Dus Kahaniyaan - 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: Each of the short stories has a punch at the end. The characters are remarkably developed with about 10 minutes for each story. The subjects chosen are such that everyone is likely to enjoy at least half of the stories
Rating: Wait for video release
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Here is what 23 other reviewers/viewers think. Average rating 2.8 / 5.0: 11 thumbs up, 4 so-so, 8 thumbs down.
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| Nikhil Kumar, Apun Ka Choice …The appeal of ?Dus Kahaniyaan? lies in the novelty of its concept…. See full review |
Bollyvista.com …In fact, all the stories, have an extremely grainy look and the characters have jagged edges… See full review |
| Rachel Fernandes, Bollywood Mantra …Also most of the ten short stories have a slightly dark or vague or abstract concept which makes the audience want to stay way from it…. See full review |
Fatema H Kagalwala, Business of Cinema …The seemingly intriguing experiment of putting together ten stories and not connecting them visually or otherwise holds a simple desire to tell powerful stories with a human interest… See full review |
| Rajeev Masand, Business of Cinema …with nothing at all to rein them in, no boundaries whatsoever to work within, several of the stories turn out bizarre, abstract and pretty much pointless,… See full review |
Bikas Mishra, DearCinema …Though after a while you could see some kind of a pattern in all the storie… See full review |
| Indu Mirani, DNA …But the viewer gives ?Dus Kahaniyaan? 10 such chances and as Gabbar Singh would say, ?Phir bhi khalli haath waapis aagaye.?… See full review |
Khalid Mohamed, Hindustan Times …This is the worst of the lot directed by Apoorva Lakhia, who also obsesses over a fat lady in a gold bikini… See full review |
| Taran Adarsh, IndiaFM …the number of interesting kahaniyaan in DUS KAHANIYAAN outnumber the not-too-interesting ones and that’s what goes in its favor…. See full review |
Indiaglitz …Sanjay F. Gupta?s camerawork mixed with visual effects add the right tones in this mildly-interesting yet off-beat track…. See full review |
| Praveen Lance Fernandes, indiatimes …Maybe every tale is not gripping but about seven of the ten are not bad… See full review |
Indicine …Rice Plate and Gubbare are the best and that itself is worth the price of the ticket…. See full review |
| Abhijit Mhamunkar, indya.com …While six out of ten stories are good, the rest range from average to okay… See full review |
Sreeram Ramachandran, M TV …Most of the stories have extraordinarily slow and tiresome build ups without a powerful enough twist in the end to justify it… See full review |
| Amit R Agarwal, merinews …Meghna Gulzar?s ?Pooranmashi? was such a strong story, but since it lacks the tension, it just fell flat… See full review |
Movie Talkies …While the entire package of ten is rivetting in itself, not all strike an emotional chord as the Rice Plate, Puranmaas and Gubbare do…. See full review |
| Deepak Venkateshan, Passion for Cinema …please do not see it to see some stories as there are none and it could have just been named ?Dus Bakwaas Rip-offs?… See full review |
Hanumant Bhansali, Radio Sargam …Terrific performances added with slick direction by Sanjay Gupta makes Zahir an interesting watch…. See full review |
| Elvis D’Silva, Rediff …we are shown a little bit of what the future might hold if we allow our lives to go the way they are going…. See full review |
SantaBanta.com …The stories therefore neither cohere nor connect together, but are interesting and often riveting in fragments… See full review |
| Sonia Chopra, Sify Movies …since this is a Sanjay Gupta film, there?s lots of skin (no fully clothed women allowed in Gupta?s films unless they?re over 40), lots of violence, and the mandatory underworld story with lots of gore shore in stylized slow mo… See full review |
Nikhat Kazmi, Times of India … Almost all the stories are deftly told, with the mandatory twist in the climax which keeps you riveted… See full review |
| Upper Stall …Dus Kahaniyan is essentially a collection of amateur shorts spliced together for a private screen of friends and family and nothing more… See full review |