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Aiyyaa
Critic reviews and ratings
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It's arresting, amusing, entertaining and of course, thoroughly enjoyable, with Rani's splendid act, refreshingly different plot, winsome songs, pleasant humor and terrific moments as its aces.
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This quirkily entertaining film is recommended for those who often find themselves delightfully blurring between dreams and reality, and especially for those who want to get a taste of it.
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It careens from the dreamy to the delirious, the realistic to the raucous, and the perfectly logical to the utterly nonsensical as it turns many a time-honoured convention of Hindi commercial cinema on its head.
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...is triumphant because its originality matches the director’s assured film-making. Kundalkar is a director with a confident, uninhibited stamp.
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If you like entertainment with a twist, Aiyyaa is perfectly wakda.
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If the story and characters had not been stretched so much, Aiyyaa could have been special.
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Even with such a talented ensemble, this one turns into a cultural showpiece, and gets lost in translation. That's the sad-partumm!
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Though the film is limited by cheesy dialogues and prosaism, it proves to be an entertainer and a definite treat for every Rani Mukerji fan.
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Till a certain stage, the film is endearing. But by the time the film gets to its unrealistic, improbable, unimaginable and impractical climax, it has turned utterly butterly bizarre.
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...is at best an original and promising experiment let down by its many indulgences.
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Kundalkar got lost between a mad-cap comedy and wanting to portray a young Marathi girl with her zest for life to make it big on her own. Sometimes, comedy is good when it is used in the right doses but when it is overdone, it borders on obscenity.
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Where weird goes terribly wrong and comes across as a desperate attempt to become quirky funny.
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Not even feisty Rani can salvage this one. Sad, because she tries her best.
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...parts of Aiyyaa have energy and passion. But it is drowned by the insistence on being wakda - crooked. Clearly wackiness can't carry a film.
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Rani Mukerji gives it her all. She's in every frame, and is undeniably good to watch.
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...though by no means a misfire, is more fun to chew on than digest.
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While it isn’t so much a fresh idea as an idea making a comeback, it could have been well-executed if Meenakshi’s character had been fleshed out to some extent.
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...gets ludicrous and obtuse in trying to be clever and irreverent!
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Writer-director Sachin Kundalkar has no clue how to tie up the ends of the mad film he’s made.
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...a flat, heavy-footed clomp through screechy lines and overstated, dragged-out situations.
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...mixes Bollywood conventions with some originality but with a very amateurish treatment. And it is precisely this that takes all the fun out of an otherwise interesting package.
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There is no way to find fault with Rani but she is shockingly let down by the storyline.
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...a major disappointment coming from the production house of Anurag Kashyap and from the once upon a time highly revered actress Rani Mukerji.
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Wake up-um, makers... and smell the oothappam. This is not a plot-um that lends itself to be watched for this long-um.
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