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‘Tere Ishk Mein’ Movie Review: When ‘Raanjhanaa’ and ‘Animal’ Enter A Toxic Relationship

Starring Dhanush and Kriti Sanon, Aanand L. Rai’s latest monument to the madness of love is very difficult to sit through.

BY Rahul Desai
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‘Kaisi Ye Paheli’ Movie Review: Technical Glitches Mar A Good One-Liner

Ananyabrata Chakravorty’s small-town whodunnit has the ideas, but fails to contain its excitement.

BY Rahul Desai
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'Mastiii 4' Movie Review: Eternal Sunshine of the Stunted Male Mind

Milap Zaveri’s latest plays out like a prudish porn fantasy parading as an unwatchable sex comedy.

BY Rahul Desai
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‘120 Bahadur’ Movie Review: The Battle is Lost in Farhan Akhtar's Historical Drama

Starring Farhan Akhtar, the historical drama set during the 1962 Sino-Indian war is ambushed by its own mediocrity.

BY Rahul Desai
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‘Lord Curzon Ki Haveli’ Movie Review: One Night, Two Couples and A Hitchcock-sized Mess

Actor Anshuman Jha’s directorial debut — a chatty chamber drama set in an English manor — does too much and says too little

BY Rahul Desai
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‘Sunny Sanskari Ki Tulsi Kumari’ Movie Review: The Joke Is On Us

The romcom stars Varun Dhawan and Janhvi Kapoor in an endless time-loop of Bollywoodisms and stale references

BY Rahul Desai
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‘Nishaanchi’ Movie Review: A Gangs of Wasseypur-Sized Hangover From Anurag Kashyap

Anurag Kashyap searches for vintage Anurag Kashyap for 176 minutes, but the patience does not pay off.

BY Rahul Desai
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'Baaghi 4' Movie Review: Tiger's 'Animal' Takes A Catnap

A South-sized hangover is not the only crack in the fourth installment of the ‘Baaghi’ movie franchise.

BY Rahul Desai
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‘Ufff Yeh Siyapaa’ Movie Review: There Are No Words

It’s hard to imagine a more misguided Hindi movie idea than that of a 116-minute comedy without any dialogue

BY Rahul Desai
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‘Param Sundari’ Movie Review: Imitation Is Not The Best Flattery

The culture-clash romcom, starring Sidharth Malhotra and Janhvi Kapoor, has no identity of its own

BY Rahul Desai
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‘Songs of Paradise’ Movie Review: Danish Renzu’s Film on Padma Shri Raj Begum Is Lost Between The Lines

The musical drama, inspired by the life of Kashmir’s first female playback singer, presents music without quite exploring it

BY Rahul Desai
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‘Ghich Pich’ Movie Review: A Bittersweet Slice-Of-Life ‘Mindie’

2000s Chandigarh is the protagonist of Ankur Singla’s well-acted friendship drama

BY Rahul Desai
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'Maalik' Movie Review: Rajkummar Rao is Trapped in a Stale Gangster Saga

Directed by Pulkit, ‘Maalik’ lacks both single-screen soul and multiplex gloss

BY Rahul Desai
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‘Aankhon Ki Gustaakhiyan’ Movie Review: Out of Sight, Out of Mind

Inspired by a Ruskin Bond short story, the romantic drama starring Vikrant Massey and Shanaya Kapoor takes the ‘love is blind’ adage too far

BY Rahul Desai
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'Kaalidhar Laapata' Movie Review: Abhishek Bachchan-Starrer is a Sweet Story Undone By Bland Storytelling

Abhishek Bachchan stars as a dementia-afflicted character in this 'Baghban'-coded remake of a Tamil film.

BY Rahul Desai
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'Metro… In Dino' Movie Review: Anurag Basu Finds Chaos in the Calm

Starring the likes of Aditya Roy Kapur, among others, this spiritual sequel to 'Life in a… Metro' (2007) is staged as a wild modern-day musical

BY Rahul Desai
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'Maa' Movie Review: Horror is a Myth in this Kajol-Starrer

Vishal Furia’s supernatural thriller is too safe to be scary.

BY Rahul Desai
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'Sister Midnight' Movie Review: Radhika Apte Reframes Implosion as an Artform

Karan Kandhari’s radical film about a lonely housewife deconstructs the idea of feminism.

BY Rahul Desai
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‘Chidiya’ Movie Review: A Sweet And Self-Contained Film About Lost Childhoods

Mehran Amrohi’s modest indie was made long ago, but its themes are timeless.

BY Rahul Desai
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‘Dilli Dark’ Movie Review: A Neat Black Comedy with Delhi-Shaped Angst

Dibakar Das Roy’s film about a Nigerian striver skewers the city with humour and bluntness.

BY Rahul Desai