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Ajit Duara

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Gunday

A movie that is rather too loud but still watchable—mostly for Priyanka Chopra’s sizzler of a turn

20 February 2014
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Hasee Toh Phasee

Changing the personality of a lead character midway, this film crashes after a delightful start

17 February 2014
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One By Two

A decent romcom idea on paper translates into an extraordinarily dull movie on screen

10 February 2014
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Jai Ho

Proof that the Salman Khan persona and moral philosophy do not go together

01 February 2014
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Miss Lovely

A masterly noirish re-creation of C-grade smut that takes a hard look at exploitation in cinema

24 January 2014
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Dedh Ishqiya

The dead genre of the ‘Muslim social’ has been revived to deliver a smart sequel

17 January 2014
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The Wolf of Wall Street

So good is its craftsmanship and acting that its lack of meaning is forgivable

13 January 2014
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Dhoom 3

A fun multi-star franchise that loses out because of its single-minded focus on one star

25 December 2013
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Cinema
What the Fish

It starts out breezy with some laugh-out-loud moments but gets clichéd pretty quickly

19 December 2013
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Cinema
R...Rajkumar

The cool tapori act works for Salman but Shahid doesn’t have the panache to pull it off

11 December 2013

Authors

Brahma Chellaney

Brahma Chellaney is a geostrategist and the author of two award-winning books on water: Water, Peace, and War and Water: Asia’s New Battleground

MJ Akbar

MJ Akbar is the author of, among several titles, Tinderbox: The Past and Future of Pakistan. His latest book is Gandhi: A Life in Three Campaigns

Ram Madhav

Ram Madhav is president, India Foundation, and is with BJP

Makarand R Paranjape

Makarand R Paranjape is an author and columnist. Views are personal.

TCA Raghavan

TCA Raghavan is a former Indian High Commissioner to Pakistan and Singapore. His first book, Attendant Lords: Abdur Rahim and Bairam Khan: Courtiers and Poets in Mughal India, was awarded the Mohammad Habib Prize by the Indian History Congress. He is also the author of The People Next Door: The Curious History of India’s Relations with Pakistan and History Men: Jadunath Sarkar, G S Sardesai, Raghubir Sinh and Their Quest for India’s Past. His latest book is Circles of Freedom: Love, Friendship and Loyalty in the Indian National Struggle

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