Avanika Agarwal

What a delight! It may not be a cinematically ground breaking film, but it is not very far off from that mark. A breezy paced biopic, brilliantly well-acted by Vicky Kaushal . There were no dull moments, it pulls at your heart strings just enough without falling back on any biopic cliches and maintains a clear narrative structure. I really enjoyed seeing the battle scenes - no cheap CGI and just really well shot. Special mention of "Badhte Chalo" - a song that features battle cries of many regiments of the Indian Army. This movie deserves to be enjoyed on the big silver screen. 🙌

If you're sense of entertainment is a pointless story with messed up morality, chauvinistic philosophy used to justify mindless action and violence in the name of entertainment, sprinkled with symbolism of our culture and all its extremes - go for this movie. Its as mindless as any Sallu bhai film, etc it takes itself very seriously with all those homages to Tarantino and South Indian action classics. Its nothing new, regurgitated wet dream of boys who think men are being forgotten

I really really hope they don't cancel this. It's very rare (especially after a series of recent disappointments) to get a Good fantasy show. The production value and story telling is just improving every season. For once, I am preferring the adaptation over the books!

It may not be pitch perfect every step of the way, but 5 stars are very well deserved for being probably the only series of this kind of Indian origin. When was the last time an Indian piece of visual storytelling featured sci-fi without resorting to random monsters or simplistic plots? When was the last comedy series made that featured an original plot line and pushes the envelope of Indian language comedy? To combine all of this with philosophy and hope and brilliantly cute characters and references - this is truly worth watching!!

The first movie being made on an important Indian figure deserves more than highlighting her colorful life. She gave a lot to the world, to Indians, to children and society. They should have just titled this "Shakuntala Devi's daughter - a vindication movie". Any scene that could possibly shine light on her genius and contributions is side-lined into a montage or cut short with narrative dialogues and instead spends time exploring what it means to be a mother? There is no harm in exploring mother-daughter relationships. By all means pray do so; it is something that furthers the cause of women empowerment to let women know they can play a role of their choice and follow their dreams. But by choosing to create a very public spectacle of a person Indians don't know much about, especially a woman in a STEM environment, I feel they have failed at exactly what they probably think they have achieved. They have shown that a movie made by women, of a woman, based on a tale by a woman is exactly that - it can not rise above its "woman-ness" and narrate any other tales. She is still in a prison of our own making. Even a strong actress like Vidya Balan doing her powerful, colorful, energetic, hilarious best can not save a bad script. It is sad that Indian filmmakers must resort to such tactics lest audiences finding it boring because it involves the words woman and mathematics. We get only one shot at first impressions. This will be our legacy - in 2020 this is how Indians exhibit their pride for their trailblazers.