Top Rated Films
Manisha Lakhe's Film Reviews
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Director Nishikant Kamat piles on horror upon horror to make John Abraham the action star that he has been in his earlier films like Force. But the horrors are so unbelievable – tourists being killed for their organs, kids kidnapped and killed for organs and thievery, drugs, guns, builder mafia – and executed so laughably, so over the the top that there’s unintentional laughter instead of tension.
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Is there any family without little cracks and big gaps? In a small town of Kunoor, inside a traditional bungalow, a family faces many struggles. But there’s always love to tide things over, and that makes for a very watchable popcorn treat.
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This is not Oh My God, neither is it PK, but this is a clever little gem that may slip through the cracks simply because the film does not have A-listers. Global Baba is a clever satire, written well but it fails to deliver the punch against fake godmen that Oh My God did. Even though directed well, the story feels like it is looping without moving an inch. But the heart is in the right place.
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The trailer you watched is far superior to what you watched for two hours. Everything happens so slowly, you want to take the hero’s gun (he’s just posing with it!) and shoot yourself with it, or at least someone in the movie just to get a reaction from them.
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If you liked the original Ganga Jal, then maybe you should stay at home and watch the DVD. The story is the same as the original but diluted. And even though Priyanka Chopra tries her best to kick some baddie butts, she’s reduced to sitting by the hero’s bedside, eyes wide, saying, ‘How did you manage to keep these files so secret, for so long?!’
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You come away with mixed feelings even though you really loved the idea of ‘tumhari zubaan kuch keh rahi hai…’.
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Three stories of Bollywood crazy people is a good idea. But the film suffers when the three stories are dragged through the mud way after the audience has figured out the end of each story.
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A professor of Marathi in Aligarh University is forced to resign after being humiliated for being gay. This is his story, sensitively told and brilliantly delivered by Manoj Bajapyee and supported by Rajkummar Rao.
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The film is beautifully made and keeps the drama alive in the first half and then loses steam in the second half and ends on a high emotional note.
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You emerge from the theater scathed for life. And with a determination that practically grown up kids who behave that way should be legally disowned by parents.