• Anupama Chopra
    Anupama Chopra
    Hindustan Times

    6

    Yes, the film is over-wrought, melodramatic and designed as pulp fiction. But it’s intermittently fun.

  • Times News Network
    Times News Network
    Times Of India

    8

    Once Upon A Time In Mumbaai offers you both substance and soul, even as it dabbles with a slice of reality. Don’t miss it.

  • Watch it. It’s like watching a retro fashion show with some cool gun battles thrown in. Lots of rain, lots of crashing of the waves, moody lighting, and dialogues that echo Salmi-Javed at their purplest prose. Ahh. Mumbai when it was still Bombay.

  • Luthria rightly recreates retro from the ‘70s. And this is not just in the low angles of the shots; strange prints on expensive nylon shirts; or trumpets for a background score. It’s most importantly in the sense of the big screen occasion, and a throwback to smart, terse dialogue.

  • IndiaGlitz
    IndiaGlitz
    India Glitz

    8

    …a stylish, spirited, nostalgia with power packed performance; Miss it at your own risk.