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Dedh Ishqiya
Critic reviews and ratings
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It’s a genuinely smart film. It’s beautifully, lovingly shot.
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Director Abhishek Chaubey goes one up with treatment in Dedh Ishqiya, seamlessly fusing his tale of love in the time of intrigue with suspense and humour. He also reserves ample space to excel for each of his talented actors.
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Powerful writing, superb direction and outstanding performances make Dedh Ishqiya a must watch.
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Dedh Ishqiya entertains, but does so in a manner that does not trifle with the intelligence of the audience.
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There's so much to be savoured in the film -- from the performances, aesthetics, music, and the story itself.
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It’s dark, sardonic and funny. Don’t miss 2014’s first great Hindi film.
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The best part of this film is perhaps that there is no compromise whatsoever with the pace, the decadence, the beauty and the purity of the language that a setting of this kind demands.
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Colourful, quirky and ‘dedh’ times better than Ishqiya
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Gorgeously shot, crisply edited, and handsomely mounted, large portions of the film are evocative of a nawabi culture and lifestyle alas seldom seen in the movies now.
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Vishal Bharadwaj's dialogue keeps you in splits.
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...a terrific entertainer...
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Slow, long and yet it balances between taking its poetry too seriously and dumbing it down for our benefit. Only a few spots you wish were polished a tad better.
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Nothing in this film is what it seems. Not even the genre. It’s a thriller, yet it stubbornly refuses to be frenetic, revealing its cards one step at a time, at its very own pace, as if teasing the viewer or cajoling us to forget that there might be another twist coming up.
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...is that rare kind of film that borrows from the Westerns, as much as it does from Indian cinema and even Urdu literature. It’s a curious mix — the best of the West and the East, the old and the new, the classy and the cheap — done seamlessly and effortlessly.
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...falls just a step short of being flawless and that's only because of the Tarantino-esq climax. But in the rest of the portions, the film, as promised, "Dedh" (One and a half) times the fun of the original.
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Abhishek Choubey commendably juxtaposes the decadent royalty with the guns and goons, the modern era with people latching onto the remnants of grandeur, the loyalists with the traitors, the rich Urdu with the coloquial cuss words and so on.
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...is different and it’s audacious – not without its sack of snafus though. It’s a could-see.
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Abhishek Chaubey's direction is sure footed and - like he did with the first film - he pays attention craft, striving for an uncompromised end product. He succeeds by and large.
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...is worth watching just for Abhishek Chaubey's ambition. He is not constrained by the demands of the box office.
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Chaubey’s caper scores with its delectable atmosphere, seeped in culture and music. It’s a world of paan, poetry and protocol, of erudition and affectations. Rarely has crime been served so sodden in nostalgia.
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...makes excellent use of an old genre in Hindi cinema. The ‘muslim social’ was dead and buried by the early 90s, but it is suddenly and most entertainingly revived here...
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There is much to be liked in the film, and I wish all of it had been as good as the scintillating bits.
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...the problem with these Ishqiya movies. There’s so much to savour in them, but they never become what they could have been because the heaviness of the love stories, which are the core, are diminished by the lightness, the cheekiness, the tomfoolery in everything else.
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...is a work of art but with too much of 'attachment'. It does not work when you don't know when to say ''cut''.
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