34 reviews of Indian films, average rating 2.6/5.
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Source profilePhoto: Film Critics Guild member directory. Resized for display. Photo sourceHindi 2.58/5 (26)Malayalam 3/5 (2)Telugu 2.75/5 (2)English 2.75/5 (2)Tamil 3/5 (2)
2026 · Hindi · Mint
Of the many musical gags in Udta Teer, one made me surprisingly wistful. Agent Vikrant (Ayushmann Khurrana) watching the video for A.R. Rahman’s ‘Maa Tujhe Salaam’ and becoming emotional is intended as parodic patriotism.
2025 · Malayalam · Mint
Brahmastra: Part One—Shiva cost 400 crore rupees. Game Changer cost about the same. Adipurush is estimated between 500 and 700 crore. So much spent, so little to show for it.
2025 · Hindi · Mint
What might Aamir Khan’s last decade-and-a-half have been like had he not done 3 Idiots? I’d imagine his fans, and maybe the man himself, would look at the 2009 film as a positive turning point.
2025 · Malayalam · Mint
Five skinny dudes turn up at the Alappuzha gym and announce that they want to learn boxing. The man at the desk says, that’ll be a thousand in advance, plus monthly fees. The boys murmur about not being able to afford it.
2024 · Telugu · Mint
There’s little a film can do to hide the fact that its makers haven’t thought things through. Bhaira (Saif Ali Khan) and his gang of semi-aquatic killers are waiting for their tormentor, Devara (N.T. Rama Rao Jr), to appear.
2024 · Hindi · Mint
Watching Kill was a draining physical experience. Sometimes I found myself sitting weirdly, legs tangled, heart racing. Whenever the film paused for breath, I was reminded to catch mine.
2024 · English · Mint
Mad Max films might be shiny and chrome now, but they’re still exploitation films at heart (character names includes Rictus Erectus, Scabrous Scrotus and Piss Boy).
2024 · Hindi · Mint
At my screening of Srikanth, the first three rows were taken up by children on a school trip. I won’t say they were rivetted throughout; there was a lot of squealing and shushing and bouncing in seats.
2023 · Telugu · Mint
“Violence violence violence,” Rocky says in Prashanth Neel’s K.G.F. Chapter 2 (2022). “I don’t like it.” It’s funny because it’s so untrue.
2023 · Hindi · Mint
In life, as in cinema, timing is everything. A couple of geniuses in my early morning screening of Adipurush were there for the express purpose of shouting ‘Jai Shri Ram’.
2023 · Hindi · Mint
Can we all agree that Hindi films have been looking just terrible lately? I’m not expecting Dil Se; even something framed and shot and designed with a little bit of style—Vikram Vedha, for instance—is all too rare now.
2022 · Hindi · Mint
The first kill in Monica, O My Darling had me chuckling with delight. In a control room of a robotics factory, engineer Gaurav (Sukant Goel) is watching a video of Shalu (Zayn Marie Khan), the woman he pines for.
2022 · Hindi · Mint
I could sense it coming, but it was still a shock when Ram Setu went there.
2022 · Hindi · Mint
Jugjugg Jeeyo starts efficiently, collapsing the romance of Kukoo (Varun Dhawan) and Naina (Kiara Advani) into a musical number, before skipping ahead five years, with the couple shivering on a street in Toronto, on the verge of…
2021 · English · Mint
Multiverse is memories. In the most basic sense, it asks you to spend your emotional capital from one realm in another.
2021 · Hindi · Mint
Patriotism is rarely subtle in reality, and almost never onscreen. The makers of Shershaah must show that, even as a schoolboy, Vikram Batra loved his country and wanted to serve in the army.
2020 · Hindi · Mint
The hidden cost of Prabhu Deva dancing is Prabhu Deva saying things. The owner of a London restaurant, he’s trying to get rival Indian and Pakistani dance crews to team up. “In physics, two negatives make a positive,” he says.
2020 · Hindi · Mint
In Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy’s Oscar-winning 2012 documentary short, Saving Face, a Pakistani acid attack survivor returns to the room where her life was destroyed.
2020 · Hindi · Mint
The flipside of all the racial stereotyping in recent Hindi historical films is that the antagonists are turning out more interesting than the heroes.
2019 · Hindi · Mint
In the last few years, Salman Khan has headlined films that are, by his standards, relatively high-concept. But he ends the decade as he began it – with an unconscionably silly action film.
2019 · Tamil · Mint
Early on in Thiagarajan Kumararaja’s Super Deluxe, three adolescent boys visit a second-hand DVD store. For someone who sells cheap knock-offs in plastic packets, the store-owner has suspiciously good taste.
2018 · Hindi · Mint
The year ends as it began, with an unhinged Ranveer Singh performance in a film that really needs it.
2018 · Hindi · Mint
When Sanju broke for an interval, I hurried out to buy that cup of coffee without which a 160-minute film feels like, well, a 160-minute film.
2018 · Tamil · Mint
Kaala is a film built on juxtapositions. Hari (Nana Patekar) and Kaala (Rajinikanth) aren’t just antagonist and protagonist, they are opposed in every way possible.
2017 · Hindi · Mint
While still on the plane, Raja finds himself fondling passengers, his actions dictated by his proximity to Prem (who’s playing piano).
2017 · Hindi · Mint
Nawazuddin Siddiqui is at his scene-stealing best in Rahul Dholakia's bootlegger film
2016 · Hindi · Mint
'Dangal' bends a little to accommodate its superstar, but has plenty of charm and grit
2016 · Hindi · Mint
'Rustom' closely mirrors the Nanavati case but fails to capture its complexities
2015 · Hindi · Mint
A taut film on the Noida double homicide, built around an exceptional screenplay
2015 · Hindi · Mint
Nawazuddin Siddiqui shines in a brilliantly orchestrated PR exercise for the star of the filmSalman Khan
2014 · Hindi · TimeOut
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2014 · Hindi · TimeOut
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2014 · Hindi · TimeOut
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2010 · Hindi · Mint
In the last few years, Salman Khan has headlined films that are, by his standards, relatively high-concept. But he ends the decade as he began it – with an unconscionably silly action film.
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