Nayan Parmar

Had high expectations considering all the 5 star reviews on Google and as it had 3 idiots actor and Shah rukh Khan. I think all the reviewers get lost in the essence of the film that a innocent scientist is framed for something he didn't do but forget that the film itself is so confusing and non linear. It reminded me of when I used to travel to see family in India and my cousins would talk about a subject amongst each other and it fly over my head cs they talk such mumbo jumbo about the topic that you can't understand what they're talking about. That's what happens in this film. To the ordinary lay man who has no knowledge of rocket engineering, this film flew over my head . They'd talk ab 451 explusion instead of using 253 expulsions etc etc and other things with so much passion but the director forgets that a layman will watch this movie and not understand it. There's one moment where they watch a rocket and you understand wow this needs to fly so you watch thinking 'please fly please fly' and then after so many minutes nothing flies and you think that's not what was meant to happen but it was what they wanted. In a way it tries to portray things like the stephen hawking film 'the therory of everything' but what made that film good was that the layman will never understand the therories and neither did the film attempt to explain any theories but still told a nice story to portray life. This film is opposite. You walk out the 1st half knowing about the scientists great achievements and second half how he gets framed. I still walked out the cinema thinking he got framed for possibly helping Pakistan as this is what's portrayed. Only after the film finished mum explains its about desh bhakti and patriotism and how Indians didn't like this however only find out on wiki that i he got framed for being aspy. It made me wonder whilst watching it why he wouldn't accept the apology from srk. I think the message of the film was there in some confusing way but the film itself was too scientific and not something I would put on TV to watch. Additionally for UK audience it's strange as the trailer is all in English whereas film is part spoken in hindi and part english. Hat's off to Nambi sir though for your contribution to science though. Every reviewer will get caught up in the summary of the great work Nambi did but the movie doesn't reflect this well

Awful movie. Child actors had no magic, carrisma, monotone, unemotional and serious throughout.. the girl acted like an 18 year old but was meant to be like 10. She just stands in every scene with her arms by her sides. No enthusiasm from the boy either like o wow, how amazing I'm actually seeing a flying elephant, but rather o that's nice, next scene. There's a part of the movie which seems so disjointed which looks like theres a w but that was cut out accidently. I cant stand Tim Burtons general style of creating dark films. It was like the entire film besides the sunset scenes were all shot in shadows. No colour, no magic, just dark scenes everywhere. No humour, no songs, just loud orchestra music whilst dumbo flies. Storyline was bad in my opinion. Not a kids movie at all. All the people who rave about how good this film is have either forgotten or never seen real Disney magic. Yet again it shows how uncreative Disney is becoming by creating remakes of things that don't even need to be remade. Why can't they spend the possibly 100 computer cgi creators used to create dumbo to make up an original storyline instead. Nonsense can't go amiss such as when Firth climbs up the vertical circus tent pulling himself up with one hand on a pole as his other arm is an amputee but then he cuts through the tent using a knife to let dumbo out.. I know a flying elephant requires a bit of imagination but pulling yourself with one hand and then pulling out a knife with one hand and standing on a vertical tent.. that's just not even logical. Burton uses his magic again however to create an interesting trailer which is so lovely and bright, with colourful scenes and shots of things which don't even transpire. Such as the mouse.. there isn't even a mouse in the real film. The trailer shows shots of things you remember from the original, the pink elephants scene, dumbo meeting his mum holding trunks etc so you get a sense from the trailer that this movie is a copy of the original story board and just a revamp but none of this actually transpires well in the film. Its a shame how people will go to watch this movie like I did just because they want to relive their childhood memories but it sadly doesn't. Shame they have to recreate aladdin, and lion king this way. Watch, in years to come our kids will be watching Frozen being played by real actors and a virtual reality olef snowman and then we'll all be thinking the same then how unoriginal Disney is. 1* out of 5

Was looking forward to this after enjoying govindas classic. But this is absolute garbage. How do they make a remake of such a good film which is so bad

I watched this thinking itll be like a sequel to hindi medium which was an awesome movie. This movie starts off good with funny beginning scenes so you think yep this films going to be good. The jokes last 10 minutes into the film then it's nonsense. Slow, boring, tries to funny but isn't. Shame they use a previous excellent film to draw people in to watch this rubbish. The whole film is held on irfan khan, and although I watched this because of him.. I think it relies too much of him to move the movie on. Not worth watching.. Just put hindi medium back on.

Fantastic film. Continued from where it left off

How can it be a family film with references to orgasm, intercourse and swear words like m.f? First half was good.. funny.. a nice rolling story. First time watching alia, her acting felt very natural. Ranveer I feel is always ott but he was decent for this movie Not too much over top acting. Second half dragged so much though. Previous reviews are true.. Karan has tried to use the film to teach the public and educate them with lesson after lesson about social taboos whilst trying to add emotion but it just didnt have the same impact as emotional scenes like kkhh k3g mohabbetein. Its attempted but not executed. The second half was disappointing bouncing from one family to the other and seeing each story unravel in the same way but different house. Jaya bachans role is a bit of role reversal with amitabh. She takes over the role of amitabh and replaces all the previous loving motherly roles with a villian role hence why people keep referencing a nostalgic feeling to older johar films. Why do bollywood need to create films like this tho with the educational teach the public a lesson route. The public just wants a nice rom com like the good old days of k3g or kkhh or ddlj. We want movies to help us forget about our lives and transport us to a somewhere else not so that we wake up and see bras differently