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Sky Force review – Akshay Kumar stands tall in threadbare air-war flagwaver
Kumar does his best to inject some humanist gravitas into a film set during the 1965 India-Pakistan war, that …
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Singham Again – third time around for Ajay Devgn’s supercop leading selection box of star names
The big Diwali release is the latest entry in Rohit Shetty’s ‘Cop Universe’, once again featuring Devgn as the…
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Kill review – ultraviolent Indian train thriller is finger-cracking good
This tasty piece of action cinema provides crunches, squelches and and spatter effects as the good guys and ba…
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Kalki 2898 AD review – maximalist sci-fi epic mixes Mahabharata with Mad Max
Amitabh Bachchan plays a mythological warrior in a withered dystopian city where desert car chases, CGI magic …
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Yodha review – bone-crunching patriotism on display in adrenaline-fuelled thriller
Sidharth Malhotra fights like a machine in an Indian action film cut from similar cloth as the jingoistic Ramb…
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Fighter review – India’s pizazz-free Top Gun weighed down by patriotic propaganda
Hrithik Roshan and Deepika Padukone can’t inject feeling into an air force love story with lifeless CGI and ob…
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Animal review – Ranbir Kapoor plays one of the vilest protagonists in cinema history
Kapoor plays the scion of a wealthy family whose violence is the result of a craving for love and validation, …
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‘Haven’t we all wanted to kick an aunty at one point?’ martial arts meets Desi wedding in Polite Society
This British action comedy is a nuptials-based kung fu homage. Leads Priya Kansara and Ritu Arya discuss audit…
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The Legend of Maula Jatt review – Pakistani classic remake is Game of Thrones meets Gladiator
Entertaining new version of Pakistan cult movie follows a young noble boy spirited away to a poor village when…
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Major review – Bollywood burnishes an Indian military legend in high style
A hero of the 2008 Mumbai hotel siege gets a relentlessly entertaining biopic, going all-out with the hagiogra…
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Anek review – gunfights, boxing and what it means to be Indian
Anubhav Sinha’s action thriller asks pertinent questions about political conflict and cultural identity“Peace …
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A biryani western, on bhang: RRR and Indian cinema reopens
Fans and critics welcome multilingual, pan-Indian, historical-action-romance blockbuster from the renowned Tel…
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Radhe review – Salman Khan blockbuster is a cheap dash through the fight tropes
Why use the door, Salman? Bollywood megastar goes back to basics, pummelling everything in sight including nar…
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The Warrior Queen of Jhansi review – Indian rebellion epic gets feminist retelling
Devika Bhise as the widowed monarch Rani Lakshmibai shows the Victorian Brits, including Rupert Everett, what …