• It’s got a tired, recycled feel to it, and fails to hold up to Dutta’s better films.

  • Raja Sen
    Raja Sen
    Hindustan Times

    3

    There is a lot to be said about the futility of war, and now Dutta has made his case for the futility of the war movie. Starring Arjun Rampal, Sonu Sood and others.

  • Anupama Chopra
    Anupama Chopra
    Film Companion

    4

    J.P. Dutta’s film, based on a military operation against the Chinese at the Nathu La Pass in Sikkim in 1967, is structurally clumsy, bland and flat-out tedious

  • Shalini Langer
    Shalini Langer
    Indian Express

    3

    All sound and fury signifying nothing…J P Dutta’s Paltan doesn’t allow JP Dutta his usual blood and gore and glory of war.

  • Deccan Chronicle Team
    Deccan Chronicle Team
    Deccan Chronicle

    2

    JP Dutta gives his best to lend authenticity by using the real terrain but after an hour of the movie it is like deja vu.

  • J P Dutta’s clownish treatment of history and hard-earned triumph demeans the efforts and sacrifices of real-life martyrs and bravehearts with its pompous ideas of valour, clunky writing and a cadre of lacklustre actors…

  • Reza Noorani
    Reza Noorani
    Times Of India

    6

    Paltan manages to undo some of the damage in its final moments that are truly action packed. Director JP Dutta fires all his ammo in a rousing climax for a bitter sweet victory.

  • DNA Web Team
    DNA Web Team
    DNA India

    6

    Paltan is definitely worth a watch as it relives India’s 1967 triumph over China and rouses our patriotic feelings.

  • For a story that hasn’t been attempted on celluloid so far, Paltan could have been interesting. Unfortunately, it is high on desh bhakti and low on the content in the script

  • Paltan is more testosterone and male ego than strategy or drama and, surprisingly, it’s tentative even in its jingoism.

  • IANS
    IANS
    Sify

    5

    The film is packaged with excellent production values, but overall, this is just another derivative of Dutta’s film Border in a fresh avatar.

  • It’s difficult to tell if Paltan is a war film or a long-drawn advertisement for the armed forces…