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Karle Pyaar Karle

17 January 2014Hindi1h 50m
2.6
from 7 scored reviews · 1 not rated

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What critics are saying

Critical consensus on Karle Pyaar Karle is overwhelmingly negative, with reviewers awarding it some of the lowest possible scores.

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Karle Pyaar Karle is a romantic Hindi film whose story is of two childhood friends, Kabir & Preet who have always indulged themselves in daring games. Love and friendship re-emerges when they meet after 12 years but Preet thinks that they are ill-fated and so goes apart from Kabir.

Critic Consensus

Critical consensus on Karle Pyaar Karle is overwhelmingly negative, with reviewers awarding it some of the lowest possible scores. Critics consistently lambasted the film's reliance on tired Bollywood clichés, cardboard characters, and a narrative that feels forced and incoherent. The dialogue was singled out as particularly weak, and multiple reviewers found no redeeming qualities across writing, direction, editing, or performances. Nearly every critic advised audiences to avoid the film entirely.

7 rated reviews · 7 negative

Praised: nothing specifically praisedCriticised: clichéd writing and hollow characters

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Critic Reviews (8)

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Meena Iyer· Times Of India
3.0
The film is full of cliches of mainstream cinema. And the characters, like the parents of the boy, the quiet suffering mother of the girl, the villain who owns a meat factory, his spoilt son, the son's sidekick, are caricatures that have been a part of Bollywood potboilers for eons. It's time to bury these fast and furiously, rather than attempt to glorify them like KPK does.
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Taran Adarsh· Bollywood Hungama
3.0
The effort is to make a hatke love story, hence the team tries to pack just about everything on the shelf: romance [also mandatory songs, skin show and lip locks], adrenaline pumping action, bike stunts et al. However, despite cramming the film with the staple ingredients to woo the spectators, the impact is sorely missing because it appears forced in the scheme of things, instead of seamlessly flowing in the narrative. KARLE PYAAR KARLE is a dull and dreary fare!
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2.0
The dialogue is spectacularly insipid. "Akkal baadam khaane se nahin, thokar khaane se aati hai," is one gem. And then there are the lame retorts that the central character tries passing off as smart-alecky.
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Shakti Shetty· Mid-Day
2.0
Take our word and give this one a miss, or be prepared to lose out on two hours of your life that you will never get back.
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Mansha Rastogi· NowRunning
2.0
...its difficult to fall in love with Karle Pyaar Karle for the simple reason that it's a badly made film with no redeeming factor. Stay away.
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Paloma Sharma· Rediff
1.0
Logic gets suspended here as easily as gravity in space and no one has any motivations for their actions. All's well that ends well, and at least this one ends. Period. The only thing that you will be asking yourself after watching Karle Pyaar Karle is maine pyaar kyun kiya?
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Prathamesh Jadhav· Bollywood Life
0.0
The movie has no plot, with a silly bachpan ka pyaar as its theme. The writing, direction, editing, music and performances are bad, beyond description. After watching this disaster, even watching Manmohan Singh giving a speech would be like the climax of a James Bond movie. In a nutshell avoid this haphazardly shot catastrophe.
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Komal Nahta· Komal Nahta's Blog
Not rated
...a dull fare and has some chance in the smaller centres only. Given its fairly high cost, it will find the going at the box-office very tough and will entail heavy losses to all concerned.
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Details

Release Date
17 January 2014
Runtime
1h 50m
Language
Hindi

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