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  Gunjan Saxena: The Kargil Girl Movie Review: Set-piece biopic manages to regale

  August 13, 2020 14:31 IST

  Gunjan Saxena's life unfolds as a set-piece biopic, played out to a pattern. The approach has its advantage. When your aim is to inspire with the story of an achiever who triumphed against all od...

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  Shakuntala Devi Movie Review: Vidya Balan starrer adds up to one-time watch

  July 31, 2020 11:23 IST

  Swedish auteur Ingmar Bergman in his 1978 classic, Autumn Sonata, set up an enchanting conflict of emotions between a renowned classical pianist and her rather average daughter, who stifles beneath th...

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  Dil Bechara Movie Review: Sushant Singh Rajput's last film strucks the right chord among viewers

  July 25, 2020 10:53 IST

  Let us just pretend I am not dying. That line does become more than a filmi dialogue when Sushant Singh Rajput utters it at one point. It sounds eerie, is ironic given the sadness it exudes and, in re...

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  Breathe: Into the Shadows review: Abhishek Bachchan's digital debut is a muddled web series

  July 10, 2020 21:48 IST

  The review is based on the first six episodes of Breathe: Into the Shadows Amazon Prime Video's latest offering Breathe: Into The Shadows is heavier on star quotient than its predecessor but...

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  Gulabo Sitabo Review: An easy-breezy film by Shoojit Sircar with performances extraordinaire

  June 12, 2020 20:57 IST

  Gulabo Sitabo Review From the word go, Gulabo Sitabo gives you those vibes that only director Shoojit Sircar and writer Juhi Chaturvedi's collaboration can bring. If you have watched the director...

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  Extraction Movie Review: Chris Hemsworth, Randeep Hooda's film is an old-school action fest

  April 24, 2020 17:31 IST

  'Avengers' director duo Anthony and Joe Russo, who co-produce this film with Hemsworth and action choreographer-turned-filmmaker Sam Hargrave, have gone for more than just locations whi...

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  Angrezi Medium Movie Review: Irrfan Khan, Deepak Dobriyal shine in aimless film

  March 12, 2020 15:22 IST

  Homi Adajania's follow-up to Saket Chaudhary's 2017 comedy hit "Hindi Medium" is a standalone story that bears no link with the first film by way of plot or characters and is, quit...

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  'Baaghi 3' movie review: The Tiger Shroff-starrer has stellar action but defies logic

  March 06, 2020 16:27 IST

  Slo-mo walks are cool; unrealistic action sequences are engaging; acting being the least important thing in the film is also fine -- but not at the cost of story. Especially when the setting of the fi...

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  'Thappad' movie review: Taapsee Pannu is brilliant in this giant-sized mirror to the society

  February 27, 2020 14:06 IST

  I might have watched the best movie of recent times. And it takes a lot to say/write this, when you have taken up reviewing films in an era that speaks of contrieved plots, and pointless drama over no...

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  'Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan' review: Inconsistent with message, 'kuchh zyada' consistent with comedy

  February 21, 2020 14:26 IST

  The 2019 film 'Eik Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga', headlined by Rajkummar Rao, and Anil Kapoor and his daughter Sonam, tugged at the heartstrings of many (including mine) for a very emotional...

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  'Bhoot The Haunted Ship' movie review: Not a scarefest, but pretty engaging

  February 21, 2020 16:11 IST

  How does one make a horror film in Bollywood? The cheap trobe of bombastic background score, coupled with a few raunchy scenes, to deliver the intrigue. And if not sex, an ugly looking ghost somersaul...

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  'Love Aaj Kal' review: SarTik's film is nowhere close to the 2009 predecessor

  February 14, 2020 15:46 IST

  Imtiaz Ali is no stranger to telling stories that reek of melancholic love -- a love that transcends barriers of behaviour patterns to let everything fall in place. 'Tamasha's Ved, 'Jab...

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  'Shikara' movie review: An important History lesson, minus the history

  February 07, 2020 14:55 IST

  The timing of 'Shikara's release is hard to ignore, with the "Union Territory" of Jammu and Kashmir limping to get back to normalcy. Ironically, the time frame in which 'Shika...

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  'Malang' movie review: A hackneyed revenge drama with fab music

  February 07, 2020 11:01 IST

  Hey scriptwriters! What's up? Where have you been? Can we get some novelty in storylines? And pretty please? And especially Mohit Suri's team! Because, though old is gold, creativity and a f...

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  'Jawaani Jaaneman' review: Alaya F makes a brilliant debut with this unfunny movie

  January 31, 2020 15:53 IST

  Saif Ali Khan has played the commitment-phobic, club-hopping, suave urban young man several times. In 'Cocktail', he was Gautam who did not know what he wanted until he met the one, and in &...

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  'Panga' movie review: An ode by a woman, to the women

  January 24, 2020 11:06 IST

  In 'Bareilly Ki Barfi', Kriti Sanon's Bitti dances on the top of her house's terrace and struts her way to glory along the streets of the town, giving the audience a view of what a...

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  Street Dancer 3D movie review: Varun-Shraddha's film has its heart in the right place, but lacks depth and excitement

  January 24, 2020 14:59 IST

  Dance dramas can make for a strenuous watch -- if bereft of a gripping script. So those who have been an ardent follower of the ABCD franchise know what to expect from 'Street Dancer 3D'. Al...

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  'Tanhaji: The Unsung Warrior' review: Ajay Devgn, Saif Ali Khan's film is a visual delight

  January 10, 2020 16:59 IST

  The rebirth of epic war dramas in the modern-day Indian cinema (largely due to Sanjay Leela Bhansali) has brought along a refurbishment of the typical villain in Hindi movies. In here, not only i...

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  'Chhapaak' review: Deepika Padukone shines in this celebration of the unflinching resolve of a woman

  January 10, 2020 6:53 IST

  I grew up on Bollywood -- to be precise, the Hindi films of the 1990s -- where the passive-aggressive male leads had the saviour complex; where the important positions were exclusively held by men; an...

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  'Good Newwz' movie review: Starcast is the 'good news' about this breezy entertainer

  December 26, 2019 13:11 IST

  For those who have binge-watched and survived on F.R.I.E.N.D.S for years (and maybe decades altogether), Deepti and Varun Batra may look like an Indian offshoot of Monica and Chandler -- a childless c...

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  'Dabangg 3' movie review: A showreel of how awesome Salman Khan can be

  December 20, 2019 14:46 IST

  Over a decade ago, Prabhudeva gave Salman Khan and his fans what they had always 'Wanted' -- and catapulted the superstar into a league of his own where he fought his nemesis with gravi...