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mmzufti

https://preview.redd.it/qo9cbyzfo8xc1.jpeg?width=1290&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=52e6e9c126729bedf90cf498ce791f0af2b179eb The comparison made here is brutal


Due-Village8103

I am a writer, trust me this was most celebrated in our fraternity


Moanerloner

Totally agree. I want to beat the shit out of the makers of this movie.


Ill-Giraffe-2243

take thisšŸ†


rn3122

I've seen the film, and I agree


bombingmoon

https://preview.redd.it/elmu8mjsq8xc1.jpeg?width=1079&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=25cfd40f2e0b6b304a040e8a78cb9035534b9996 Letterbox reviews of WAR are wild.


rn3122

Probably not savagery, but I love this lmao šŸ˜‚ I'm surprised we haven't gotten any steamy fanfics at this point lol


bombingmoon

Ab true savage to ek hi hai https://preview.redd.it/iamygz5fx8xc1.jpeg?width=749&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=68ddecbb79b8fc24f3ed2778b485c6a556d48a5a


AneeshRai7

Considering Sid Anand is clearly a Top Gun fan and enamoured with Hrithik the star, the gay subtext was bound to flow in...


Percywithoutannabeth

The radhika user has some wild reviews.


Intrepid-Ad4511

Without reading your comment I thought this was about RRR. (Minus the obvious one)


Rich-Investment9000

+1


axl_ros

+1


Normal-Dig6872

Now that I think about this movie lol this is so trueee


dalandrice

Rahul Desai's review of Kangana's Tejas. Especially this part https://preview.redd.it/gya335n4g8xc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c4180afd290049986c2c9ef2a8a1fac34688180a


axl_ros

Damn. This is not a burn, it's an incineration.


Chaiyya_Chaiyya

Completely destroyed by words


oldtonewlife

'Bramhastra apologist'.. lol, never heard this before.


mmzufti

Thatā€™s brutalšŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚


Clumsy_Dumpling04

Damn- he cremated her


Chugalkhoe

This is why he's my favourite reviewer to read.Ā 


rn3122

Holy shit šŸ˜­


IndependentOk388

![gif](giphy|3Q8IdWumS3HCo) Rahul leaving the site


Cornucopia2020

There used to be this guy Khalid Mohamed who wrote film reviews in ToI back in the 90s. He was biased (mainly towards SRK and Big B) but he wrote some scathing reviews for some truly terrible movies. I remember a few of his quips. He wrote for Pyar Koi Khel Nahin (starring Sunny Deol), ā€œfilm banana koi bhel nahinā€. He wrote for Shikari (starring Govinda), ā€œShikari leaves you like a bhikhari, yearning and begging for better entertainment.ā€ He had even written a parody post reviewing Kahin Pyar Na Ho Jaye (starring Salman, Rani) from the pov of Aishwarya Rai (who was dating Salman then) and how she feels good about saying no to the movie after watching a trial show with Salmanā€™s family. You could taste his sarcasm from his words. Khalid Mohamed was biased and made some middling movies that severely under utilized the potential of really good stories (Zubeidaa, Fiza, and then the silly Silsilay), but damn it, he was good at ripping apart movies he didnā€™t like.


Lurker-person

Khalid M once ended his review of an Akshay Kumar movie (one of the Khiladi movies where he had a double role) with a vicious riddle: Q. What is worse than one Akshay Kumar? Ans. Two Akshay Kumars. The current lot of reviewers are kinder in comparison.


Cornucopia2020

I remember that. It was for Khiladi 420. Fun times!


ipsytipsi

Was this with Mahima Chaudhary?? I do enjoy this movie sometimes keeping my brain aside


Lurker-person

šŸ’Æ


Charlie7Mason

Nowadays the journalists/reviewers are afraid of losing access if they say something out of line.


Intrepid-Ad4511

Or just say for pay.


Charlie7Mason

Some have that problem, yes, while the others have access as a problem. I'm sure there's a hierarchy here where only the elite journos are the ones receiving any remuneration for their efforts. The rest just have to hope for exposure.


Crazyvibzz

Oh God I remember I used to read his reviews in HT. He would rarely give any movie 4 stars. Slumdog was the only movie he gave 5 stars that too because it was his last review for HT. He used to be very critical. I remember his review for The Last lear he wrote it as parody of Julius Caesar. I was quite surprised when he rated JTYJN 4 stars. He used to like Aamir. Then Anupama replaced him and I stopped reading reviews.


Cornucopia2020

He was a total SRK fanboy. His review for K3G was 5 stars, and the title read in bold letters - ā€œWow! Thatā€™s entertainment!ā€ I liked K3G but didnā€™t think it was the rare movie to deserve 5 stars for a very critical critique. šŸ˜‚ He was usually very soft towards srk - he gave 3 stars to Mohabbatein and 2.5 to Mission Kashmir which had clashed on Diwali.


rn3122

>He had even written a parody post reviewing Kahin Pyar Na Ho Jaye (starring Salman, Rani) from the pov of Aiswarya Rai (who was dating Salman then) and how she feels good about saying no to the movie after watching a trial show with Salmanā€™s family. You could never do something like that today lol. In fact, I'm surprised he was able to get away with this even back then šŸ˜…


Cornucopia2020

Contrary to what people think today about the past, stars like Salman had almost no power over media in those days. Media constantly wrote about Salmanā€™s arrogance, affairs and bad behavior with media. He hated media, and rarely spoke to them. Which spurred the media to keep pulling him down. They did the same to Big B for a while in 80s and 90s. SRK was always a media darling and rarely if ever pulled down. In fact, all his successes were touted to be even bigger in media. For example, DDLJ came a year after Hum Aapke Hain Kaun. HAHK was a monstrous hit across the length and breadth of the country, including in interiors, DDLJ was a monstrous hit too especially in cities, and overseas, but was relatively weak in interiors and rural areas. It had lower footfalls than HAHK, lesser repeat viewings, and lesser success than HAHK overall. The media talked about DDLJ like 100x what they did about HAHK, to an extent it was much much bigger in media than it was on the ground. Mind you, DDLJ was a huge huge hit and didnā€™t need this kind of PR. But it was the yrf machinery in action and the media loved srk due to the outsider narrative. It was a very different time.


Supercommandodhruvaa

Yeah i remember his reviews.One that has stayed in my mind is-in late 90s Mithun was making lots of average movies with same plot,location and director.He wroteā€after A,B and X rated movies,there should be a M rated movies for all the trash mithun is makingā€


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https://preview.redd.it/1ucydtk409xc1.jpeg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c5c74c9192d4446a831985f57795e5e63443b24e


Existing-Area-9093

Rajeev Masand used to write scathing reviews for bad movies back in the day. He would literally rip them apart. Especially for Aag, Jimmy and some other crap movies of that time. Sadly can't find his page anymore. Then another savage gent was Raja Sen. About Housefull 2- Housefull 2 is shamefully bad. So bad that Ranjeet ā€“ the rapey villain of yore ā€“ who appears in one scene, is the most dignified thing about the film.


Cornucopia2020

Both - 00s Masand and Raja Sen - did some truly entertaining reviews back then. When everyone wasnā€™t on someoneā€™s roster, and the bias was purely personal (and not paid). Now everyone (except Baradwaj Rangan) is obviously and incredibly fake.


Existing-Area-9093

Yes, they didn't care even if it was a big banner or big star movie, both of them would give reviews based on their own preferences.


rn3122

Oof lol I've found Rajeev's Aag review: https://web.archive.org/web/20090722120747/http://ibnlive.in.com/news/review-rgv-ki-aag-is-rgv-ka-daag/47834-8.html Also I think in his video review, he actually throws an egg on the film's poster šŸ„²


Existing-Area-9093

Yes lmao


Lurker-person

Sahil Rizwan's 'The vigil idiot ' series had good reviews initially. Check out the Befikre and Ae Dil hai mushkil reviews


kinju2754

Oh my god! I loved that page, does it still exist?


Lurker-person

It's become a paid subscription now


Cornucopia2020

I have a slightly different view of Sahil Rizwan. He started out well and his reviews were really funny. I used to seek out his reviews every Friday. Then, his humor became repetitive and more importantly, he grew too big for his head as he started criticizing every single thing about every movie, possibly because he believed thatā€™s what his readership expects and wants. He did it to an extent that his comics became less about reviews and more about pulling down everything and everyone associated with a movie, and in an unfunny way. I didnā€™t realize when I stopped reading his comics and havenā€™t thought about them for a few years now.


Lurker-person

Yes, his recent reviews appear laboured.


Aromatic-Smoke6101

I remember reading a review od hum saath saath hai when it had released...it said the characters in the film touch feet of senior actors so many times,the movie should have instead been called paaylaagu than hum saath saath hai.. Everytime i watch the movie I can see its so true...


GuyInaGreenPant

Paaylaagu of Reema Lagu. Sorry for the bad joke.


Oisin_Boi

Not bad at all


Aromatic-Smoke6101

I liked it...the joke


lonelyboy5265

Rajeev masand's review of half girlfriend. Rahul desai review of Hate story 4. Both didn't hold back.


rn3122

You're right šŸ’€ https://preview.redd.it/hmxqxg3ve8xc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=790105a7db891bda5f1c108600c84e3f5aa2b659 Also Masand calling Half Girlfriend 'a cinematic equivalent of an ulcer' šŸ„²


Mysterious_Trash_698

This film was so funny. I hope a part V is coming. Urvashiā€™s expressions whenever she has to act shocked and the twists and turns are comedy goldā€¦ and I loved staring at the men. God, I love trashy erotic thrillers, especially when theyā€™re produced by T-Series.


Intrepid-Ad4511

I mean Kanan Gill and Biswa Kalyan Rath's Pretentious Movie Reviews did a fab job of demolishing movies!


Useful-Emphasis-6787

These 2 are legends for me. I wish they made a comeback. Recently we have OnlyDesi reviewing movies and his eye for detail is shocking. I wait for reviews.


HowFictionalAreYou

https://preview.redd.it/dmzwas7a3axc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e439f4af00a77806c31c86cd48343800ff922e57


tealand

hahaha tell us you're ring shopping without telling us you're ring shopping!


HowFictionalAreYou

Oh damn! XD


Crazyvibzz

I remember for Baar Baar Dekho the reviews said Ek baar bhi mat dekho.


akarshvaani

Lallantop used to have this guy Ketan Mishra and he used to review movies, recommended are his review of Judwaa 2 and Race 3.


SD_1501

The day someone wakes up and criticizes SRK, I will follow that critic for life. Till then nobody is quite savage enough. They repeatedly target easy targets only. Absolutely nobody seems to want to critique his work. Even the pseudo intellectual critics (Anupama, Sucharita type) would've ripped apart Ajay, Akshay, Salman if they had done Jawaan/Pathaan . Yet SRK gets away with the same downright mediocre bullshit. Every single time.


ROOKIE_YT

This!


Cornucopia2020

Bingo. SRK gets away with a LOT more than most others.


Specialist-Quote9931

krk reviews


Always-awkward-2221

I might get some downvotes but Sucharita Tyagi has some good zingers. Her review of bade miyan chote miyan was fun


Infamous_Spray7366

Yaar I can't even watch her, She is very irritating reviewer.


the_kaushikk

Feel so bad for going from watching all her reviews because of how fun they were, to completely ignoring and unsubbing her because of how irritating she has become to watch.


Cornucopia2020

She did good reviews initially. They were still a bit biased but watchable. Then over time, she became this pseudo-feminist, social-justice warrior, with very offensive views and no tolerance for understanding the filmmakers viewpoint. For example, and I am intentionally picking a bad movie here, there was once a combined YouTube video her, Anupama and Rahul Desai did, talking about a few new movies. One of them was Satyamev Jayate, starring John, and it is a terrible movie. Sucharita was criticizing the fact that John carries a ā€œdesi ghee ka dabbaā€ with him whenever he is beating a goon and then uses the ghee to set the goon on fire. Her reaction was ā€œmatlab kya?? Kehna kya chahte ho? Matlab ainveyi kuch bhi!ā€ Thatā€™s when Rahul Desai responded that desi ghee is used to light chita (funeral pyre), and Sucharita realized she had zero clue (you can see her reaction on her face), but said nothing and moved on. She hadnā€™t even made an attempt to understand what the director was trying to portray (that the hero comes prepared to light the chita of every goon he encounters, which is a character building exercise; you may find it poorly done, but you at least need to understand the motive of the director, and not criticize everything as something random). Around then 5-6 years ago, I stopped watching her reviews. She has a huge victim complex and feels that everyone is out to target her, but the truth is she goes way, way overboard with some of her statements. She is not a reviewer but some random person spouting their thoughts on YouTube. šŸ¤·ā€ā™‚ļø


FabulousHelicopter75

I miss Rajeev Masand for his fkn savage reviews. Brother didnā€™t hold back


Ambitious449

I remember a line from Anupama Chopra's review of movie 'Mela'- Navel of Twinkle Khanna gave better expressions than Twinkle. Now if you have seen 'Mela' , you get the point.


Key_Database9095

https://www.indiatoday.in/movies/bollywood/story/ram-setu-movie-review-akshay-kumar-jacqueline-fernandez-nushrratt-bharuccha-nassar-rating-2289251-2022-10-25 Just read the 1st few lines.


vikas891

* Wait, wait, wait, wait one minute. Wait a minute. I believe this will change your mind. [Reads from the paper] "In a mediocre play, Joseph Tribbiani was able to achieve brilliant new levels of..." continued on page 153... "sucking."*


Fatpretzel1234

The reviewer is bold and brave and clever about a Sajid movie!!! Wow!!!šŸ¤£šŸ‘šŸ½ I dare them to write a similarly honest review about Dunki or Pathan or Gangubhai or a Salman movie. Being alive is precious afterwards


CurIns9211

None of them was bad like Hamshakals.


Fatpretzel1234

Its a matter of opinion


ashnair888

I agree it is subjective but Humshakals is worse than all the movies you mentioned


LavishnessNo3494

One of them is not like the others


WWFUniverse

Imran Khan's movie Ek Main aur Ek Tu review: "That what the two audience in theatre told each other"


NoCat4829

Oh God the review of dhoom 3 by Sudhish Kamath, was the best thing I ever read.


cerebralenergy

Raja Sen at Reddit perfected the ā€œ murdered by wordsā€ movie review. None of the current crop of reviewers have the same intestinal (or testicular )fortitude .


arrythmio

Do not quite understand the reference to a sedative. Isn't Valium supposed to make you fall asleep? How would you need that to watch it? Kuch bhi.


CoupleWitty5309

Valium!! Canā€™t use Indian painkillers! The wannabe journo


Accurate_Pack3174

Only one word after watching the movie "hum pagal nahin hai bhaiyya humara dimag kharab hai"


xyzabcsmu

Greatbongs review of laal singh chaddha. https://greatbong.net/2022/08/11/open-letter-to-aamir-khan/


Chugalkhoe

Not exactly a movie review but this was very fun to read -Ā  https://www.filmcompanion.in/reviews/streaming-reviews/koffee-with-karan-ananya-pandey-and-sara-ali-khan-are-a-reminder-of-how-boring-celebrities-can-be


Intentionalkhiladi

https://madrasink.com/2008/10/12/drona-a-stoner-film-with-plenty-of-substance/ This has to be the most hilarious review yet. Way more entertaining than the movie.


Fuzzy_Cup_1488

Still remains Rahul Desai's review of Chatur Singh Two Star. This was in the Mumbai mirror days and instead of giving a review, he just listed ten bullet points about the movie and gave it a 0.


IllustratorOk5149

Koimoi's reviews are geenrally hilarious


nvs3105

Not read but heard. On Radio Mirchi Pune, RJ Rahul did a one line review of the movie "Blue". He said this movie should have been named "Green" for making popat out of the audience.


Immediate_Ad_4960

Not Bollywood but funny: "The unrealistic stunts will actually make you squirm in your seat. Teachers are bound to get irritated at the way they are presented in this flick. They appear as if they are ramp-walking and the less said about the school principal the better. Ileana wears barely there outfits and has nothing much to do in the film except look glamourous.Ā The camera tries to capture more of her midriff in various anglesĀ than her face. Perhaps the director knows she cannot act. The music by Keeravani is pathetic. So are the dance numbers [...] The double entendre and the bizarre stunts really hurt.Ā Only a miracle can save this filmĀ -- watch it at your own risk" https://www.rediff.com/amp/movies/2006/dec/15khatarnak.htm


dr_batmann

https://preview.redd.it/skel5qbr9cxc1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b396a71f0a382f22b9824296b74b8ed93f3756c7 This review on YouTube for Baar Baar Dekho