| Grade & Score (?) |
C (54%)
Avg Rating: 2.71/5 (54%) from 29 Reviews |
| Reviews (?) |
29 Reviews Counted: 16 Good / 5 Average / 8 Bad
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| Cast |
Aishwarya Rai, Naveen Andrews, Robbie Coltrane, Miranda Richardson and Nandita Das |
| Director |
Jagmohan Mundhra |
| Release Date |
April 06, 2007 |
| Box Office Status |
Flop |
Synopsis
Despite an honorable message and well intentions, the film fails to live up to expectations with shoddy direction.
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Reviews
| Good Reviews | Average Reviews | Bad Reviews |
| 4.0 |
"if missed it, you would miss a lot!"
- Express India |
| 4.0 |
"An absolute must see"
- Bollyvista |
| 4.0 |
"will go in the history as a landmark for all the people associated with it. A must watch for the weekend"
- Mag 4 You |
| 3.5 |
"is larger than a film, it is a show reel of life, celebrate it"
- Business Of Cinema |
| 3.5 |
"is not the right kind of film for movie goers seeking just pure entertainment, but for those who love to see honestly executed realistic films it definitely doesn't disappoint on any counts"
- Indya.com |
| 3.5 |
"a hard hitting film which lingers in your mind"
- BBC |
| 3.0 |
"a low-key message movie, but it still packs a punch"
- Time Out |
| 3.0 |
"avoids sentimentality and illustrates how one woman's bravery helped fuel a nationwide crusade and irrevocably altered British laws on domestic violence"
- BBC Films |
| 3.0 |
"a strong, deeply moving statement about one woman's struggle against overwhelming odds"
- NDTV |
| 3.0 |
"Watch it for Ash, de-glamourised and quite arty"
- Times Of India |
| 3.0 |
"It's not a great film by any standards but it's well intended and it goes about its job with sincerity, and sometimes, just sometimes, that's enough"
- IBN Live |
| 3.0 |
"a no frills film told simply and for that 3 stars it is"
- Times Now |
| 3.0 |
"answers the complicated question of domestic disharmony with a deft and direct approach to the question of a woman's place in the man's scream of things"
- Subhash Jha |
| 3.0 |
"won't exactly send you into emotional frenzies and hyperventilation, but yeah, if you have been wondering whether beating up your wife is a good idea or not, it will solve that confusion"
- MTV India |
| 3.0 |
"In the end, you come out of the theatre feeling more about the issue rather than the person"
- Rediff |
| 3.0 |
"a sincere film"
- Now Running |
| 2.5 |
"is a film that tells a story, makes you sympathize with the real life character who had gone through the plight and then move on"
- IndiaGlitz |
| 2.5 |
"does manage to touch the audiences heart, but a better screenplay would have taken the film a notch higher"
- Bollywood Mantra |
| 2.5 |
"works in bits and pieces but in totality it fails to leave an impact"
- RadioSargam |
| 2.5 |
"is more a quality meller, with clearly defined heroes and villains, than a slice of social realism. But for viewers prepared to go with the flow, it works at a gut, movie-movie level"
- Variety |
| 2.5 |
"is decent enough but stilted and uncertain, and it doesn't get beneath the surface of the Indian community"
- The Observer |
| 2.0 |
"a film that has some strength in the central theme and story and moves forward with just that. I just wish it was better presented, and had a better screenplay"
- Full Hyderabad |
| 2.0 |
"the result looks as tiresome as one of the guards in the British prison, where it is largely located"
- Hindustan Times |
| 2.0 |
"a film made with good intentions but not good enough sensitivity. The movie does work in patches, but it fails to leave the hard-hitting impact that it should have to justify its incredibly important subject"
- ApunKaChoice |
| 2.0 |
"at best is mediocre and at times quite tacky"
- Outlook India |
| 2.0 |
"Mundhra has an ace up his sleeve but fails to deliver it, thanks to the casting which is found wanting"
- Glamsham |
| 1.5 |
"rests on a lackluster screenplay and that's its biggest flaw"
- IndiaFM |
| 1.0 |
"this naively soapy storytelling both insults the intelligence of the audience and trivialises the issue of spousal abuse that Ahluwalia came to represent"
- Times Online |
| 1.0 |
"Rai is unequal to the task of showing rage, preferring simpering victimhood throughout"
- The Guardian |
