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Happy New Year
Critic reviews and ratings
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...definitely a smash hit film, which has blockbuster written all over it.
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One of the best entertainers of 2014.
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Director Farah Khan offers a fully masaledaar entertainer yet again and as is her style, serves it with a side dish of dollops of delightful self-deprecating humour.
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The story is simple, perched on a lavish canvas - glitzy, glamorous, gorgeous bodies and with self-deprecating humour which stands out and entertains in parts.
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Most will be there to take in the star-studded cast, the visual splendor and laugh on the silly jokes. And Farah Khan delivers on all three counts.
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...is a little more than what you'd expect. A tiny surprise that gives you more of the same, but with some structure - even if it tries do a lot in one go and all of it is predictable.
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...could steal your heart if you don’t use your head. When you wake up the next morning, you probably won’t remember much. Except that you laughed out loud a few times for some strange reason.
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This could have been a much better film if only it had dared to move out of its comfort zone. Happy New Year is a film that’s bound to make you feel good, but trust me, the feeling won’t last.
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...gives you enough reasons to stay inside the hall. But whether all those sequences come together to make a composite whole or reduce the film to yet another mindless potboiler, depends entirely on your perception.
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If its indulgences were trimmed, this might have been a more enjoyable film.
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End of the day, it all boils down to how you watch your film. If you like to have fun and you don’t mind entertainment over cerebral arguments, Farah Khan’s Happy New Year is worth your time.
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We don’t know how much this Diwali release will leave you smiling, but those dazzling lights and eye-popping colours will leave you blinking for sure.
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Team Farah-Shah Rukh are capable of much better in the over-the-top genre that they favour together. Happy New Year is a step down from Om Shanti Om, but if you enjoy boisterous entertainment that is still not entirely mindless, it’s worth a visit.
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And that is the problem with ‘Happy New Year’. Every where you turn, you find a scene, a line, a sequence that is familiar, from Farah’s own ‘Main Hoon Na’ and ‘Om Shanti Om’, and all the others it borrows from.
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If you go and watch Happy New Year, you will surely sit through it but will you walk out smiling? I can't take that guarantee.
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There is no dearth of gloss in Happy New Year, but everything else in the film, including the content and its treatment, are allowed to go for a toss.
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...never gets to soar.
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...relentless cannibalisation (and self-cannibalisation) is a pity because Farah’s real talent lies in the mad bits she cooks up...
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Surely, smarter films can be constructed with such resources, thereby opening up a new universe of possibilities for viewers and distributors alike.
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I have a very high tolerance level for anything Shah Rukh is in, and yet Happy New Year was a slog.
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Irreverence is one thing. Disrespect is another. And maybe this time Farah Khan will find that when the line between the two is blurred, the joke is on the person who is cracking it.
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It held the promise of making fine art out of stupidity, yet went back on it.
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So what is new here? Nothing really! The same references to past movies; The same 'mera baap chor hai' revenge story; The same inconsequential dance songs.
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Even if you ignore the inane antics of an ageing star, this film is too sneery by half.
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So much staleness, packed into a running time of 3 hours, is revolting even to the brain-dead stupor that we, fans of Hindi movies, sometimes habitually get into just for the sake of time-pass entertainment.
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