Raja Sen

Raja Sen's reviews do not count toward the Tomatometer®. This is not a Tomatometer-approved critic, and this critic's reviews are not published on a Tomatometer-approved publication.
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2/5 | 60% | Mission Mangal (2019) |
The film becomes a saddening bore. - Hindustan Times
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| Posted Aug 16, 2019
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2/5 | 38% | Batla House (2019) |
There's no true tension, largely because of a mediocre supporting cast who are amateurishly theatrical in both their fear and their laughter. - Hindustan Times
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| Posted Aug 16, 2019
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2/5 | 9% | Khandaani Shafakhana (2019) |
Sonakshi Sinha and Badshah's film has its heart in the place but suffers for playing sexual problems for jokes and unnecessary melodrama. - Hindustan Times
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| Posted Aug 2, 2019
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4/5 | 67% | Judgementall Hai Kya (2019) |
The treatment is delicious. Daniel B George, composer for Sriram Raghavan films like Johnny Gaddaar, keeps the vibe groovy, accentuating the changing moods while playfully misleading the audience. - Hindustan Times
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| Posted Jul 26, 2019
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2/5 | 31% | Super 30 (2019) |
Set to the operatic background score of an Old Spice commercial, all the emotional manipulation gets in the way of inspiration. - Hindustan Times
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| Posted Jul 12, 2019
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4.5/5 | 89% | Article 15 (2019) |
Written by Gaurav Solanki and Sinha, the film has the stench of honesty. It is hauntingly shot by Ewan Mulligan, who is evocative while shooting... - Hindustan Times
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| Posted Jun 28, 2019
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1.5/5 | 23% | Kabir Singh (2019) |
Kabir gets more repulsive by the scene, but other characters thinking he's wrong doesn't help when the creators don't agree. - Hindustan Times
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| Posted Jun 24, 2019
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2.5/5 | 62% | Game Over (2019) |
This could so easily have been a smart film. We are never told why the heroine loves or makes games... - Hindustan Times
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| Posted Jun 17, 2019
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1/5 | No Score Yet | PM Narendra Modi (2019) |
This is a monumental ode to hubris. - Hindustan Times
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| Posted May 24, 2019
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2.5/5 | 23% | De De Pyaar De (2019) |
This is a film that pretends to be brave. - Hindustan Times
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| Posted May 17, 2019
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1.5/5 | 6% | Student of the Year 2 (2019) |
Irony is in predictably short supply. In this laminated depiction of college life, the boy is capable of all superheroics as the girls cheer him from the sidelines. - Hindustan Times
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| Posted May 10, 2019
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1.5/5 | No Score Yet | Blank (2019) |
All the bad guys in this film have beards. Sunny Deol does not. He is a good guy, and therefore shortchanged in the facial hair department... Yep, this is that kind of film. - Hindustan Times
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| Posted May 3, 2019
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2.5/5 | 39% | Kalank (2019) |
Kalank often feels too much, and I only wish it made me do the same. It is a stunningly plated meal, but needed salt. - Hindustan Times
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| Posted Apr 18, 2019
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1.5/5 | 15% | Romeo Akbar Walter (2019) |
Romeo Akbar Walter is all dossier, no thrill, and it's a dossier read aloud by Jackie Shroff. Pity, really. No point in pouring a drink so dry it forgets it wanted to be a martini. - Hindustan Times
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| Posted Apr 5, 2019
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2/5 | 33% | Kesari (2019) |
We must salute the brave soldiers of the Saragarhi. This movie merely gives us 21 angry men. - Hindustan Times
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| Posted Mar 22, 2019
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4.5/5 | 79% | Photograph (2019) |
Sanya Malhotra is superb in the role, boxed in by her own hesitation, softly and inwardly holding her own alongside the striking Geetanjali Kulkarni. - Hindustan Times
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| Posted Mar 15, 2019
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3/5 | 60% | Badla (2019) |
Amitabh Bachchan has been in the movies for fifty years now, and whatever he says, we're listening. - Hindustan Times
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| Posted Mar 8, 2019
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3/5 | 80% | Sonchiriya (2019) |
[It] proves to be a film about the desperation to belong to something larger than oneself, the all-consuming desire to believe in something. - Hindustan Times
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| Posted Mar 1, 2019
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1/5 | 30% | Total Dhamaal (2019) |
As I now massage my traumatised temples, I thank Devgn for appearing on the poster, and make note to heed his statutory honesty in the future. - Hindustan Times
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| Posted Feb 25, 2019
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4/5 | 96% | Gully Boy (2019) |
The knockout punch comes from MC Sher. With a name that means both big cat and couplet, Sher is played by Siddhant Chaturvedi with natural, easy ferocity. - Hindustan Times
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| Posted Feb 15, 2019
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3.5/5 | 77% | Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga (2019) |
This could have been a bolder and more explicit film, but sometimes cinema should work like a street play. Sometimes we need to preach beyond the choir. - Hindustan Times
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| Posted Feb 1, 2019
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1/5 | 20% | Thackeray (2019) |
This is either an oblivious or blatantly self-aware film, a work not of propaganda as much as it is a work of pride, celebrating a legacy of violence. - Hindustan Times
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| Posted Jan 25, 2019
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3/5 | 50% | Manikarnika: The Queen of Jhansi (2019) |
Ranaut is glorious. She wears a dazzling smile early on like a cloak of confidence, and later slices down enemy soldiers with a fury that must surely have injured some extras on the set. - Hindustan Times
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| Posted Jan 25, 2019
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2/5 | 62% | Uri (2019) |
While watching Uri, I kept wondering about the point of such a self-congratulatory film. - Hindustan Times
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| Posted Jan 14, 2019
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1/5 | 20% | The Accidental Prime Minister (2019) |
This is propaganda by people who can't spell. - Hindustan Times
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| Posted Jan 11, 2019
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3/5 | 27% | Simmba (2018) |
Singh dials up the intensity, spittle underscoring his passionate declarations, and the show stays compelling. - Hindustan Times
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| Posted Jan 2, 2019
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3.5/5 | 29% | Zero (2018) |
The first half of Zero is flat-out fantastic, an unabashed charm-offensive from Rai, Khan and the film's writer Himanshu Sharma... It is as the film continues, and gets more fanciful, that the seams start to show. - Hindustan Times
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| Posted Dec 21, 2018
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2/5 | 43% | Kedarnath (2018) |
Kedarnath is a pointless, entirely forgettable film, but some may remember the girl fondly - which may well be the film's only task. - Hindustan Times
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| Posted Dec 7, 2018
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3.5/5 | 56% | 2.0 (2018) |
The film is rather linear, with an easy-to-identify and easy-to-extinguish problem, but coasts nicely on Rajini's charm. - Hindustan Times
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| Posted Nov 29, 2018
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1.5/5 | 67% | Pihu (2018) |
A silly, sadistic and torturous experience. - Hindustan Times
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| Posted Nov 16, 2018
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1/5 | 20% | Thugs of Hindostan (2018) |
I believe pirate movies need to have eye-patches. This one doesn't, and that's a shame. The viewing experience would have been hugely improved. I should have gone in wearing two. - Hindustan Times
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| Posted Nov 8, 2018
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1.5/5 | 30% | Baazaar (2018) |
There are many problems with the mediocre Baazaar, but the primary issue is intent, because it appears Chawla didn't truly attempt to tell a story. - Hindustan Times
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| Posted Oct 26, 2018
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3.5/5 | 92% | Badhaai Ho (2018) |
The dialogues are a riot. - Hindustan Times
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| Posted Oct 18, 2018
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2/5 | 27% | Helicopter Eela (2018) |
Helicopter Eela also claims to be a comedy, though most of the humour is inadvertent. - Hindustan Times
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| Posted Oct 12, 2018
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5/5 | 100% | Andhadhun (2018) |
This phenomenal new thriller from Sriram Raghavan pulls off its tricks in plain sight. Everybody knows how a mystery should work, but Raghavan knows how all the mysteries work. - Hindustan Times
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| Posted Oct 5, 2018
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2/5 | 90% | Sui Dhaaga: Made in India (2018) |
The film takes over two hours to stitch together the same blasted story. - Hindustan Times
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| Posted Sep 28, 2018
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4/5 | 73% | Pataakha (2018) |
The delights are in the details. The turns of phrase are rollicking and unassumingly poetic. - Hindustan Times
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| Posted Sep 27, 2018
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3.5/5 | 74% | Manto (2018) |
The maestro Zakir Hussain provides an intricate background score, one that is occasionally highlighted by a discordant, drunken sitar twang. This sense of intoxication informs the visuals as well. - Hindustan Times
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| Posted Sep 21, 2018
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2.5/5 | 77% | Husband Material (Manmarziyaan) (2018) |
It is ultimately a disappointment not because of its craft, but because of predictability, self-indulgent pace and its irritating attempt to be both a light crowd-pleaser with a cutesy ending as well as an impassioned, volatile romance. - Hindustan Times
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| Posted Sep 14, 2018
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1.5/5 | 29% | Paltan (2018) |
There is a lot to be said about the futility of war, and now Dutta has made his case for the futility of the war movie. - Hindustan Times
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| Posted Sep 7, 2018
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3.5/5 | 60% | Laila Majnu (2018) |
Here are highly flawed and even doomed characters, yet they partake of something special, enviable and real. Who among us dares judge a true romantic? Love is love. - Hindustan Times
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| Posted Sep 7, 2018
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3/5 | 79% | Stree (2018) |
The laughs are inconsistent, and despite a breezy-ish momentum, the plotting feels sloppy and rushed. The ideas are fine, but the writing needed work. - Hindustan Times
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| Posted Aug 31, 2018
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2/5 | 50% | Happy Phirr Bhag Jayegi (2018) |
Happy Phirr Bhag Jayegi relies too hard on obvious attempts at humour at the expense of the Chinese characters. - Hindustan Times
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| Posted Aug 27, 2018
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3.5/5 | 83% | Trapped (2017) |
Rao plays the character superbly, making his Shaurya insecure and hesitant. - NDTV
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| Posted Jul 23, 2018
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1/5 | 9% | Begum Jaan (2017) |
Begum Jaan could well have been a film about a fantastic bunch of feisty, disparate women taking on all odds, but alas. We're left only with memories of some melancholy bores. - NDTV
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| Posted Jul 12, 2018
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4/5 | 100% | Saheb Biwi Aur Gangster Returns (2013) |
The new film is much sharper, more assured, and, unencumbered by a classic to stand beside, a far better film. - Rediff.com
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| Posted Jul 2, 2018
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1.5/5 | No Score Yet | Sonali Cable (2014) |
Sonali Cable disconnects itself from the point of the film incredibly fast, littering itself with one-note characters stuck in cinematic cliches. - Rediff.com
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| Posted Jun 6, 2018
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3.5/5 | 50% | Veere Di Wedding (2018) |
Veere Di Wedding gets this fantastic bond right, and gives us four dramatically different kinds of women with agency and spirit. Nobody stands in the way of their decisions. - NDTV
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| Posted Jun 1, 2018
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2/5 | 86% | Zubaan (2016) |
The whole film emerges, sadly, like one of those ads where you can half-hum the song but you forget what it was for. - Rediff.com
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| Posted May 22, 2018
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1.5/5 | No Score Yet | Wah Taj (2016) |
In Wah Taj, the press is the most ridiculous. Assembled to cover a breaking story, they write in notepads while people argue, they posture with microphones even without cameras on them, and they sing bhajans siding with the protagonist. - Rediff.com
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| Posted May 17, 2018
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