The film gets stuck into the very stereotypes and cliches it purports to mock
18 May 2018Given a subject and treatment that showed so much personal sensitivity and demonstrated such good cinematic skills till the halfway mark, this transition to melodrama is both sudden and unfathomable
18 May 2018A charming little film that is very easy on the eyes and the mind
11 May 2018Extremely well paced, there is not a moment in the film when your attention wanders
11 May 2018The movie is a docu-drama that does hold your attention for brief periods of time, but fails to impress overall
05 May 2018It is about two stalwarts of Hindi cinema of the 1970s and 1980s, playing foolish roles in a badly written movie
05 May 2018Too many characters in the movie slows it down to a ponderous pace and scatters the narrative far and wide
28 April 2018One would have expected more political, cultural and cinematic sophistication in a film by Sudhir Mishra
28 April 2018Without doubt, this is the most hopelessly cliched film that Abhay Deol has worked in
20 April 2018It is a film of piquant melodrama, staged in a manner that is quite unlike the style of Majidi
20 April 2018Brahma Chellaney is a geostrategist and the author of two award-winning books on water: Water, Peace, and War and Water: Asia’s New Battleground
MJ Akbar is the author of, among several titles, Tinderbox: The Past and Future of Pakistan. His latest book is Gandhi: A Life in Three Campaigns
TCA Raghavan is a former Indian High Commissioner to Pakistan and Singapore. His first book, Attendant Lords: Abdur Rahim and Bairam Khan: Courtiers and Poets in Mughal India, was awarded the Mohammad Habib Prize by the Indian History Congress. He is also the author of The People Next Door: The Curious History of India’s Relations with Pakistan and History Men: Jadunath Sarkar, G S Sardesai, Raghubir Sinh and Their Quest for India’s Past. His latest book is Circles of Freedom: Love, Friendship and Loyalty in the Indian National Struggle
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