Sandip Sinha

Why spend a filthy amount of money (Rs. 600 crores) for a not so good movie full of VFX inspirations from Hollywood blockbusters? Kalki is yet to be born in this sequel. South Indian blockbusters are becoming boring now with unnecessary sequels when the entire story could be depicted in a single movie without mindless extensions.

It is really astonishing how a talented actress like Radhika Apte could act in a clueless movie with a shabby script, illogical storyline, pathetic direction and editing....and why choose Kolkata for such nonsensical films?

An ambitious but blatantly disrespectful attempt to pay homage to the maestro in re-imagining Ray's four short stories considering the present times. Only the first three (Forget Me Not, Bahurupiya and Hungama Hai Kyon Barpa ) stand out to some extent due to decent scripts, above average acting skills displayed by Ali Fazal, Kay Kay Menon, Monoj Bajpai and Gajraj Rao, and quite good direction by Srijit and Abhishek. But the last one (Spotlight) is a disaster with a pathetic script, dumb, expressionless and horrible performance by Harshavardhan Kapoor (seems he got casted simply being a star-kid, he knows nothing about acting at all) and senseless direction. Chandan Roy Sanyal's performance is the only positive. If Ray was to watch these modern (American) adaptations of his brilliant Indian stories he would have fainted.

A touching movie with good story, good acting , good songs and great direction by a lady-director. Why do such good movies get lower ratings than the big-starrer trash movies? Simply bcos most of the so called popular movie critics ( and pathetically biased ) are paid hefty amounts by the big banners. The general public should watch these kind of lower budget movies with unique stories without reading the biased critical comments of the useless movie critics.

This masterpiece from Soojit Sircar is simply Oscar-material comparable to any Hollywood classic. A detached yet heartfelt story-telling about the life of a forgotten Indian hero. It seems Vicky Kaushal has been born to play the character of Sardar Udham Singh. The high-level "nautanki baaji" in almost all other patriotic movies is simply non-existent here.

This is a purely "fictionalised" biopic of the legendary woman cricketer Mithali Dorai Raj with distorted names of fellow cricketers and facts. Such cinematic and unauthentic biopics cast serious doubts on which facts to believe or not. Jhulan Goswami (fictionalised as Jharna Ghosh) debuted three years after Mithali. Chandrakanta Kaul (fictionalised as Sukumari Marhawa) under whose captaincy Mithali debuted for the Indian cricket team and who has spoken highly about Mithali, has been turned into a villain. Mr. Sampath Kumar, Mithali's coach, died in a motorcycle accident in 1997 and not just before her ODI debut in 1999 against Ireland in Milton Keynes as shown in the movie. Even the character of Noori seems to be purely fictional. The list of distorted facts is endless. If the purpose of the movie is to depict the true fact of BCCI (CAI in the movie)'s repugnant gender discrimination in cricket, then any fictionalised story would have been feasible without resorting to a distorted biopic of an iconic woman cricketer. On a brighter note, Tapasee Pannu has lent much better credentials to Mithali's character in this movie than the incorrigible Anushka Sharma as Jhulan Goswami in Chakdah Express.

Could not even finish watching this 3rd rated movie. Wished Akshay had not wasted his talent and time.

The film, though quite slow at times, is best for the witty riddles. Kaushik Sen being portrayed as a dark character is becoming too much cliche. The worst casting is that of the so-called renowned stage actor Gautam Halder. His acting in movies is SIMPLY PATHETIC- he should either attend an workshop for film-acting conducted by the brilliant Anirban Bhattacharjee (the only actor for which this movie should be watched) or stop acting in movies.