Shalini Langer reviews
24 reviews of Indian films, average rating 2.0/5.
The Love Hypothesis moview review: Tom Bateman is tall and handsome, but like all good love stories, he must also be cussed and stuck-up, and it seems too contrived.
Read the full reviewFor 'Bullett Raja', the extra 't' for emphasis, is a potboiler with little pretensions to realism but much too close a connection with Dhulia to entirely jettison it too.
Read the full reviewHope Aur Hum doesn't believe in subtlety when it comes to drumming home its message of old giving way to the new, saddling Naseeruddin Shah with the burden of making audiences hope that, surely, there is something better around…
Read the full reviewDhawan Jr hasn't learnt a lesson from Papa Dhawan on how to make you laugh in spite of you. He unleashes a Desi Boyz holding everything in spite.
Read the full reviewPunit Malhotra did alright with his easygoing, easily forgotten ‘I Hate Luv Storys’.
Read the full reviewIn this "notorious true story of the Kray twins" — the gangster brothers who briefly fancied themselves as kings of London in the '60s — the knockout punch isn't dealt by Tom Hardy raised to the power 2.
Read the full reviewInspiration Charles Dickens is just the first casualty. Fitoor spares no one, not Kashmir, not Delhi, not London, not Kashmiris, and not even poor Pakistan, which somehow finds its way into this tale essentially about love…
Read the full review1920 London review: An infinitesimal number, hopefully, do so chasing an "aatma" that resides in a locket in this Sharman Joshi, Meera Chopra starrer.
Read the full reviewGod who may be mad, an Anupam Kher who lives in a haveli a Muslim woman claims is hers, and a Kalawati who exists only in dreams.
Read the full reviewRock On 2 was all about a generation, about love, about growing up, even chasing dreams. But this time round, Farhan Akhtar, Shraddha Kapoor, Arjun Rampal and Purab Kohli film has other plans in place.
Read the full reviewWajah Tum Ho movie review: Murder and rape, bosoms and hairdos and an unintentional critique of how television news function, Wajah Tum Ho is an unruly mess.
Read the full reviewAs is the bane of many a Hindi film, High Jack repeats one joke too many, and in seeking an ending where its characters all look good in that much-told rich-vs-poor tale, does ultimate injustice to them.
Read the full reviewNo doubt it's great to see a film about two old people. But we have seen both Amitabh Bachchan and Rishi Kapoor in that avatar in better films (Piku especially, and in Kapoor & Sons) before this.
Read the full reviewPaltan movie review: J P Dutta's Paltan doesn’t allow JP Dutta his usual blood and gore and glory of war.
Read the full reviewNila Madhab Panda gives us a film about urban wretchedness in easily digestible drawing-room gollops.
Read the full reviewThe film, however, runs aground quite early on, trying to stretch its premise of a psychological thriller too thin. The slow pace, when you may have caught on what is happening, can seem an exasperating indulgence then.
Read the full reviewSome good actors have lent their names to this mess, for what can't be any other reason than money and the hits somehow against Anees Bazmee's name.
Read the full reviewUunchai review: A bit fewer of several stretches towards the second half where the film meanders into more than one man-made crises, and this Uunchai would have been mission truly accomplished.
Read the full reviewBut for a while, The Ghazi Attack shows us glimpses of a crisis-at-sea film it could have been. However, there are too many Pakistanis to slay, and too many torpedoes to fire, to care for niceties.
Read the full reviewHowever, ultimately, How to Train Your Dragon is a trip down a familiar memory lane.
Read the full reviewWhile Rani Mukerji is good as always, the actors who play the students are also natural and without any artifice, with the film cleverly dodging stereotypes just when you suspect one around the corner.
Read the full reviewFor a long time, Bhool Chuk Maaf looks and feels like the poor man's Brahmastra. Yet, this need not have been such a stew of Ghat meets Groundhog Day.
Read the full reviewDespite the many, many characters Dhurandhar introduces to give us a sense of Lyari's power, crime, political and family dynamics, the plot is fairly comprehensible.
Read the full reviewthe film comes alive in parts. Especially between Saif and Rani, who are trying to kindle the old Bunty-Babli spark; between the two Buntys and Bablis as they try to outsmart each other; and between the lines when it surprisingly…
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