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Shubhra Gupta

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Gandhi Talks (2026) 2/5 EDIT “The better bits are in the first half; post-interval, all is a confused slump, weighed down by an inordinately long passage with the rich guy, poor fellow and the grinning thief skulking about without any discernible purpose.” – The Indian Express Jan 30, 2026 Full Review Mardaani 3 (2026) 2/5 EDIT “...the eagerness to frame Mukerji centre-stage– literally in more than one scene– dulls the rest of the enterprise.” – The Indian Express Jan 30, 2026 Full Review Mercy (2026) 24% 1/5 EDIT “The story-telling is flat; so is everyone on screen.” – The Indian Express Jan 23, 2026 Full Review Border 2 (2026) 73% 3/5 EDIT “...Border 2 holds on to the soul and spirit of the original, while giving us a much bigger canvas, showing conflict not just on land and air, but also water.” – The Indian Express Jan 23, 2026 Full Review Happy Patel: Khatarnak Jasoos (2026) 50% 2/5 EDIT “The trouble with so many ideas jostling in the film, written by Das and Amogh Ranadive, is that very little gets to breathe. Just as something is about to settle in, off it darts in another direction. ” – The Indian Express Jan 16, 2026 Full Review Ikkis (2025) 100% 3/5 EDIT “This is as anti-Dhurandhar a film as you can hope to watch in theatres this year, a film that speaks of the residual connections between people regardless of borders, as opposed to those whose intention is to stoke old wounds, and create new ones.” – The Indian Express Jan 2, 2026 Full Review Anaconda (2025) 48% 2/5 EDIT “This new version of one of Hollywood’s most popular creature features is so desperate to pitch in the laughs along with the scares that it renders everything dull and diluted.” – The Indian Express Dec 29, 2025 Full Review Tu Meri Main Tera Main Tera Tu Meri (2025) 10% 1.5/5 EDIT “Are we back in the 90s? Yes, yes, because that’s what the kids are thirsting for apparently: a 90s style romance, stuffed with glycerine and melodrama and songs-and-dances from that era.” – The Indian Express Dec 29, 2025 Full Review Raat Akeli Hai: The Bansal Murders (2025) 79% 2.5/5 EDIT “And while [Raat Akeli Hai]...does have several engaging parts, it didn’t hold me as much as the first.” – The Indian Express Dec 19, 2025 Full Review The Great Shamsuddin Family (2025) 2.5/5 EDIT “Watch it for the array of solid performances, helmed by the wonderful Farida Jalal and Sheeba Chaddha, with Anup Soni’s criminally brief appearance leaving a mark. It isn’t perfect, but it makes you smile and think.” – The Indian Express Dec 16, 2025 Full Review Saali Mohabbat (2025) 2/5 EDIT “This is the kind of film that should leave you chilled, but the beats are familiar, you can see the climactic twist coming a mile off.” – The Indian Express Dec 12, 2025 Full Review Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025) 92% 3.5/5 EDIT “The performances are all top-notch, with O’Connor turning in one of those beautifully-judged acts which makes you want to start believing again in the goodness of humans.” – The Indian Express Dec 12, 2025 Full Review Stephen (2025) 2.5/5 EDIT “For a film like this, then, to be able to predict what will happen much before it actually does, isn’t the best look.” – The Indian Express Dec 5, 2025 Full Review Kaisi Ye Paheli (2025) 1.5/5 EDIT “The red herrings are weak. And the big reveal isn’t one at all: sharp-eyed viewers will spot the killer a mile off.” – The Indian Express Dec 4, 2025 Full Review Tere Ishk Mein (2025) 33% 1/5 EDIT “...it’s unbelievable that a contemporary film will try and shove down our throats that most toxic of male tropes...” – The Indian Express Dec 2, 2025 Full Review Gustaakh Ishq (2025) 2/5 EDIT “...this is is the kind of film whose dialogues are meant to draw wah-wahi — but that it struggles to make you feel.” – The Indian Express Dec 2, 2025 Full Review 120 Bahadur (2025) 73% 3/5 EDIT “The ‘vardi’ and the ‘valour’ that demands that ultimate ‘balidaan’ brings a lump to the throat, and a tear to the eye.” – The Indian Express Nov 21, 2025 Full Review Mastiii 4 (2025) .5/5 EDIT “...nothing and no one lands.” – The Indian Express Nov 21, 2025 Full Review The Running Man (2025) 63% 2.5/5 EDIT “...Powell doesn’t have the depth to dig deeper than he does; neither does the film. Soon enough, it becomes a drag, and stays that way.” – The Indian Express Nov 15, 2025 Full Review De De Pyaar De 2 (2025) 55% 2.5/5 EDIT “Yes, we applaud all this modern-liberal stuff, but should it take this long to come to the point? Just shows how tough the sell of an older-young romance still is.” – The Indian Express Nov 15, 2025 Full Review Baramulla (2025) 54% 2/5 EDIT “...the film unravels in the way it tries to mix its allegorical elements with inconsistent plot-points which include terrorists-from-sarhad-paar involved with ‘farming’ innocents: too much obviousness takes away from the delicacy of the rest of it.” – The Indian Express Nov 8, 2025 Full Review Jatadhara (2025) 2/5 EDIT “Somewhere in this choppy, chaotic enterprise is a film which wants to warn us about the evils of greed, and the importance of tradition. But it is basically yet another Sudheer Babu star vehicle, in which he romances, dances, and chases bad spirits away. ” – The Indian Express Nov 7, 2025 Full Review Haq (2025) 77% 3.5/5 EDIT “‘Haq’ does what it sets out to do with clear-eyed empathy, giving us an ordinary woman who found extraordinary strength and resilience to fight for her cause, and created, without ever quite realising it, history.” – The Indian Express Nov 5, 2025 Full Review Ek Deewane Ki Deewaniyat (2025) 1/5 EDIT “Despite the sighs and the songs, the film does nothing but prop a flagrant red flag as a ‘hero’, forcing the ‘heroine’ to put out a preposterous proposal half way through the film, which is meant to be a shocker...” – The Indian Express Oct 22, 2025 Full Review Thamma (2025) 33% 1.5/5 EDIT “...there is so little that engages in this crowded canvas, written by Niren Bhatt, Suresh Mathew and Afrun Falara, that the result is a pair of hurting ears and glazed eyes.” – The Indian Express Oct 21, 2025 Full Review
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