• Anupama Chopra
    Anupama Chopra
    Film Companion

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    Sweep And Swagger But Not Enough Soul…The South Korean film on which this is based in a masterclass in melodrama, while this is bloated and inconsistent

  • Rahul Desai
    Rahul Desai
    Film Companion

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    A Greatest Hits Mixtape Of A Fading Superstar…Khan goes from age 8 to 70 in an awkward, episodic narrative that tips its hat to his transformation from Prem to Chulbul to Tiger

  • Crowd-Pleaser For Salman Khan Fans Seeking Recompense For Tubelight

  • Khan is the only thing that matters here, and to Zafar’s credit, he makes the effort to carve out a character that doesn’t depend entirely on the star status of his leading man. “Bharat” is too long, too overdrawn and too maudlin for it to evoke any genuine emotion.

  • Namrata Joshi
    Namrata Joshi
    The Hindu

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    Khan might get to show off his emotional chops with the ever-reliable Tabu for company but it’s Kaif who pleases and almost walks away with the film with her natural, unaffected and winsome ways. Also, for a change, it’s refreshing to find a film in these times, that doesn’t portray former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in a bad light. Some points scored there.

  • An ode to the Salman Khan-Katrina Kaif pairing and little else…Ali Abbas Zafar’s movie sets his hero’s adventures against the backdrop of India’s post-Independence history.