| Good Reviews | Average Reviews | Bad Reviews |
| 3.0 |
"If you enjoyed … Sholay and Don … you should enjoy this"
- South Africa Daily News |
| 2.5 |
"here's only one improvement on the original: Abhishek Bachchan stepping into Jalal Agha's shoes and doing the Mehbooba jig with Urmila"
- Times Of India |
| 2.0 |
"might work for teenagers who haven't seen Sholay but for those of us who've savored the original film not once but ten, twenty, thirty times, RGV Ki Aag is an exercise in futility"
- NDTV |
| 2.0 |
"more of a damp squib"
- BBC Films |
| 2.0 |
"a pointless remake that serves up camp in an unapologetic binge"
- Deccan Herald |
| 2.0 |
"a colossal disappointment, one of the biggest letdowns I have seen in my entire lifetime"
- AllBollywood.com |
| 2.0 |
"comes as a half baked product which does have it's moments but sadly they are far and few"
- IndiaGlitz |
| 2.0 |
"a half-baked attempt at recreating the magic of Bollywood's most popular film"
- MTV India |
| 2.0 |
"is brilliantly shot but in the process of adapting and adjusting the original, the sequences turn out to be very bland and the modifications fall on your face"
- IndiaTimes |
| 2.0 |
"has a strong first half, but a lengthy and violent second half plays a spoilsport"
- IndiaFM |
| 2.0 |
"When old classic songs are remixed, more often than not, the new version lacks the essence of the original. Much in a similar fashion, this remix version of 'Sholay' misses that mark"
- Bollyvista |
| 2.0 |
"the original elements of Aag are what work the most, and everything that has been aped from Sholay is what falls flat, making the flaws glaring"
- Movie Talkies |
| 2.0 |
"Varma’s tribute succumbs to disastrous screenplay and editing"
- RadioSargam |
| 2.0 |
"At best, it is tedious; at worst, it is infuriating to sit through, as it left me squirming that an all-time masterpiece should receive such shoddy treatment"
- South Africa Sunday Times |
| 2.0 |
"One star for supernova Mohanlal and another for Amar Mohile’s pulsating background score"
- Screen India |
| 2.0 |
"does not strike the same flames as the original"
- BBC |
| 2.0 |
"Varma has steered the original material through murky waters to give "Sholay" a new-age look, albeit a look that's more bleak than bright"
- Subhash Jha |
| 2.0 |
"The direction of Ram Gopal Varma is showing a downward trend after giving such memorable films as Satya and Sarkar"
- Magna Mags |
| 1.5 |
"None of the characters are fleshed out. All come across as superficial and their motivations unclear"
- Without Giving The Movie Away |
| 1.5 |
"is total letdown even as a film by itself and is below average"
- Bollywood Mantra |
| 1.5 |
"There is basically no original script as the whole plot has been directly lifted from the 1975 Ramesh Sippy classic with the only changes being the places and the names. And sadly that is just not good enough"
- Indya.com |
| 1.5 |
"one of the biggest disappointments of the year, if not the biggest"
- BollySpice |
| 1.0 |
"Ram Gopal Varma Ki Aag se bhaag"
- Mid-Day |
| 1.0 |
"The best tribute the audience can pay is to stay away from this fire that simply has no spark"
- Andhra Cafe |
| 1.0 |
"kudos to RGV for trying to do something that others could not even dream of but a big kick on his butt for making such a hoax"
- Movie Walah |
| 1.0 |
"Varma rejigs Ramesh Sippy’s Sholay for 2007, and comes up with a clunker"
- The Indian Express |
| 1.0 |
"Speaking objectively without thinking of Sholay, Ram Gopal Varma Ki Aag is a terrible film"
- Full Hyderabad |
| 1.0 |
"unmitigated disaster. Divorce it for a while, for the sake of fairness, from the perfection of Sholay, and it still fails to engage"
- Cybernoon |
| 1.0 |
"has nothing to carry back home"
- Mag 4 You |
| 1.0 |
"Don’t get caught in this fire"
- Glamsham |
| 1.0 |
"this card-boarded mawkishness appears at best closer to Varma's Shiva than Sippy's Sholay"
- Mumbai Mirror |
| 1.0 |
"undoubtedly one of the worst gangster movies made in the country including those that figure in the B-grade and C-grade classification"
- DNA India |
| 1.0 |
"A yawny first half and an OK-in-parts second half is what this film offers"
- Business Of Cinema |
| 1.0 |
"a letdown. The movie only reminds you how great and matchless the real ‘Sholay’ was and is"
- ApunKaChoice |
| 1.0 |
"disappoints in every department. Entertainment-wise too it has nothing much to offer"
- Now Running |
| 1.0 |
"RGV falters big time and as usual its us who lose of time and money"
- Music 'N Movies |
| 1.0 |
"The movie of the millennium is reduced to a mockery"
- MeriNews |
| 1.0 |
"There's no smoke, no fire in this Aag. Only ashes- from under which I really hope Ram Gopal Varma rises again, like the proverbial phoenix"
- Now Running 2 |
| 1.0 |
"a silly joke. The only problem is that you don't feel too much like laughing. Because you are too busy fighting off extreme boredom"
- Times Now |
| 1.0 |
"a below average product that desevers to be rejected by the audience"
- IndiCine |
| 1.0 |
"A boring homage to Sholay"
- Rediff 2 |
| 1.0 |
"This Aag is sure to leave Ramu’s Factory incinerated"
- Jam |
| 1.0 |
"It's the director's most depressingly disappointing work"
- Rediff |
| 1.0 |
"Sholay set new benchmarks in entertainment; Aag is content at remaining just another bad film"
- Outlook India |
| 1.0 |
"isn’t masala; it’s a mess"
- Baradwaj Rangan |
| 0.5 |
"this Lifetime’s Worst Ever Movie Award goes to Ram Gopal Varma ki Aag"
- Hindustan Times |
| 0.0 |
"Not only does Ramgopal Varma Ki Aag fail as a remake of Sholay, it's a pretty bad effort even as a stand-alone film"
- IBN Live |
