Black and White - To Each His Own
20th June 2008 | posted in External Reviews, Hindi Movies, meetu |Looks like youre new here. You may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!
Meetu’s Review: A compilation of absolutely boring lectures delivered by largely dull characters. A half-decent plot ain’t good enough to make a gripping movie.
Rating: Watch if you have nothing better to do
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Here is what 25 other reviewers/viewers think. Average rating 2.1 / 5.0: 6 thumbs up, 9 so-so, 10 thumbs down.
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| Aparajita Ghosh, Apun Ka Choice …Black And White? could easily have fallen into the trap of being a preachy film…. See full review |
B4U TV …While the cinematography is wonderful so is the soulful music by Sukhwinder Singh… See full review |
| Jaspreet Pandohar, BBC …A MOCKERY OF AN IMPORTANT MATTER… See full review |
Baradwaj Rangan, Blogical Conclusion, The New Sunday Express …Black & White is itself all black and white ? an all-upper-case, yellow-highlighted, 48-point-size plea for communal harmony with zero subtlety, zero shades of grey… See full review |
| Aaina Sharma, Bollywood Mantra …There are several unwanted diversions like the romantic track which does not fit well into the film… See full review |
Fatema H Kagalwala, Business of Cinema …Despite umpteen temptations to theorize, sermonise and take sides the film masterfully resists all of them… See full review |
| Preeti Arora, Buzz18 …Full credit to Ghai and his courageous attempt at experimenting with a new genre and drastically changing his style of direction!… See full review |
Smriti Mudgal, DearCinema …You want to shoot yourself for not believing the critics who warned you enough to not watch the movie… See full review |
| Angel Rani, Deccan Herald …What peps up the show is vintage wine Anil Kapoor with a performance only actors of his breed can pull off…. See full review |
Martin D’souza, Glamsham.com …Anurag Sinha is coldness personified; he emotes well with his eyes and body language… See full review |
| Khalid Mohamed, Hindustan Times …If you’re impressed by this zoom-in on a suicide bomber (Anurag Sinha), it’s because it touches upon that rarely-discussed aspect of fanaticism… See full review |
Nikhat Kazmi, IndiaFM …A word about debutant Anurag Sinha: too linear a performance to impress…. See full review |
| Taran Adarsh, IndiaFM …Directorially, Ghai rises beyond the script and has canned a number of sequences well…. See full review |
Indiaglitz …Shefali Shah is very good too and compliments Anil by portraying a realistic wife… See full review |
| Gaurav Malani, indiatimes … A kind of monotony sets in with the one-dimensional approach of the story and repetitive shots of Dilli gully, metro trains, Numair?s black pathani attire and the professor?s super safed poshak (perhaps the director?s way of symbolizing the Black and White characters)…. See full review |
Mayank Shekhar, Mumbai Mirror …He hasn’t much of a revealing story to tell or full-bodied characters to engage with, nor a control over craft to weave either into a coherent film; never mind a powerful one… See full review |
| musicNmovies.info …The biggest culprit in the movie was its deja vu predictable script…. See full review |
Jahan Bakshi, Now Running.com …If ‘Kisna’ and ‘Yaadein’ weren’t proof enough, Subhash Ghai’s latest film puts it literally in ‘Black & White’- the man is clearly past his prime…. See full review |
| Subhash K Jha, Now Running.com …And what was the need to make Anil-Shefali’s little daughter mute? Maybe Ghai wanted us to take the Black part of his film’s title seriously…. See full review |
Jaykumar Shah, Planet Bollywood …A clich?d, if I may use the word, pathetic characterization, a terrible screenplay …and a dragging treatment to the movie take all the focus off of the good intentions that the movie had…. See full review |
| Hanumant Bhansali, Radio Sargam …Milind Gunaji is good… See full review |
Raja Sen, Rediff …The ever-excellent Anil Kapoor gets to sink his teeth into a fine role and delivers a strong performance, with more than his share of emotionally high-strung moments…. See full review |
| Sonia Chopra, Sify Movies …While the film attempts to glimpse into the thinking of a suicide bomber, it also goes onto a parallel track of patriotism…. See full review |
Upper Stall …Anil Kapoor tries hard to rise above constraints beyond his control, but a sketchy screenplay lets him down repeatedly…. See full review |
| Urge to Fly …While it is a little embarrassing to re-discover that I used to write in such a clich?d and blatantly sermonizing manner, it helps me be a little more charitable towards the film… See full review |