• Shubhra Gupta
    Shubhra Gupta
    Indian Express

    4

    As a bio-pic, PM Narendra Modi inhabits muddled, post-truth territory. As a hagiography though, genuflecting at the altar of the man, it’s perfect. It’s uncritical, unquestioning, high on rhetoric. And there’s nothing accidental about it.

  • Raja Sen
    Raja Sen
    Hindustan Times

    2

    Vivek Oberoi stars in Omung Kumar’s latest biopic. The film, PM Narendra Modi, isn’t mere tribute but actual deification.

  • Deccan Chronicle Team
    Deccan Chronicle Team
    Deccan Chronicle

    3

    The oddly structured film never goes beyond a surface look at Modi’s political career.

  • The movie presents a version of Modi that the bhakts want the rest of us to see

  • Renuka Vyavahare
    Renuka Vyavahare
    Times Of India

    5

    Whether you believe or don’t believe in the political philosophy of Narendra Modi is secondary, as a film, this one is too lopsided for you to appreciate. It leaves a lot unanswered. While it firmly believes ‘Modi ek insaan nahi, soch hai’, we wish the script was as thoughtful.

  • Vivek Oberoi plays PM Narendra Modi in the biopic of the Indian Prime Minister, and he does a mighty unimpressive job at that. The biopic fades in front of the story of Modi the man that we have seen in front of our eyes.

  • All said and done, the movie lacks entertainment value as it has nothing to offer. Even the greatest of the stories require good narrators, and that’s what this biopic is missing.

  • Mohar Basu
    Mohar Basu
    Mid-Day

    3

    Goodness that even Modi may not buy…Yes, it’s all whitewashing, and what’s even more bothersome is the absence of the promise that we once saw in Vivek Oberoi in Company

  • Vivek Oberoi hams his way through an unwittingly farcical, comical hagiography

  • Kunal Guha
    Kunal Guha
    Mumbai Mirror

    4

    Indian biopics rarely manage a holistic portrait. Usually hagiographic, these reel-life renditions have hardly been held back by reality. Historians say biopics deliver immortality, as they serve as a record of our times, and need to be factually accurate.

  • Madhuri
    Madhuri
    FilmiBeat

    3

    The Bland Storytelling Will Make You Chant ‘No More’ To The Film!

  • Like with most biopics that are instead hagiographies, director Omung Kumar (Bhoomi, 2017) and his team of writers — there are three — deify the central protagonist more than any director could ever have done for Rajinikanth’s star power. Oberoi, who delivers ably and with grace and respectfulness as Modi, seems to have bagged the role of a lifetime.