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Sukanya Verma

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Biography:

Sukanya Verma is a senior film critic, columnist, features writer, quiz maker and Principal Movie Reviewer for rediff.com and its sister publication India Abroad since 1999. She has contributed chapters and essays in various publications, film books and journals. She was awarded with the Best Critic prize at Jagran Film Festival in 2014.

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Aankhon Ki Gustaakhiyan (2025) 27% 1/5 EDIT “The only people Aankhon Ki Gustaakhiyan deems blind is the audience to think they cannot see what poppycock unfolds. ” – Rediff.com Jul 23, 2025 Full Review Aap Jaisa Koi (2025) 40% EDIT “A fanciful air envelopes its modest drama, of a story lost in its own bubble that's only burst by villains in the form of judgemental jerks and heroes in need of rescuing.” – Rediff.com Jul 23, 2025 Full Review Detective Sherdil (2025) 2/5 EDIT “There's less 'who' and more 'who cares' to this whodunit.” – Rediff.com Jul 9, 2025 Full Review Metro... In Dino (2025) 69% 2.5/5 EDIT “Messy musing on metropolitan monotony.” – Rediff.com Jul 9, 2025 Full Review Housefull 5 (2025) 13% 1/5 EDIT “Housefull 5 is the most idiotic thing I've watched this year.” – Rediff.com Jun 10, 2025 Full Review Stolen (2023) 88% 3/5 EDIT “'...captures the harrowing journey of a pair of brothers out of the frying pan and into the fire.'” – Rediff.com Jun 4, 2025 Full Review Bhool Chuk Maaf (2025) 27% 2/5 EDIT “Bhool Chuk Maaf has a fairly well-intentioned premise that's marred by the monotony of its leading man's overkill in the space as well as writer-director Karan Sharma's noisy, callow treatment.” – Rediff.com Jun 4, 2025 Full Review Logout (2024) 3/5 EDIT “Babil’s palpable reactions to invasion of privacy make a strong case for Logout’s plausible scenario.” – Rediff.com May 12, 2025 Full Review Raid 2 (2025) 33% EDIT “Hammy treatment and bombastic score strips the realism to turn Raid 2 into another hail the hero exercise. ” – Rediff.com May 1, 2025 Full Review Jewel Thief - The Heist Begins (2025) 5% 2.5/5 EDIT “Forget smarts or cheek, there’s little novelty to be found in Jewel Thief’s juvenile script, barring its now free usage of the F-word to make it sound all hip and adult.” – Rediff.com Apr 26, 2025 Full Review Kesari Chapter 2: The Untold Story of Jallianwala Bagh (2025) 39% 2/5 EDIT “Playing yet another real life hero with the same righteous rage he’s turned into his calling card, Akshay Kumar's ‘more of the same’ shtick has long lost its appeal. ” – Rediff.com Apr 18, 2025 Full Review Kesari (2019) 35% 3/5 EDIT “Akshay and Action are Kesari's strengths” – Rediff.com Apr 17, 2025 Full Review Chhorii 2 (2025) 1.5/5 EDIT “Spending a bulk of its running time meandering across corridors strewn in silly jump scares and ritualistic gobbledygook, Chhorii 2 frustrates way more than it frightens.” – Rediff.com Apr 14, 2025 Full Review Sikandar (2025) 5% 1/5 EDIT “There's not any effort -- not even a smidgen -- to resurrect a superstar on the wane in Sikandar. ” – Rediff.com Mar 31, 2025 Full Review The Diplomat (2025) 47% 2.5/5 EDIT “The possibilities of this serviceable thriller are immense but the makers prefer to play it safe and hold back the daredevil in the diplomat's clothing.” – Rediff.com Mar 17, 2025 Full Review Be Happy (2025) 50% 2.5/5 EDIT “Choreographer-turned-director Remo D'Souza can sure set the stage on fire but isn't quite the storyteller. ” – Rediff.com Mar 17, 2025 Full Review Nadaaniyan (2025) 12% 2/5 EDIT “Funny how the paparazzi regularly haunting Ibrahim's gym trips capture a far more relaxed and disarming side to his persona than the film.” – Rediff.com Mar 9, 2025 Full Review Mere Husband Ki Biwi (2025) 27% 2/5 EDIT “Between done-to-death tropes and flimsily updated ones, Mere Husband Ki Biwi sticks to ancient formulae yet gives a semblance of keeping up with the times only to confirm that old habits die hard.” – Rediff.com Mar 4, 2025 Full Review Dhoom Dhaam (2025) 56% 2.5/5 EDIT “Dhoom Dhaam is the sort of run-of-the-mill rollercoaster that sponges off all the cliches of the crime comedy genre for an endgame that's foreseeable from a mile even before the ball gets rolling.” – Rediff.com Feb 15, 2025 Full Review Mrs. (2023) 86% 4/5 EDIT “Mrs succeeds in riling you up for all the right reasons. And without resorting to high-pitched drama.” – Rediff.com Feb 15, 2025 Full Review Anuja (2025) 3.5/5 EDIT “It's a mild mannered depiction of a robbed childhood that pulls down its rose-tinted glasses every now and then.” – Rediff.com Feb 7, 2025 Full Review Deva (2025) 46% 2/5 EDIT “Shahid's rippling physicality and unhinged vigour is the only thing that keeps the momentum going in a mediocre rehash dumbed down by flimsy motive and mindless bravado.” – Rediff.com Feb 4, 2025 Full Review Baby John (2024) 29% 2/5 EDIT “Varun Dhawan is still too much of a Baby to be a John.” – Rediff.com Dec 25, 2024 Full Review I Want to Talk (2024) 73% 3.5/5 EDIT “Abhishek Bachchan conveys the numerous chapters and challenges of his mind, body and soul with a never-before candour. ” – Rediff.com Nov 22, 2024 Full Review All We Imagine as Light (2024) 100% 4/5 EDIT “Payal Kapadia's understanding of what it means to be a woman is as poignant as her authentic portrait of Mumbai's hoi polloi. ” – Rediff.com Nov 22, 2024 Full Review
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