• Shubhra Gupta
    Shubhra Gupta
    Indian Express

    5

    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.

  • Anupama Chopra
    Anupama Chopra
    Film Companion

    5

    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.

  • What we have here, I guess, is a director who understands how people fight, but has not a clue about how they make love.

  • 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.

  • Manisha Lakhe
    Manisha Lakhe
    NowRunning

    7

    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.

  • IANS
    IANS
    Sify

    8

    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.

  • Angrezi Mein Kehte Hain is facile instead of an insightful take on arranged marriages

  • Murtaza Ali Khan
    Murtaza Ali Khan
    APotpourriOfVestiges

    -

    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. 

  • 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.