One glance at Rupa's face in the opening strands of Tere Hawaale, and it emerges that Kapoor Khan is playing a woman who starts dying the day she is born. It's not so much a performance as a subdued symphony of wounds.

| Sep 27, 2024

A simple tale about a simple man. But those tunes are dynamite.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 18, 2022

If you have a passing knowledge of Gump, Laal Singh Chaddha is often a strange experience, in places a Gus Van Sant-esque facsimile rather than a remake. But it is not without its charms.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 16, 2022

It’s not just the pace of the film which is the trouble. It is also, centrally and crucially, Sardar Laal Singh Chaddha himself, as played by Aamir Khan.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 12, 2022

The movie’s charms are limited by what comes to feel like a coddling conceit.

| Aug 11, 2022

Assiduously replicating its predecessor’s strengths and weaknesses, the one thing it risks is that a three-word summary – Hindi Forrest Gump – would tell you all you ever needed to know about it.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 10, 2022

Laal Singh Chaddha is Forrest Gump for people who thought the original film was too edgy, and that’s not a good place to be.

| Aug 10, 2022

What remains troubling about the essence of the premise, regardless of its language and cultural context, is that it insinuates the protagonist’s disposition for good and kindness derives from his cognitive disability.

| Aug 9, 2022

Instead of a box of chocolates or the obvious Indian equivalent, the film takes things a step further, adding strong depth and resonance to what could otherwise have been an unremarkable adaptation.

| Original Score: B+ | Aug 9, 2022