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Reviewed Chain Kulii Ki Main Kulii

Chain kulii ki main kulii charming and endearing

Central character Karan believes in this film that there is some magic in his cricket bat. Similarly there is definitely some magic in treatment by debutant director Kituu Salooja that retains your interest till the end of the movie, which is no small thing in a non-starcast, non-romantic, modes...Read more

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Reviewed Water

Stagnant water

The subject of film is dull, dark, gloomy and depressing.  I would say even dated.  But it is not necessary that chosen style of narration should also be same.  This is exactly the problem with this nomanee of best foreign language feature film at Oscars this year.   Over hyped by certain sectio...Read more

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Reviewed Nishabd

Wordless actually not literally

Nishabd means wordless.  This must be the condition of the script before the shooting of this film started and therefore throughout this film cries for content.  What you go for is an unusual love story between a 60-yr old man and an 18-yr old girl and what you get are very usual, very common ev...Read more

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Reviewed Salaam-E-Ishq

Six for the price of one!

Six for the price of one! So it is a bonanza time for Cinegoers.  Isn’t it? Here it is not one, not two but all SIX-love stories, an ensemble cast of top stars of bollywood, plus all stories in the genre of your favorite top directors Johar, Bhansali, Chopra et al. You will get to see every damn...Read more

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Reviewed Black Friday

Face to face with truth

It transports you to a dark and grim world, where an event of series of bomb blasts at mumbai in 1993, slowly brings you face to face with shocking issues viz. terrorism, lawlessness, communalism, Police force, cruelty, Human rights etc. in an amazing manner.  Writer turned successful writer-dir...Read more

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Reviewed Traffic Signal

A signal that doesn't make you stop

We know very well that there exists a racket or rather a complete mafia in those shady people you get to see a traffic signals but is that system so well defined? I doubt.  Another thing, is there only angels that live at signals as depicted here or are there devils too, who sadly you don’t see....Read more

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Reviewed Kabul Express

A Travelogue

At one hand you have constraints of a fictional approach towards story telling, to be packed with requisite drama and emotions required for a commercial product.  On the other hand, you have a subject that requires a mature, realistic treatment showing harsh realities, political issues plus much...Read more

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Reviewed Eklavya: The Royal Guard

Rovalty revisited

Eklavya-The Royal Guard (2007) Director Vidhu Vinod Chopra returned to film direction after a gap of six years since his last directorial venture-Mission Kashmir (2000).  And yes, he delivered. It is definitely unconventional, offbeat and therefore not meant for masses or popular audience ...Read more

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Reviewed Gangster

Refreshing version of underworld

I always wonder how come a talented director called Anurag Basu making mediocre films viz. Murder/ Saaya/ Tumsa Nahi Dekha etc when he proved his mettle in TV so well. But with “Gangster” which is definitely his best till date he surely comes up on his own. Another thing, Anurag belongs to that ...Read more

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Reviewed Krrish

Do we really need an indian superhero?

Sequels can work in India is what success of this film proved. Moreover, it is also quite exciting to see hi-tech action owing also to great visual effects that so far you only saw in Hollywood movies and here for the first time, when your desi hero is performing the same, makes your kids happy....Read more

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Reviewed Corporate

Murky side of Business world

Director Madhur Bhandarkar films are not completely realistic as it is generally said but yes, hard hitting and relevant. After the hard hitting-Chandini Bar/Satta/ Page 3, here is yet another ace in his sleeves and again he lived up to the expectations quite successfully, though not super-succe...Read more

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Reviewed Kabhi Alvida Na Kehna

It's all about not loving your spouses

Kabhi Alvida Na Kehna-is what director Karan Johar requesting to his loyal audience. They certainly don’t and will come back to you again, Karan provided you give them some concrete, digestible, humane tales rather than far-fetched, half baked, amateurish glimpses of adultery in relationships. B...Read more

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