Shilajit Mitra
The Hindu·HollywoodReporterIndia
Heart of the Beast
2026 · HollywoodReporterIndia
Ayer aims for a soulful, sunlit humanism, but can't quite bring it to full spiritual bloom. The clean, curving camerawork, especially in the wider frames, lends a Disney-esque tameness to the action.
Sitaare Zameen Par
2025 · The Hindu
Khan — one of the most didactic superstars India has ever produced — needs to surround himself with more Satbirs. An ideal Aamir Khan film can be both entertaining and edifying. But when the balance tilts, it's just annoying.
Wild Wild Punjab
2024 · The Hindu
The rest of Simarpreet Singh's film is oddly strained and docile, a blur of ham-fisted hi-jinks and inane one-liners. Wild Wild Punjab runs low on horsepower and horseplay, with the director struggling to choreograph the levels of comedic chaos he clearly aspires to.
Maharaj
2024 · The Hindu
Maharaj means well as a period drama centred on a landmark case of religious reform, but the execution is disappointingly flat. The film struggles to balance its historical significance with compelling storytelling, resulting in a slow-paced narrative that fails to engage despite its noble intentions.
Fighter
2024 · The Hindu
Fighter is a film about loving your nation, though that's a secondary concern. It is, first and foremost, a film about loving Hrithik Roshan. Siddharth Anand directed two of the most visually compelling action films of recent years, War (2019) and Pathaan (2023). Fighter offers impressive visual fidelity, seamlessly blending real-world aircrafts with what must be computer-generated models in the trickier scenes. However, the dialogue writing is painfully off, and the film's one-note triumphalism and sentimentality dampen the fun.
Murder Mubarak
2024 · The Hindu
Murder Mubarak demonstrates how simple it is to make a decent whodunit. The trick, as ever, is not in the cleverness of the plot but in the array of rascals and refuseniks we meet along the way. If all fails, there's Tripathi in a golf hat and glasses.
OMG 2
2023 · The Hindu
OMG 2 is a better film than Ram Setu— it has the candour and charm of fantasy — but it also resorts to predictable Macaulay-bashing near the end to explain the flaws of Indian society. The film could have been shot and edited better (the CGI, too, looks shabby).
Animal
2023 · The Hindu
Sandeep Reddy Vanga's protagonists — thick-headed creatures of privilege and entitlement — are all badly-behaved men who could easily pass for monsters. Yet no matter how bleak and paleolithic his view of human instincts, he also wants us to stand in awe of his heroes, even admire and empathise with them.
Ikka
2026 · HollywoodReporterIndia · Jul 2026
A three-way staring match between Sunny Deol, Akshaye Khanna and Tillotama Shome, the old-school pleasures of Siddharth P Malhotra's film dry up in time
Kis Kisko Pyaar Karoon 2
2025 · HollywoodReporterIndia · Dec 2025
Kapil Sharma is once again a man with many wives in this belated sequel; it's satire meets fantasy meets low comedy
Haq
2025 · HollywoodReporterIndia · Nov 2025
'Haq' operates with simple-minded solidarity, presenting a well-meaning but blandly linear film that fails to engage with the complexity of its subject matter.
Singham Again
2024 · The Hindu · Nov 2024
The laziness and opportunism of the last few years have all but vaporized that distinction. By that metric too it disappoints. The Cop Universe is nearing a heat death.
Sector 36
2024 · The Hindu · Sep 2024
At once vague, violent and exploitative, Sector 36 offers no convincing analysis of the murders. Fatally for a crime thriller, this is a film of non-specifics. It's somewhat true-crime, and a lot of false notes.
Stree 2
2024 · The Hindu · Aug 2024
Stree 2, directed by Amar Kaushik, coasts along on the charms of the original. Yet it feels factory-made, unlike the first film, which felt tailor-made. The commentary on patriarchy and gender dynamics that lent a purposeful edge to Kaushik's debut film is kept to a minimum here.
KILL
2024 · The Hindu · Jul 2024
Once Kill gets down to business, it explodes. This is one of the gnarliest Hindi action films set to hit theatres in a long, long while. The action is slick, frantic, propulsive and all the other adjectives you can lavish on a Bollywood film with raw fight choreography and unembarrassing CGI.