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Angrezi Mein Kehte Hain

18 May 2018Hindi1h 44m

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Critical reception for Angrezi Mein Kehte Hain is mixed, leaning toward lukewarm.

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A family drama that explores the change in the relationship between a middle-aged couple.

Critic Consensus

Critical reception for Angrezi Mein Kehte Hain is mixed, leaning toward lukewarm. Sanjay Mishra's performance and the Varanasi setting drew consistent appreciation, with some critics finding warmth in the film's depiction of marital familiarity and its restrained narrative approach. However, a majority of critics faulted the script for failing to deliver on the premise's potential, with complaints ranging from it feeling formulaic and facile to lacking genuine insight into love and marriage. A few reviewers found it watchable but ultimately unremarkable as a piece of cinema.

6 rated reviews · 2 positive · 4 mixed

Praised: Sanjay Mishra's performance and settingCriticised: Weak, formulaic script

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Critic Reviews (9)

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Anupama ChopraTop Critic· Film Companion
5.0
There is an airport ending, too, but not in the classical sense. Again, the thought is pragmatic and sensitive; distance, at times, is the only way to create space for better engagement. And then you hear his voice, "Not all stories have heroes called Shah Rukh Khan…" – and you instantly know why a movie that thrives on inverting the angrezi of love isn't as novel as it should have been: it is too busy flaunting its humble grammar.
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Shubhra GuptaTop Critic· Indian Express
5.0
Some of the film is pleasing in the way it brings out the dull familiarity that plagues a well-excavated relationship, and both Sanjay Mishra and Ekavali Khanna feel sufficiently lived in.
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IANS· Sify
8.0
This is a small film with a very big heart, enduring in its statement on the erosion of mutual respect in a marriage of convenience, and endearing in its susceptibility to keep the narrative clutter-free when the stakes are piled heavily against a friction-free condition of existence. Oh, and yes. This is a two-hero film. Sanjay Mishra and the city of Varanasi.
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Manisha Lakhe· NowRunning
7.0
A lovely story about love, duty, everyday life set in Benaras. A grouchy, crotchety man who does his duty by his wife and daughter announces that he has arranged for his daughter to be married off. The daughter rebels and questions her dad: do you even know what is love? How the question is answered is this lovely tale of heartache and love and new beginnings.
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Sreehari Nair· Rediff
5.0
What we have here, I guess, is a director who understands how people fight, but has not a clue about how they make love.
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Pallabi Dey Purkayastha· Times Of India
5.0
The problem is not with acting or cinematography, it is the script that makes what could have been an exceptional tale of loss of love, a run-of-the-mill Bollywood masala flick.
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Kennith Rosario· The Hindu
Not rated
Angrezi Mein Kehte Hain is facile instead of an insightful take on arranged marriages
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Murtaza Ali Khan· APotpourriOfVestiges
Not rated
Angrezi Mein Kehte Hain is neither entertaining nor compelling. It is at its best, watchable in parts. Far from a project destined for excellence in cinema, it is rather an excellent example of ordinary filmmaking.
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Nandini Ramnath· Scroll.in
Not rated
Scenes from a marriage that actually isn't worth saving...Sanjay Mishra stars as a rude husband trying to win back the affections of his wife in Harish Vyas's movie.
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Release Date
18 May 2018
Runtime
1h 44m
Language
Hindi
Genre
Drama

User Ratings & Reviews

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Community Reviews (1)

SH
Nov 2019

Harish Vyas's film is filled with romantic comedy. But i doesn't go beyond the great execution of its ideas. Worth watching. But go in with least expectation.

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