2014 · Hindi · Hindustan Times
Main Tera Hero is dumbed down by design. I have no issues with that. My problem is that the frenzied plot didn't deliver enough funny lines.
2014 · Hindi · Star World (Hindustan Times)
mostly, Main Tera Hero, is loud and tiring. The film is undemanding but also, deflating. You laugh sporadically but you leave the theater exhausted, instead of energized.
O Teri1.5/5
2014 · Hindi · Hindustan Times
Yes, its Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro reduced to noise and nonsense. Anupam Kher and Vijay Raaz ham. Pulkit Samrat follows in their footsteps. Bilal Amrohi displays little talent.
Youngistaan1/5
2014 · Hindi · Star World (Hindustan Times)
Every other year or so, Vashu produces a film in which Jackky stars. These vanity projects have been uniformly mediocre but their fifth film together, Youngistaan, sets a new standard of ridiculous.
Lakshmi3/5
2014 · Hindi · Hindustan Times
Honestly, I can't wholeheartedly recommend Lakshmi. In places, it's repulsive and yet, it demands to be seen.
Ragini MMS 22/5
2014 · Hindi · Hindustan Times
If instead of character and narrative, you're looking for a few cheap thrills, then Ragini MMS 2 might do the trick.
Ankhon Dekhi3.5/5
2014 · Hindi · Hindustan Times
Ankhon Dekhi is a lovely respite from the formulaic fare that clutters our multiplexes week after week. Make time for it.
2014 · Hindi · Hindustan Times
Gang of Ghosts is an exhausting and depressing experience. Depressing because this film could have been so much better.
Lakshmi3/5
2014 · Hindi · Star World (Hindustan Times)
Nagesh Kukunoors Lakshmi is a disturbing film, in both a good way and a bad way. Its gut-wrenching but gripping. But then, in the second half, Kukunoor takes the brutality to such an extreme that it stops having an impact.
Lakshmi3/5
2014 · Hindi · Star World (Hindustan Times)
Nagesh Kukunoors Lakshmi is a disturbing film, in both a good way and a bad way. Its gut-wrenching but gripping. But then, in the second half, Kukunoor takes the brutality to such an extreme that it stops having an impact.
2014 · Hindi · Star World (Hindustan Times)
Gang of Ghosts is an exhausting and depressing experience. Depressing because this film could have been so much better.The second half is so excruciating that I actually contemplated walking out.
Ragini MMS 22/5
2014 · Hindi · Star World (Hindustan Times)
The problem is that the characters are such insipid, low IQ cretins that you are hoping that the murderous chudail gets them soon. The writing is so sloppy that eventually it becomes unintentionally funny.
2014 · Hindi · Hindustan Times
Bewakoofiyaan is one of those films that isn't actively offensive or actively engaging. It just goes on, in a bland manner, until we hit happily ever after.
2014 · Hindi · Star World (Hindustan Times)
Toward the end of Bewakoofiyaan, Mohit, played by Ayushmann Khurrana, angrily declares: Enough of me and my life! My sentiments exactly.
Gulaab Gang2/5
2014 · Hindi · Hindustan Times
For a real dose of women empowerment, watch Gulabi Gang, a terrific documentary on Sampat Pal, which is still running in select theaters.
Total Siyapaa1.5/5
2014 · Hindi · Hindustan Times
There is much humor to be mined from our fraught relations with our neighbor but Total Siyapaa is an opportunity lost.
Total Siyapaa1.5/5
2014 · Hindi · Hindustan Times
There is much humor to be mined from our fraught relations with our neighbor but Total Siyapaa is an opportunity lost.
Queen3.5/5
2014 · Hindi · Hindustan Times
Ultimately Queen is Kangana's triumph. I left the theater thinking about Rani and how the rest of her life would pan out. It's not often you do that with a Bollywood character.
Gulaab Gang2/5
2014 · Hindi · Star World (Hindustan Times)
The result is an ineffectual and messy ode to women empowerment in which women, with nicely styled hair, maim, kill, fight elections and in between find the time to sing and dance.For a real dose of women empowerment, watch…
Total Siyapaa1.5/5
2014 · Hindi · Star World
There are a few superbly funny moments in Total Siyapaa, which is about the rocky romance between an Indian girl and a Pakistani boy. But few is the key word here.
Queen3.5/5
2014 · Hindi · Star World (Hindustan Times)
Queen is about the metamorphosis of Rani. Director Vikas Bahl, who has also co-written this delightful story, doesnt expend too much energy on plot. Nothing much happens.
2014 · Hindi · Hindustan Times
Shaadi Ke Side Effects is actually two films in one. The first half is a sparkling comedy, which traces the metamorphosis of happily married couple Sid and Trisha, ayed by Farhan Akhtar and Vidya Balan.
Gulabi Gang3.5/5
2014 · Hindi · Hindustan Times
Gulabi Gang is a fascinating portrait of the power of one. The documentary, Gulabi Gang is a record of an extraordinary women's movement started by the extraordinary Sampat Pal Devi in Uttar Pradesh in 2006.
Highway2.5/5
2014 · Hindi · Hindustan Times
Imtiaz skillfully creates moments that are at once, tender, funny and fragile. But my problem was that I simply didn't buy into the story.
Gulabi Gang3.5/5
2014 · Hindi · Star World ( Hindustan Times)
The documentary, Gulabi Gang is a record of an extraordinary womens movement started by the extraordinary Sampat Pal Devi in Uttar Pradesh in 2006.
Gulabi Gang3.5/5
2014 · Hindi · Star World ( Hindustan Times)
The documentary, Gulabi Gang is a record of an extraordinary womens movement started by the extraordinary Sampat Pal Devi in Uttar Pradesh in 2006.
Highway2.5/5
2014 · Hindi · Star World ( Hindustan Times)
Highway is a problematic film. Elements in it have great beauty – starting with Anil Mehtas cinematography. And yet, I left the theater, deeply dissatisfied. The film posits kidnapping as therapy.
Gunday3/5
2014 · Hindi · Hindustan Times
This masala mix works for the first half €” Ranveer and Arjun Kapoor are electric as Bikram and Bala, two Bangladeshi refugees who are inducted in childhood into a life of crime.
One by Two2/5
2014 · Hindi · Hindustan Times
Mid-way through One by Two, an exasperated ex-girlfriend screams at the still-besotted boyfriend whom she recently dumped: You are so boring. Aur toh aur tumhara naam bhi boring hai. I felt her pain.
One by Two2/5
2014 · Hindi · Star World (Hindustan Times)
Mid-way through One by Two, an exasperated ex-girlfriend screams at the still-besotted boyfriend whom she recently dumped: You are so boring. Aur toh aur tumhara naam bhi boring hai. I felt her pain.
Jai Ho2.5/5
2014 · Hindi · Hindustan Times
In all honesty, I'm confused about how to evaluate Jai Ho. Because it's not a film. It's a cartoon. So, to point out that the story is laughably ridiculous or that the characterisation has no depth seems churlish.
Jai Ho2.5/5
2014 · Hindi · Star World ( Hindustan Times)
In all honesty, Im confused about how to evaluate Jai Ho. Because its not a film. Its a cartoon. So to point out that the story is laughably ridiculous or that the characterization has no depth seems churlish.
Miss Lovely3/5
2014 · Hindi · Hindustan Times
I recommend that you see Miss Lovely. Yes, it is an acquired taste. But Ashim Ahluwalia's distinct and intriguing voice is one more sign of how fundamentally and excitingly the Hindi film topography is changing.
Miss Lovely3/5
2014 · Hindi · Star World ( Hindustan Times)
In places, I struggled to understand the narrative. And beyond a point, the lack of dramatic momentum was frustrating. Ashims characters are fascinating but in places, his telling is labored and self-conscious.
Dedh Ishqiya3/5
2014 · Hindi · TheFrontRow
There is a lovely running gag about the stages of love and a gorgeous climactic shoot-out. Best of all, the film gives us women who are unapologetically scheming and lusty. They break all the rules and get away with it.
Yaariyan1/5
2014 · Hindi · Hindustan Times
Its stuffed with banal but infectious songs that lodge themselves in your head like Yo! Yo! Honey Singh's aaj blue hai pani pani. But everything else in this film is a train-wreck.
Dedh Ishqiya3/5
2014 · Hindi · Hindustan Times
Director Abhishek Chaubeys new installment in the adventures of the lovable rogues – Khalujan and Babban – is rich in atmospherics and poetry. I also struggled with the Urdu – it was melodious but I wish I understood more of it.
Yaariyan1/5
2014 · Hindi · Star World( Hindustan Times)
Yaariyan is the spectacularly inept debut of Divya Khosla Kumar. This film is so bewilderingly bad that it hooks you – you keep watching just to see where the incoherent narrative will go next. The plot is foolish.
Dhoom 33/5
2013 · Hindi · TheFrontRow
So see Dhoom:3 but with your expectations at half-mast. It's not the popcorn thrill ride that I expected. There just isn't enough joy in it but Aamir and the stupendous action make this worth watching. I'm going with 3 stars.
Dhoom 33/5
2013 · Hindi · Hindustan Times
The big plot twist has been ripped off from Christopher Nolans The Prestige. So see Dhoom:3 but with your expectations at half-mast. Its not the popcorn thrill ride that I expected.
What the Fish0.5/5
2013 · Hindi · TheFrontRow
This could have been a fun romp but in the hands of director Gurmmeet Singh, it's an excruciating exercise with vapid characters, bewildering plot twists and dismal acting - even Dimple Kapadia has only one note - she cribs…
R… Rajkumar1.5/5
2013 · Hindi · Hindustan Times
. RRajkumar is ostensibly Prabhu Dhevas first non-remake Hindi film but youve seen it all before: a dialogue spouting hero his signature line is: silent hoja warna main violent ho jaunga; assorted buffoonish villains; and a…
Bullett Raja2.5/5
2013 · Hindi · Hindustan Times
Bullett Raja has flashes of fire but mostly it seems to be hobbled by a misguided sense of machismo. Everyone struts — including Vidyut Jamwal who makes an appearance as a dynamic cop — but no one goes anywhere.
2013 · Hindi · TheFrontRow
Singh Saab The Great is a singularly soul-sucking experience. It doesn't even work as unintentional comedy.
Gori Tere Pyaar Mein2.5/5
2013 · Hindi · TheFrontRow
...is fun as long as it sticks to the formula. The best thing about Gori Tere Pyaar Mein! is Imran who maintains an easy charm, even when he's adjusting to gobar and garibi.
2013 · Hindi · Star World ( Hindustan Times)
Early in Singh Saab The Great, a character asks: Kaun se zamane mein jee rahein hai aap? Exactly the question on my mind as I watched this film. Because director Anil Sharma and Sunny Deol still seem to be stuck in the 1980s.
Gori Tere Pyaar Mein2.5/5
2013 · Hindi · Hindustan Times
Gori Tere Pyaar Mein! is fun as long as it sticks to the formula. But in the second half, director Punit Malhotra, misguidedly moves into Ashutosh Gowarikar mode.
2013 · Hindi · TheFrontRow
Deepika and Ranveer make Goliyon Ki Raasleela Ram-leela worth watching.
Rajjo1/5
2013 · Hindi · TheFrontRow
The good thing about bad films is that sometimes they are so bad that they become good.
Rajjo1/5
2013 · Hindi · Front Row ( Hindustan Times)
The good thing about bad films is that sometimes they are so bad that they become good.
Rajjo1/5
2013 · Hindi · Front Row ( Hindustan Times)
The good thing about bad films is that sometimes they are so bad that they become good.
Rajjo1/5
2013 · Hindi · Front Row ( Hindustan Times)
The good thing about bad films is that sometimes they are so bad that they become good.
Satya 21.5/5
2013 · Hindi · TheFrontRow
Watching Satya 2 is like being bludgeoned. I say, stay at home and revisit the first film.
Satya 21.5/5
2013 · Hindi · Hindustan Times
This film has no connection either in quality or in narrative with the first. Only that here too, the lead is called Satya. Its morally specious and unintentionally comical.
Krrish 33.5/5
2013 · Hindi · TheFrontRow
... isn't a patch on the best superhero films made in Hollywood but it is a step forward for Bollywood.
Krrish 33.5/5
2013 · Hindi · TheFrontRow (Hindustan Times)
Krrish 3 is ambitious and exciting. Sadly, its also derivative, clumsy, convoluted and far too long. The two main flaws are the story and the music. The action is terrific but the special effects range from tacky to impressive.
Mickey Virus2/5
2013 · Hindi · TheFrontRow
The trouble is that writer-director Saurabh Varma makes this story so unnecessarily convoluted and long that by the time we have the great climactic reveal of who did what, we don't really care.
Mickey Virus2/5
2013 · Hindi · The Front Row ( Hindustan Times )
Somewhere buried deep inside Mickey Virus is an entertaining story about a lazy, computer hacker in Delhi who is enlisted by the cops to crack a complex multiple murder case.
Shahid3.5/5
2013 · Hindi · TheFrontRow
Ultimately however, Shahid is Raj Kumar's triumph. His Shahid has strength, anguish and a controlled anger but also real charm. His smile lights up the frame. See Shahid for him. I'm going with three and a half stars.
Shahid3.5/5
2013 · Hindi · The Front Row ( Star World)
Mehtas telling, especially in the first half, is laborious and I found myself getting restless. You might too. But thankfully Shahid gains momentum and urgency in the second half. Ultimately however, Shahid is Raj Kumars triumph.
Boss2.5/5
2013 · Hindi · Hindustan Times
The bad news is that Boss is essentially a cartoon designed to deify Akshay Kumar, so eventually the storyline must surrender to set-piece comedy and action sequences and absolutely forgettable songs that celebrate the mighty…
Besharam1/5
2013 · Hindi · TheFrontRow
The producers' money and the actors' time have already been wasted by Besharam. I recommend that you save both by skipping it. I'm going with one star.
Besharam1/5
2013 · Hindi · The Front Row ( Hindustan Times)
As I watched Besharam, I marveled at Abhinav Singh Kashyaps powers at pitching stories.
The Lunchbox4/5
2013 · Hindi · TheFrontRow
The Lunchbox is poignant and powerful. It will make you laugh and cry. And it will also make you hungry – I was dying to eat paneer kofta and bhindi when it finished.
The Lunchbox4/5
2013 · Hindi · Hindustan Times
The Lunchbox is my favorite love story of the year. Its sweet, sad and deeply aching.
Grand Masti0.5/5
2013 · Hindi · TheFrontRow
I can't think of a single reason why you should see this film.
Grand Masti0.5/5
2013 · Hindi · Hindustan Times
Every ten minutes or so, you hit a low point and think that this film cant possibly sink any more but director Indra Kumar and co-writer Milap Milan Zaveri surprise you. They lower the bar yet again.
2013 · Hindi · Hindustan Times
Shuddh Desi Romance loses steam in the second half — it's almost as if, suddenly, Manish and Jaideep didn't know where to take their story and characters. Also, I'm old school, so the ending left me dissatisfied.
John Day1.5/5
2013 · Hindi · TheFrontRow
Is this film more interesting than a documentary of the same actors having lunch? The answer is no.
Zanjeer1/5
2013 · Hindi · Hindustan Times
No actor can survive a train-wreck like this. Ramcharan is a superstar in Telugu cinema.
John Day1.5/5
2013 · Hindi · Hindustan Times
At one point, a character bites someones tongue off. I think its supposed to be dark and gritty. Its just tiresome. Naseer sleepwalks while Randeep snarls, growls and takes long, angry drags of cigarettes.
Satyagraha2/5
2013 · Hindi · Hindustan Times
If good intentions were enough to make good movies, Satyagraha would be a masterpiece. But the impact is diluted by a plot that randomly lurches from one event to the next. At over two and a half hours, it all becomes a slog. .
Madras Cafe3/5
2013 · Hindi · Hindustan Times
Watching Madras Cafe is both frustrating and satisfying. The thriller based against the backdrop of the Sri Lankan Civil War is, in equal parts, muddled and moving. There are sequences of power and eloquence.
2013 · Hindi · Hindustan Times
But Chennai Express plays neither to Rohits strengths nor to Shah Rukhs. Its a strangely sloppy mishmash of cheesy humor, half-hearted romance, half-baked emotion and head-banging action. But mostly the film is a slog.
Raanjhanaa3.5/5
2013 · Hindi · Hindustan Times
But for the first half, its also superbly entertaining. Kundan chases Zoya with the ardor of a true devotee. This love story is fantastical but these are characters we could know.
Fukrey3/5
2013 · Hindi · Hindustan Times
But the problem with Fukrey is that the characters and milieu are more engaging than the plot, which gets more convoluted and far-fetched as it thickens. By the climax, the writing becomes slack.
2013 · Hindi · Hindustan Times
Im not even going to attempt at recounting the plot because there isnt any. The Deols Dharmendra, Sunny and Bobby and director Sangeeth Sivan are attempting here to create an entertainer. Which means, anything goes.
2013 · Hindi · Hindustan Times
Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani, which liberally echoes DDLJ and every other major romance to come out of Bollywood in the last two decades.
Gippi2.5/5
2013 · Hindi · Star World ( Hindustan Times)
Gippi is an amiable but predictable coming-of-age story of a 14-year-old girl. But the trouble is that Nair, who has also written the story, doesnt go far enough. The milieu she creates is artificial and clich©d.
Go Goa Gone2.5/5
2013 · Hindi · Hindustan Times
Writer-directors Raj Nidimoru and Krishna D.K. deliver what their zany promos promised but only for half the film. Post interval, the film does a zombie on us it becomes dead, lumbering and tedious.
2013 · Hindi · Hindustan Times
Bombay Talkies is a unique experiment that works very well. Im going with four stars.
Shootout at Wadala2.5/5
2013 · Hindi · Star World ( Hindustan Times)
Sanjay effectively creates powerful set-pieces, including the climactic shootout at Wadala. The action is determinedly brutal one mans head is crushed in a gola-making machine.
Aashiqui 22.5/5
2013 · Hindi · Hindustan Times
The problem is that once we are invested in these people, Suri doesnt take the story much further. It becomes over-wrought, repetitive and ultimately, boring. The film however, never becomes more than the sum of its parts.
Ek Thi Daayan2.5/5
2013 · Hindi · Hindustan Times
Until the interval, debutant director Kannan Iyer had me pinned to my seat. There are moments here that made me jump. Konkona is deliciously wicked and at one point, I got so spooked that I closed my eyes.
Nautanki Saala!2.5/5
2013 · Hindi · Hindustan Times
Director Rohan Sippy is unable to fully retain the lightness and effervescence of the original. Nautanki Saala! is funny in parts but often it feels stretched and flat, like champagne without the fizz. Nautanki Saala!
2013 · Hindi · Star World (Hindustan Times)
Is any of this interesting? No. Neils conversion to cannibal is too tedious to even work as unintentional comedy. The story is ridiculous and the dialogue, foolish and stilted.
2013 · Hindi · Hindustan Times
The original film had a certain lightness of being. The remake is purposefully loud and inevitably, leaden. David and his writers, Renuka Kunzru and Farhad-Sajid, update it by making it in-your-face.
Himmatwala1/5
2013 · Hindi · Hindustan Times
There is no polite way to say this. Himmatwala is an excruciating experience. It begins with a close-up of a disco ball and its all downhill from there.
Aatma2/5
2013 · Hindi · Hindustan Times
Aatma is stilted, predictable and like most Bollywood horror films, unintentionally funny. You know that anyone who crosses Abhay will die so the only suspense is how it will happen.
Rangrezz2.5/5
2013 · Hindi · Hindustan Times
Rangrezz is an over-wrought melodrama, which has stray moments of power but is ultimately is too convoluted to be convincing.
2013 · Hindi · Star World (Hindustan Times)
Mere Dad ki Maruti is the sort of banal Punjabi comedy that the folks at Yashraj can churn out in their sleep. Mostly Mere Dad Ki Maruti is a tedious chase for a lost car through Chandigarh. The plot is limp. So are the laughs.
Jolly LLB3/5
2013 · Hindi · Hindustan Times
Parts of Jolly LLB are laugh out loud funny but underneath the humor is an angry critique of the legal system, which is so easily manipulated by the rich and so difficult to penetrate for the poor.
3G1/5
2013 · Hindi · Star World (Hindustan Times)
Yes 3G is one of those staggeringly inane horror films, which work as pure unintentional comedy. Neil Nitin Mukesh plays Sam and Sonal Chauhan plays his girlfriend Sheena.
2013 · Hindi · Hindustan Times
Saheb Biwi aur Gangster Returns just becomes more and more over-wrought and eventually, unconvincing.
The Attacks of 26/112.5/5
2013 · Hindi · Hindustan Times
The good news is that The Attacks of 26/11 is one of the better films Ram Gopal Varma has made in recent years. The bad news is that Varma’s last few films were duds like Department and Bhoot Returns so the bar is set very low.
Kai Po Che!4/5
2013 · Hindi · Hindustan Times
Abhisheks biggest success is that he and his writers have created three-full bodied characters – these boys with their towering ambitions and aching vulnerability, are people you and I know.
Murder 32/5
2013 · Hindi · Hindustan Times
Murder 3 picks up steam in the second half. Debutant director Vishesh Bhatt creates a palpable sense of claustrophobia and panic but the story is so silly that you can’t take it seriously.
ABCD2.5/5
2013 · Hindi · Hindustan Times
The first half of ABCD is mystifyingly dull. Dance films inevitably have predictable plots but here the problem is compounded by uniformly weak performances. Remo has selected dancers rather than actors.
Special 263.5/5
2013 · Hindi · Hindustan Times
Special 26 is the best Hindi film Ive seen this year. Inspired by a real-life heist in 1987, writer-director Neeraj Pandey constructs an elaborate cat and mouse chase between cops and robbers.
Vishwaroopam3/5
2013 · Tamil · Hindustan Times
I think it's worth watching Vishwaroop just to see Kamal Haasan in form, especially as the effeminate dance teacher.
David2/5
2013 · Hindi · Star World ( Hindustan Times)
Bejoy Nambiars David is a thing of beauty but sadly, not much else. The film tells the story of three Davids who are divided by decades and geographical distance but connected, rather unconvincingly I think, by destiny.
Race 22/5
2013 · Hindi · Hindustan Times
I went into Race 2 totally prepared to have a blast, but here's the shocker: The first half is just plain boring.
Inkaar2.5/5
2013 · Hindi · Hindustan Times
And yet, Inkaar remains half-baked. . It doesnt help that the other characters are so limp the firms foreign partner looks like Bob Christos long-lost brother.
2013 · Hindi · Hindustan Times
I am a little disappointed to report that Matru ki Bijlee ka Mandola didnt stir up any keen emotions in me. Parts of the film soar but many are saggy and ultimately I was just underwhelmed.
Table No. 212/5
2013 · Hindi · Hindustan Times
Table No. 21 is the sort of determinedly silly movie that can make fine actors like Paresh Rawal and Rajeev Khandelwal look foolish.
Dabangg 2No rating
2012 · Hindi · Hindustan Times
None of it matches the zing of the original. There wasn’t one line that stayed with me after the film.
Khiladi 7862/5
2012 · Hindi · Hindustan Times
All through, the funny bits were rare and mostly unintentional. Akshay swaggers above this messy material, which includes African-American characters and dancers in blackface. If I wasnt so exhausted, I would have been offended.
Talaash3/5
2012 · Hindi · Hindustan Times
To watch Talaash is to embark on a passionate love affair that ends in frustration because the object of your desire reveals itself to be shallow and depressingly ordinary. In short, a profound anti-climax.
2012 · Hindi · Hindustan Times
Son of Sardaar is exhausting, painfully loud and way too long, with too few laughs. These aren’t so much films as series of running gags, interspersed with action sequences, instantly forgettable songs and nonsensical dialogue.
2012 · Hindi · Hindustan Times
In any case, you don’t go to a Yash Chopra movie to delve into realism or the messiness of relationships.
Rush4/5
2012 · Hindi · TheFrontRow
Rush is gripping and deeply satisfying. I'm going with four stars and recommending that you see it.
Rush4/5
2012 · Hindi · Star World ( Hindustan Times)
The script by Peter Morgan delivers drama, complexity, suspense and thrills the racing sequences, in which we see the race from the point of view of the drivers, are staggering.
2012 · Hindi · Hindustan Times
Karan Johar's forte is excess. He creates fantastical worlds brimming with beautiful people and expensive things and yet anchors them in high emotion. His films work as both designer porn and soap opera.
Aiyyaa2/5
2012 · Hindi · Hindustan Times
Aiyyaa is a bewilderingly odd film. Rani is delightful as a woman in heat.She expertly manages to be both a simpleton and a seductress. She looks stunning and dances like a dervish. But the film can't match her performance.
English Vinglish3.5/5
2012 · Hindi · Hindustan Times
English Vinglish falters in the second half. The pace drops and Shashi's English class seems like an outtake of Mind Your Language, the successful television series about a motley group of people learning English.
OMG: Oh My God!2.5/5
2012 · Hindi · Hindustan Times
OMG Oh My God! is about something that touches all our lives - religion. It is a film about our relationship with God, how instead of being God-loving, we have become God-fearing.
Heroine2/5
2012 · Hindi · Hindustan Times
At one point in Heroine, a character asks: Iss glamour industry mein kaun fraud nahin hota. This film certainly is one.
Barfi!3/5
2012 · Hindi · Hindustan Times
This is a film made with love, bolstered by wonderfully etched vignettes, Ranbir Kapoor's stupendous performance and a gorgeous soundtrack by Pritam.
Joker1/5
2012 · Hindi · Hindustan Times
Joker testifies to the power of the star in Bollywood. It is staggeringly inept. I can’t imagine that it was persuasive even as a concept.Yet it got made, in all likelihood because Akshay Kumar said yes.
B.A. Pass2.5/5
2012 · Hindi · Hindustan Times
Working from a short story by Mohan Sikka, debutant director Ajay Bahl creates a film that starts out strong. B.A. Pass holds your interest as long as Bahl sticks to Sikkas darkly twisted story.
2012 · Hindi · Hindustan Times
Shirin Farhad Ki Toh Nikal Padi is a sweet but slight love story that is stretched so much that by the end, we no longer care if Shirin and Farhad live happily ever after or not.The first hour is bumpy but fun.
Ek Tha Tiger3/5
2012 · Hindi · Hindustan Times
Ek Tha Tiger is Salman Khans best film since Dabangg. But because his last two films were Ready and Bodyguard, the bar is not exactly high.
Jism 22/5
2012 · Hindi · Hindustan Times
But neither a feminine nor masculine gaze can combine intense passion with such a ridiculous story. For an erotic film, everyone talks way too much. Of course, we get love-making, Leone’s bare back and ample cleavage.
Cocktail3.5/5
2012 · Hindi · Hindustan Times
He reins in the melodrama, until the last half hour when emotions go ballistic and the plot gets needlessly convoluted, and the actors €” Saif Ali Khan, Deepika Padukone and Diana Penty €” bite into their roles.
Bol Bachchan2/5
2012 · Hindi · Hindustan Times
There is no attempt at plotting, storytelling, delineating a character, building coherence or following logic. Shettys only agenda is to give you a good time.So did I have a good time?
2012 · Hindi · Hindustan Times
Gangs of Wasseypur is by turns absorbing and frustrating. Watching it feels like gorging on too much good food, leaving you feeling more exhausted than satiated. But there is enough in the sound and fury to enjoy.
2012 · Hindi · Hindustan Times
Director and co-writer Kunal Kohli attempts here to create an epic romance, a meeting of the souls that transcends time. The concept is similar to Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s 2005 film Three Times, but the sensibilities are poles apart.
Shanghai4/5
2012 · Hindi · Hindustan Times
Writer-director Dibakar Banerjee and co-writer Urmi Juvekar tell this brutal story with minimal drama.
2012 · Hindi · Hindustan Times
I enjoy vulgarity, cheap lines and jokes with double meanings as much as the next person, but really, is this the best we can do?
2012 · Hindi · Hindustan Times
To all the directors, producers, actors who are inflicting eighties-style, low-IQ, deafeningly loud, unapologetically crass, mind-numbing movies on us, I just want to say: Don’t angry me! Don’t exhaust me! Don’t bludgeon me!.
Department2/5
2012 · Hindi · Hindustan Times
his films repeatedly return to the theme of power – who wields it, how they get it and how they inevitably lose it.
Ishaqzaade3/5
2012 · Hindi · Hindustan Times
I wonder if the Indian film ritual of intermission also functions as a creative road-block. Because so many fine films derail exactly there; I call it the curse of the second half.
Jannat 22.5/5
2012 · Hindi · Hindustan Times
Logic isnt a priority here. Deshmukh is creating an old-school Bollywood film with high drama, punchy dialogue, thunderous background music and villains who glare and maim with aplomb.
Vicky Donor3.5/5
2012 · Hindi · Hindustan Times
Vicky Donor is one of those rare Hindi films that work purely on the strength of writing and performances.
Housefull 22/5
2012 · Hindi · Hindustan Times
Housefull 2 has exactly the same mix of stars, foreign locations, farcical plot and spectacularly dim-witted comedy as the first Housefull.
Agent Vinod2.5/5
2012 · Hindi · Hindustan Times
Agent Vinod is also attempting to be too many things – a slick thriller to match Hollywood but also a cheeky homage to cheesy Bollywood movies.
Kahaani3.5/5
2012 · Hindi · HindustanTimes
Kahaani is a nifty thriller with an enjoyment quotient that is indirectly proportionate to how long you spend thinking about the plot.
Kahaani3.5/5
2012 · Hindi · Hindustan Times
The first-rate performances help steer it to shore - from Vidya Balan to Parambrata Chattopadhyay to Nawazuddin Siddiqui who plays a hard-nosed IB agent and Saswata Chatterjee who plays the insurance agent.
Makkhi4/5
2012 · Hindi · Hindustan Times
By the end, I was clapping and rooting for the fly. How many films can get you emotionally invested in an insect? Makkhi is a mad roller coaster ride that's worth taking.
Gattu3.5/5
2011 · Hindi · Hindustan Times
Gattu, directed by Rajan Khosa, is an effortlessly charming, bittersweet film about a little boy obsessed with kite-flyingThe film does become a little far-fetched as Gattu, an illiterate, continues to fool his teachers and spins…
Gattu3.5/5
2011 · Hindi · Hindustan Times
Gattu, directed by Rajan Khosa, is an effortlessly charming, bittersweet film about a little boy obsessed with kite-flyingThe film does become a little far-fetched as Gattu, an illiterate, continues to fool his teachers and spins…
Ready2/5
2011 · Hindi · NDTV
Ready should have just been called: Salman Khan. The film is essentially a one-man show by an actor, who doesnt act.
Shaitan3/5
2011 · Hindi · NDTV
Shaitan is the upgraded version of Anurag Kashyaps debut film Paanch, which was banned in 2001.Debutant director Bejoy Nambiar has an impressive grip on the material and his relatively unknown cast.
2011 · Hindi · NDTV
Pyaar Ka Punchnama, written and directed by debutant Luv Ranjan, starts out with some promise, echoing Dil Chahta Hai with a laid-back, buddy vibe but that evaporates as soon as the women appear.The plot is inert and the…
Shagird2.5/5
2011 · Hindi · NDTV
Shagird has moments of power and a rough, sweaty texture that throbs especially as the camera snakes through the bylanes of Old Delhi. The story isnt startling or new.
Stanley Ka Dabba3.5/5
2011 · Hindi · NDTV
Through this slim story, Gupte creates a poignant and piercing portrait of childhood and school days: the bond between friends, the bond children have with teachers, how swiftly and cruelly a childs imagination can be crushed and…
Ragini MMS1.5/5
2011 · Hindi · NDTV
There are too many things wrong with Ragini MMS – the jump-cuts are often jarring, there are no subplots, it abounds in all cliches of the horror genre, though the performance of the lead pair is convincing, the others are bad…
Luv Ka The End1.5/5
2011 · Hindi · NDTV
I walked out of the movie depressed. If this is really what the youth wants, we should be afraid, very afraid.But largely, Luv Ka the End is uncomfortably icky, tediously wannabe and depressingly homophobic.
Haunted1.5/5
2011 · Hindi · NDTV
Formulaic horror tropes – mist, screeching doors, books that fall by themselves and blaring background music that insists that you be scared.
I Am3/5
2011 · Hindi · NDTV
But despite the good intentions and solid performances, I Am works only in fits and spurts. The screenplay, co-written by Onir, Merle Kroeger and Urmi Juvekar, often feels clunky and unwieldy.
Chalo Dilli2/5
2011 · Hindi · NDTV
This could have been reasonably good fun if the characters and situations were even half-way interesting. But Shashant, working from a screenplay by Arshad Sayed, doesnt give us much to go on.
2011 · Hindi · NDTV
Shor in the City is a terrific film. Its surprising and disturbing and has a vein of rich, dark humor coursing through it.
Dum Maaro Dum2.5/5
2011 · Hindi · NDTV
Dum Maaro Dum has all the ingredients of crackling entertainment: This is one film that should soar but sadly it never quite takes flight.
Teen Thay Bhai1.5/5
2011 · Hindi · NDTV
Debutant director Mrighdeep Singh Lamba strains hard to make you laugh – Teen Thay Bhai includes everything from fart jokes to a purposefully loud Ram Leela – but I barely smiled. I'm going with one and a half star.
Thank You1.5/5
2011 · Hindi · NDTV
I can assure you that my ego was not boosted. In fact my brains were battered to pulp and my eardrums are still recovering from Pritam's cacophonous sound-track. I'm going with one and a half star.
Zokkomon1.5/5
2011 · Hindi · NDTV
Childrens films are in a pretty abysmal state in our country and Im afraid that Zokkomon, the new Disney superhero movie, has lowered the bar even further.The film is derivative, relentlessly foolish and staggeringly boring.
Game2/5
2011 · Hindi · NDTV
At one point in Game, Kangna Ranaut, playing Sia, an officer with something called the International Vigilance Squad, exasperatedly asks: What the bloody hell is going on?
F.A.L.T.U.1.5/5
2011 · Hindi · NDTV
Debutant director Remo DSouzas F.A.L.T.U is a singularly low IQ reworking of the 2006 Justin Long comedy Accepted, about a slacker who isnt accepted into any college and so he creates his own.The first half of F.A.L.T.U is spent…
Yeh Faasley1.5/5
2011 · Hindi · NDTV
Yeh Faasley is the torturously long and convoluted story of a young girl unravelling her mother’s mysterious death.Arunima begins to investigate and finds herself torn between her love for her father and her duty to her dead…
Tanu Weds Manu2.5/5
2011 · Hindi · NDTV
Why should you watch Tanu Weds Manu? For R Madhavan who will win you heart as a sweet lovable NRI doctor Manu who has the misfortune of falling in love with a Kanpur-girl Tanu (Kangna Ranaut) who not only rejects him as a suitor…
7 Khoon Maaf2.5/5
2011 · Hindi · NDTV
Vishal loosely tethers his tale to reality television, radio and newspaper headlines reveal which year we are in – but mostly this fantastical story happens in a dark Neverland.
2011 · Hindi · NDTV
True to its name, Kaccha Limboo is an unripened film. Director Sagar Ballary tosses many ideas together but doesnt let them mature.
2011 · Hindi · NDTV
Writer-director Sudhir Mishras Yeh Saali Zindagi is the most twisted love story youll see this year.
2011 · Hindi · NDTV
Dil Toh Baccha Hai Ji has an interesting story but the characters and situations aren't fleshed out enough. There is an inherent clumsiness and in places the film feels long and leaden.
Patiala House2.5/5
2011 · Hindi · NDTV
Patiala House is the best work director Nikhil Advani and Akshay Kumar have done recently.
Turning 302/5
2011 · Hindi · NDTV
Turning 30, written and directed by debutant Alankrita Shrivastava, wants to be a s**y, insightful, tough-talking chick-flick think a desi Bridget Jones Diary or S** and the City.
Yamla Pagla Deewana2.5/5
2011 · Hindi · NDTV
Here Karnik creates a broad, largely nonsensical narrative that allows each one to play up his image and make fun of it.Each one gets to do everything comedy, fights, item numbers and for good measure, a few emotional scenes as…
2011 · Hindi · NDTV
The Jessica Lall murder was a watershed event and Gupta uses this rich material to create a film that is in places, powerful and moving. But its also loud, simplistic and somewhat schizophrenic in tone.
2010 · Hindi · NDTV
In Tees Maar Khan, everyone is overacting as though life depends on it. There is a lot of screaming, grimacing and heaving. Tees Maar Khan springs to life in its song sequences.
No Problem1/5
2010 · Hindi · NDTV
No Problem is so staggeringly brain dead and relentlessly tedious that it makes Anees Bazmees earlier comedies, Singh is Kinng and Welcome look like classics.
2010 · Hindi · NDTV
The love story of two wedding planners in Delhi, Shruti and Bittoo, played by Anushka Sharma and Ranveer Singh, has a charm and sweetness that’s been missing from YRF movies for many moons now.
Phas Gaye Re Obama3.5/5
2010 · Hindi · NDTV
Phas Gaye Re Obama is one of those small films that have zero face value but provide crackling entertainment if youre brave enough to venture in. Unfortunately, Subhash cant sustain the energy in the second half.
2010 · Hindi · NDTV
Rakta Charitra 1 had an urgency that kept the narrative moving despite the clumsy voice-over and mind-numbing violence. The sequel has some powerful scenes but lacks cohesion.
2010 · Hindi · NDTV
In fact up to the interval, the film totally lacks a pulse. Thankfully, the action jump-starts the narrative.The second half has more urgency and momentum and climaxes in the inevitably tragic but rousing finale.
2010 · Hindi · NDTV
Break Ke Baad, co-written and directed by debutant Danish Aslam, starts off well enough.Its not the most original scenario but Renuka Kunzru, who has done the dialogue and screenplay, makes it crackle.
Guzaarish3/5
2010 · Hindi · NDTV
Guzaarish is the kind of film that demands that we create a separate category for it€”a two and three-quarter rating perhaps. Because there is much to admire here: the film is beautifully shot by Sudeep Chatterjee.
2010 · Hindi · NDTV
Dunno Y… Na Jaane Kyon is a film that defies description. Nothing I say can fully convey to you the experience of actually watching it.
Hisss0.5/5
2010 · Hindi · NDTV
Before you venture into Hisss, ask yourself, are you ready to see Mallika Sherawat make love to a snake. It slithers in between her legs and there is even a bit of tongue action.
2010 · Hindi · NDTV
There is a sliver of a story here but Abbas has translated it into a clumsy film that never gets off the ground. The scenes have a strange, stagey awkwardness, almost like a bad television serial.
Rakht Charitra2.5/5
2010 · Hindi · NDTV
This film is part one of this horrifically fascinating story, which illustrates the heart of darkness that constitutes politics in India.
Ramayana: The Epic2.5/5
2010 · Hindi · NDTV
Debutant director Chetan Desai gives us impressive visuals, grand battles and perhaps Indias first Lord Ram with six-pack abs. But the plodding screenplay undermines these efforts.
Knock Out1.5/5
2010 · Hindi · NDTV
In Knock Out, writer-director Mani Shankar takes the 2003 thriller Phone Booth and marries it with a plot about getting back approximately Rs 60 lakh crore that corrupt politicians have siphoned out of India and stored in Swiss…
2010 · Hindi · NDTV
Do Dooni Chaar has something you dont see often in the movies these days: grace. There is an inherent niceness and decency in this story of a middle class family struggling to upgrade from a scooter to a car.
Crook1.5/5
2010 · Hindi · NDTV
Crook is a film so outrageously silly that you have to wonder if the makers meant it as a spoof.In fact, in the first half, the racism angle seems like an after- thought.The Bhatts Mukesh and Mahesh have a long tradition of…
2010 · Hindi · NDTV
Anjaana Anjaani is about an unlikely romance between two unhappy people who meet when both try to kill themselves by jumping off the same bridge.Through the course of the film, they give suicide a few more tries.
Aakrosh2.5/5
2010 · Hindi · NDTV
Aakrosh, directed by Priyadarshan and co-written by Bhatt and Akash Khurana, is a faithful remake of Alan Parkers Oscar-nominated drama Mississippi Burning.Aakrosh stays on track as long as Priyadarshan stays faithful to…
Mirch2.5/5
2010 · Hindi · NDTV
Mirch is a s**y idea that doesnt quite come to fruition. Inspired from sources as varied as the Panchatantra and Boccaccios Decameron, writer-director Vinay Shukla strings together four stories focusing on the complicated…
Well Done Abba2.5/5
2010 · Hindi · NDTV
There are many good things in Well Done Abba. Benegal creates a darkly comic theater of the absurd, which indicts every level of government from the irrigation minister to the local sarpanch who attests that she has tasted the…
Dabangg3/5
2010 · Hindi · NDTV
Chulbul Pandey, co-written by writer-director Abhinav Kashyap and enacted by Salman Khan, is the most thunderously crackling character I’ve seen in a Bollywood film in months.
2010 · Hindi · Hindustan Times
Yes, the film is over-wrought, melodramatic and designed as pulp fiction. But it's intermittently fun.
Kites3/5
2010 · Hindi · NDTV
The second half of Kites has way too much of the son who chases his fianc©e and her new lover over stunningly stark new Mexico landscapes.
Badmaash Company1.5/5
2010 · Hindi · NDTV
Badmaash Company is a staggeringly tedious film, which takes two hours and twenty three minutes to give us the moral science lesson that honesty is the best policy.The first half of Badmaash Company is dull but somewhat coherent.
Housefull2/5
2010 · Hindi · NDTV
In Housefull, director Sajid Khan has only one purpose: he wants to make you laugh. Does he accomplish this? Not often enough.
Apartment1.5/5
2010 · Hindi · NDTV
Apartment is a bargain basement remake of Barbet Schroeders 1992 thriller Single White Female. Director Jagmohan Mundhra isnt looking for factual accuracy here. He only wants to create a somewhat titillating, suspense thriller.
City of Gold2.5/5
2010 · Hindi · NDTV
Mahesh Manjrekars City of Gold is a frustratingly inconsistent movie. Some scenes have immense power. There are a few strong performances and at the films core, is a well-intentioned rage at the plight of Mumbais mill workers.
Phoonk 22/5
2010 · Hindi · NDTV
The first half of the film is all atmospherics and the family making stilted conversation. The action only begins when Madhu gets serious and bodies start piling-up.
Prince2/5
2010 · Hindi · NDTV
Prince is the funniest Bollywood movie I’ve seen this year. I laughed so hard that my sides hurt.
2010 · Hindi · NDTV
At the end of Hum Tum aur Ghost, a character declares: kisi ne sahi kaha hai, love conquers all. Not quite.
2010 · Hindi · NDTV
Atithi Tum Kab Jaoge, based on a short story by the noted satirist Sharad Joshi, is exactly that: a short story stretched into a movie..Writer-director Ashwini Dheer manages to infuse some fun into this But mostly, Atithi feels…
Road, Movie3/5
2010 · Hindi · NDTV
Road, Movie is director Dev Benegal’s love letter to cinema. It’s a whimsical and charming celebration of the movies. Be warned: the film is slow and in parts, clunky and underwritten.
Teen Patti1.5/5
2010 · Hindi · NDTV
I don’t know much about math but I can safely say that in all probability you will not enjoy this film. Teen Patti is a train-wreck of a movie. It’s incoherent, lengthy and worst of all, agonisingly pretentious.
2010 · Hindi · NDTV
Debutant writer-director Vijay Lalwani creates some seriously creepy moments here. He successfully transforms an ordinary telephone into a malevolent instrument.
Click1.5/5
2010 · Hindi · NDTV
How hard can it be to make a reasonably diverting horror film if all youre doing is copying? Well, if youre Sangeeth Sivan, the answer is: very hard.
2010 · Hindi · NDTV
Toh Baat Pakki is the sort of homely family drama that Sooraj Barjatya might have made on a bad day, about a decade ago.
2010 · Hindi · NDTV
My Name is Khan is a film made with sincerity and sweat, ambition and conviction. It grapples with the most urgent and fraught issue facing humanity: religion.
Striker2.5/5
2010 · Hindi · NDTV
Striker is the kind of film that fills you with regret. There is skilful direction here, some nicely etched moments and commendable performances and yet the film never gathers enough momentum to make an impact.
Ishqiya3.5/5
2010 · Hindi · NDTV
I know its only January but I think its safe to say that Ishqiya is the most crackling film youll see this year.
Rann2/5
2010 · Hindi · NDTV
Raan is poorly written, badly researched, and deafeningly sensationalist. Rann had the potential to be powerful drama but Varma and his writer Rohit G.
Veer2.5/5
2010 · Hindi · NDTV
Salmans supersized presence lifts the silliest scenes. But eventually, even his ripped muscles sag under the weight of this bloated epic. Running at over two and a half hours, Veer just goes on and on.
Dhobi Ghat3/5
2010 · Hindi · NDTV
If you are willing to have patience, Dhobi Ghat comes together nicely. It has a poetry and melancholy that stays with you. I recommend that you give it a shot.
Dhobi Ghat3/5
2010 · Hindi · NDTV
If you are willing to have patience, Dhobi Ghat comes together nicely. It has a poetry and melancholy that stays with you. I recommend that you give it a shot.
2010 · Hindi · NDTV
Chance Pe Dance tries to combine a dance movie with a Bollywood-cinderella story and comes up empty-handed.This is a dance film without one memorable dance track. But the biggest let-down is the script.
Hide & Seek2/5
2010 · Hindi · NDTV
The story, written by producer Apoorva Lakhia, is your standard-issue B-grade slasher film that Hollywood churns out by the dozens. Think of I Know What You Did Last Summer or Valentine.
2010 · Hindi · NDTV
Dulha Mil Gaya is a film caught in a time warp both literally and figuratively.
Pyaar Impossible!1.5/5
2010 · Hindi · NDTV
Pyaar Impossible is one of those superbly shallow films that manages to offend you on every level – as a viewer, as a woman, as a mother.
2009 · Hindi · NDTV
...it is up to Ranbir to carry Rocket Singh over its limitations and he rises to the challenge exceedingly well.
Paa3.5/5
2009 · Hindi · NDTV
But Balki’s real triumph as a writer is the character of Auro. There is no trace of self-pity about him. He’s witty, charming and pretty acidic when he wants to be.
De Dana Dan2/5
2009 · Hindi · NDTV
The movie starts out funny but gradually becomes more and more exhausting. The film sticks to what seems to have become the standard formula for Bollywood comedies.
Kurbaan2.5/5
2009 · Hindi · NDTV
Kurbaan, produced by Karan Johar and directed by Rensil DSilva, constructs this unimaginably tortured situation and then squanders it.
Tum Mile2/5
2009 · Hindi · NDTV
Tum Mile, ostensibly Bollywood’s first disaster movie is superbly silly.Firstly, there simply isn’t enough disaster here.
2009 · Hindi · NDTV
Ajab Prem Ki Gazab Kahani, a comedy set in a comic book universe, is a frustratingly uneven film. Some of it is genuinely funny and delightful and some of it is repetitive, and annoyingly tedious.
Blue3/5
2009 · Hindi · NDTV
So, what is the end result of all this money and talent? An incredibly dim-witted underwater thriller that has the most unintentionally hilarious climax since Imran Khan survived a bullet to the chest in Luck .Clearly Anthony…
Acid Factory2/5
2009 · Hindi · NDTV
Verma and his action director Tinnu Verma choreograph a few high-adrenalin action sequences including one in which cars explode like popcorn I stopped counting at 10.But there is nothing that you havent seen before.
Wake Up Sid3/5
2009 · Hindi · NDTV
The pacing in the first half is very slow. Towards interval, the film gathers an emotional momentum but afterward it becomes slack again.
2009 · Hindi · NDTV
Do Knot Disturb is exhaustingly bad. Once upon a time, the combination of producer Vashu Baghnani, director David Dhawan and actor Govinda was short-hand for mindless but riotously funny comedy.
Dil Bole Hadippa!2.5/5
2009 · Hindi · NDTV
What saves Dil Bole… from being a total write off is Rani Mukherjee. The actress, looking better than she has in years, pours her soul into Veera Kaur.
Chintu Ji3.5/5
2009 · Hindi · NDTV
You may or may not know that a film called Chintu ji is playing at a theatre near you this week.
Kaminey4/5
2009 · Hindi · NDTV
Kaminey is the best Bollywood film Ive seen this year. Its an audacious, original rollercoaster ride. Written and directed by Vishal Bharadwaj, Kaminey requires patience and attention but the pay off is more than worth it.
A Wednesday!No rating
2008 · Hindi · NDTV
A Wednesday is provocative theatre. Its message is urgent and relevant but also disturbing and dangerous. The film is a compelling response to our terror-filled times but it will polarise viewers many will applaud.
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