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Anvita Singh

India Today

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Animal

Animal

2023 · India Today · Dec 2023

'Animal' could have been a beautiful, meaty father-son love story. Instead, it is driven by its lead character's whims for 200 minutes. Everything is almost in place, except for the main requirement of a film -- its story.

4.0
TRM 5.0
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Khufiya

Khufiya

2023 · India Today · Oct 2023

It is a bad sign when you like a trailer of a film better than the film itself. Unfortunately, that is the case with Vishal Bhardwaj's latest, the Netflix thriller 'Khufiya.' An espionage story needs to be taut, brimming with so much tension (loud or otherwise), that you can cut it with a knife. Khufiya simply doesn't have that.

5.0
TRM 6.3
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Jaane Jaan

Jaane Jaan

2023 · India Today · Sep 2023

When you have a solid screenplay to rely on, it is half the battle won for everyone involved. Then all you need to do is cast the right actors. In 'Jaane Jaan's' case, both these demands were met by writer and filmmaker Sujoy Ghosh ably.

7.0
TRM 6.3
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