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Kurbaan

'Kurbaan' raises the near-defunct issue-based cinema in Bollywood to the next level.

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The scenes when the rain becomes an unstoppable torrent absorb you but otherwise lack of tension tells on the ...
Tum Mile

Friday , 13 November '09

An airplane heading back to Mumbai is where they meet again, six years down the line, only to land smack in the middle of the worst floods that Mumbai has witnessed.
Aao Wish Karein

Friday , 13 November '09

A twelve year old wishes with all his might that he becomes big. A shooting star passes by overhead, and presto, miserable Mickey becomes a six-footer.
Neil makes a credible transition from a bewildered innocent to a belligerent ‘qaidi’ to a man who lives in hop...
Jail

Friday , 6 November '09

'Jail’ is grim, gritty and stark, and, despite a saggy middle, very watchable.
Santoshi wastes Bollywood’s most winsome pair by giving them this year’s silliest script.
Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani

Friday , 6 November '09

When Prem and Jenny are not going la, la, la, they are circling around the l word—he loves her, she knows not that she loves him.
Ajay delivers a competent but dour performance as the driven rockstar, but it's Salman who steals the show.
London Dreams

Friday , 30 October '09

With his latest film, Vipul Amrutlal Shah goes back to familiar territory : Punjabi ‘munda’ in London town, all set to conquer the world.
Sujoy Ghosh’s ‘Aladdin’ shuttles between bland and boring.
Aladdin

Friday , 30 October '09

‘Aladdin’ proves just one thing: Indian filmmakers should stay strictly away from the fantasy genre.
'You are the pregnator, but I am the maker.'
Fruit and Nut

Friday , 23 October '09

By rights, ‘Fruit and Nut’ should have been Comedy Central. After all, Boman can be a complete fruitcake, and a bigger nut than Cyrus is hard to find.
Lara fulfils her job description, which is to look great in her bikinis.
Blue

Friday , 16 October '09

Everything about `Blue’ promises to be a crackerjack underwater adventure, but it’s hard to keep your eyes open while it’s on.
Main Aur Mrs Khanna

Friday , 16 October '09

When a film try bravely to go down the uncharted path of post-marriage blues, like in ‘Main Aur Mrs Khanna’, it flounders.
‘All The Best’  cheerfully sacrifices all pretence of sense to ensure the gags are rapid fire.
All The Best

Friday , 16 October '09

Rohit Shetty discovered his winning formula with ‘Golmaal’, kept it up with last year’s Diwali hit, ‘Golmaal Returns’, and is back with ‘All The Best'.
Sanjay Gupta’s productions usually involve beefy men playing with guns in settings; this one also has a woman ...
Acid Factory

Friday , 9 October '09

A group of men regain consciousness in a vast shed with no memory of how they got there. They don’t remember a thing.
Ranbir is paired opposite Konkana Sen Sharma and the film is directed by Ayan Mukherji.
Wake Up Sid

Friday , 2 October '09

Siddharth Mehra is a good-looking, rich lay-about. He drives his father’s expensive cars, flashes plastic at designer stores, and works very hard at partying.
Do Knot Disturb

Friday , 2 October '09

Govinda is well past his sell-by date. This is immediately evident when he first appears on screen, plunging headlong into a situation.
‘What’s Your Rashee’ has been styled as a rom-com featuring twelve Priyankas and one Hurman.
What’s Your Raashee

Friday , 25 September '09

Yogesh Patel has ten days to check out twelve potential candidates, each representing a ‘raashee’: Makar or Meen? Capricorn or Pisces?
Rani delivers some spanking sixes, and a fiery feminist speech. on the field.
Dil Bole Hadippa

Friday , 18 September '09

To actually enjoy ‘Dil Bole Hadippa’, you have to be able to believe that Rani Mukerjee can pass off as a turbaned, bearded and mustachioed young Sardar.
Wanted

Friday , 18 September '09

Salman Khan has still got the best bod in the business, on splendid display in the blood-spattered climax. Aamir’s eight packs are not a patch.
Ruslaan

Friday , 11 September '09

Bombs ripping through Mumbai local trains and bloodied bodies piled by the tracks is an all-too familiar sight by now in films. `Ruslaan’ tries to go beyond that.
Vadaa Raha

Friday , 11 September '09

If you can deal with a morose Deol, who’s only slightly better than an ultra-bright Deol, and a chirpy chatterbox of a co-star, ‘Vadaa Raha’ can be sat through.
Aamras

Friday , 11 September '09

The good thing about `Aamras’ is that it gives us young adults who are not cloyingly saccharine all the time, but the story-telling and the plot points are interesting only intermittently.
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