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Review of Peepli [Stillborn]

Rating: * *

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MNIK-THE REVIEW

The marketing juggernaut, SRK and KJo’s star power, and the pre-release controversy is helping the film break some box-office records but viewed as a work of art, it disappoints

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VEER – THE VERDICT
The critics are right though Salman can take solace from the box office collections

Rating: *

Veer became a veritable mystery film by the time I got to see it! The dissonance between the all-round bad reviews, the positive word of mouth and the weekend BO collections (upwards of 20 crores net resulting in one of the biggest openings of all time) was quite puzzling. And this curiosity needed the most satiation by the time we entered the darkened hall and sat in the carefully… Continue

Rating: * * * *

Cast: Amitabh Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan, Vidya Balan, Paresh Rawal, Arundhati Nag

The quibbles are few and insignificant. Why is it named ‘Paa’ when it’s about ‘Maa’, and arguably more so? Was it only to mark Aishwarya’s presence who calls her paa-in-law by that moniker? The giant, bulbous head could have been avoided which brings Auro dangerously close to being a cousin of ‘Jaadu’. However, the makeup, especially the freakishly real veins on the head, is first-rate. Big B’s… Continue

Paisa vasool- but only if the ticket costs one paisa

Rating: * 1/2

Cast: Akshay Kumar, Suneil Shetty, Katrina Kaif, Sameera Reddy, Paresh Rawal, Johny Lever, Chunky Pandey, Shakti Kapoor, Archana Puran Singh, Neha Dhupia, Rajpal Yadav

Two things leave me puzzled. Why wasn’t the movie named De ‘Dhan’-a ‘Dhan’-for it’s all about money, honey- and why was it based in Singapore when there was no special requirement for the city-state in the story?

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