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Aashayein
Critic reviews and ratings
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This is unarguably Kukunoor’s most sensitive and moving work since Iqbal.
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Don't go looking for popcorn stuff and Aashayein is sure to hold your attention with its gentle grace and dignity.
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...the film does not ever jump out at you in a desperate attempt to tug at your heartstrings. It flows along in a nice easy arc – only, at times, too languidly for its own good.
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Give this life-affirming movie a chance. If you believe in hope, you'll like this one.
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...works like many of Kukunoor's successful films -- Hyderabad Blues, Iqbal and Dor -- unique stories that start with good intentions, but eventually the treatments amount to nothing spectacular.
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There is hint of a soul and as fate would have it, the hope dies as the post interval period starts.
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...might be having its heart in the right place but doesn’t entirely appeal to the mind.
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Fails to measure up to what it is inspired from — the most famous 'death' film, Anand.
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...falters and fails on the writing level.
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Despite of superlative performance from John Abraham, the film fails to impress or entertain the audiences.
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...doesn't offer much hope. It only brings Nirashayein.
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While the filmmakers figured their supposedly perfect setting out, a story didn't follow.
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There a few moments when your eyes well up, but it’s not enough in a two hour long film.
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There are many reasons why Aashayein is a difficult film to sit through, but chief among them is its misplaced sense of self-importance.
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Nagesh Kukunoor who gave us Teen Deewarein, Dor, and Hyderabad Blues is dead.
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...severely boring and highly confused.
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Aashayein, whose release was delayed by almost two years, is so hopeless that you wish it had remained in the cans forever.
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What an awful pity. When you see a film cough splutter and gasp its way to a slow painful death right in front of your eyes.
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A tale about fighting cancer? Nearly mistook it for a homage to George Lucas and Steven Spielberg.
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...no entertainment, no message, no perspective, no great story. This one is full of niraashayein.
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...has to be one of the most depressing, incoherent films since a long sadiyan.
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...psychotic assault on the audience’s sensibility, patience and intelligence.
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