Verdict: Film Critics have given Positive Reviews to Gangubai Kathiawadi Movie Starring Alia Bhatt, Shantanu Maheshwari, Vijay Raaz, Indira Tiwari, Seema Pahwa.
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Ratings: 7.18/10Reviews Counted: 30
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Read Bollywood Hindi Gangubai Kathiawadi Movie Reviews.
Director: Sanjay Leela Bhansali
Producer: Jayantilal Gada, Sanjay Leela Bhansali
Writer: Sanjay Leela Bhansali, Utkarshini Vashishtha, Hussain Zaidi
Genre: Biographical Crime Drama
Release Date: 25 February 2022
Monika Rawal Kukreja | Hindustan Times: - | 8/10
Alia puts together quite an impressive show. Her nearly perfect diction, dialect, expressions and how she emotes anger, rage, happiness and helplessness leave you in awe of her screen presence ... Full Review
Ronak Kotecha | Times of India: 3.5/5 | 7/10
If you’re seeking a real peek into Gangubai’s life, also known as Mumbai’s Mafia Queen, then you will be left yearning for more. But even with whatever is packed into this drama, there are enough moments that will draw you into this world where nights seem endless and the lights never fade ... Full Review
Sonil Dedhia | News18: - | 7.5/10
Alia Bhatt practically disappears into the character of Gangubai Kathiawadi. There's a hard-to-miss intensity in her eyes, and tenacity in her voice ... Full Review
Anupama Chopra | Film Companion: - | 7/10
A Celebration Of The Art And Anguish Of Being A Woman. Sanjay, his A-list team and Alia manage to make us share Gangu’s loneliness, her ache and her steely resilience ... Full Review
Rahul Desai | Film Companion: - | 5.5/10
The first half is intimate and specific, the second half suddenly reminds the film that it is in fact a bland biographical drama ... Full Review
Komal Nahta | Film Information: - | 8/10
Gangubai Kathiawadi is a definite box-office winner. It is a superb human drama which will do well, more so in the big cities and multiplexes. The film holds special appeal for the ladies. It has the potential to do hit business in some circuits ... Full Review
Shubra Gupta | The Indian Express: 3/5 | 6/10
Alia Bhatt makes this Sanjay Leela Bhansali spectacle real, is the kind of old-fashioned dialogue-heavy, sentiment-on-sleeve film which Bollywood is forgetting how to make ... Full Review
Bollywood Hungama: 3.5/5 | 7/10
Gangubai Kathiawadi is a powerful saga that boasts of a career best performance by Alia Bhatt. The film has the potential to bring audiences back to the theatres ... Full Review
Taran Adarsh: 4/5 | 8/10
BRILLIANT. #SLB is a magician, gets it right yet again... Powerful story + terrific moments + bravura performances [#AliaBhatt is beyond fantastic, #AjayDevgn outstanding]... UNMISSABLE ... Full Review
Shubham Kulkarni | Koimoi: 4/5 | 8/10
It’s Sanjay Leela Bhansali trying to change his style and evolve as a filmmaker after 3 back to back blockbusters. Alia Bhatt helps him with her immaculate acting and attitude. You will definitely miss out on a gem if you don’t watch it on the big screen. Bhatt has set the benchmark for the future Bhansali actors too high! ... Full Review
FirstPost: 3.5/5 | 7/10
Alia Bhatt's luminous presence and performance in the title role hold up the narrative even when Bhansali succumbs to his life-long temptation to pat, primp and pretty up the grubbiest settings in his films ... Full Review
The Hindu: - | 8/10
This is easily Bhansali at his best as he has been able to marry craft with content; here, he attempts a Pakeezah for the millennials and almost succeeds ... Full Review
Sukanya Verma | Rediff: 3.5/5 | 7/10
Something in Alia has surely changed after Gangubai. Her entire performance is about proving to herself and not to the world what she can do. And there can be no better artistic evolution than that ... Full Review
DNAIndia: 4/5 | 8/10
Alia Bhatt's magnificent performance will leave you spellbound. The conviction with which Alia Bhatt has soaked every bit of Gangubai Kathiawadi is relayed via her body language, voice, dialogue delivery, adayegi ... Full Review
Nandini Ramnath | Scroll: - | 7/10
Alia Bhatt is mesmerising from word go, mounting a charm offensive that is hard to resist. Effortlessly handling pages of bombastic dialogue as well as expressive dialogue-free moments, Bhatt throws herself into the Gangubai mythos ... Full Review
Deccan Herald: 4/5 | 8/10
Sensible portrayal of darkness, survival, existence, battle. It is also a powerful voice of the voiceless who are merely used and thrown only to be treated like trash ... Full Review
Devesh Sharma | Filmfare: 3.5/5 | 7/10
Alia Bhatt owns the film from the first frame. It’s as if she was born for the role. The scene where she romances Afsaan in the car, conveying a wealth of emotions without saying anything is so natural and fluid you forget you’re watching a film ... Full Review
Peter Bradshaw | The Guardian: 4/5 | 8/10
There is an entertainingly brazen quality to this movie, a brashness and recklessness to go with the mawkishness: it has a storytelling killer instinct ... Full Review
Cinema Express: 2.5/5 | 5/10
Empty Bhansali elegance. Alia Bhatt essays 60s mafia queen Gangubai in a vague, all-too-adoring biopic ... Full Review
123 Telugu: 2.75/5 | 5.5/10
Gangubai Kathiawadi is a film that has a very good setting. Alia Bhatt gives an award winning performance but the pace of the film is slow. The needed drama is missing most of the time but Alia Bhatt is the savior and makes sure that you can give the film a shot at least for her ... Full Review
Ravi Bule | ABP Live: 2.5/5 | 5/10
भंसाली की मजबूत फिल्मोग्राफी में ये है कमजोर कड़ी, मेहनत कर के भी आलिया साबित हुईं औसत ... Full Review
Zoom TV: 5/5 | 10/10
And to end it, the grandiose retelling of a tale that seldom finds voice in mainstream society is what will put Gangubai Kathiawadi into the pages of cinematic history –that and Alia Bhatt’s stellar acting ... Full Review
The Week: 3/5 | 6/10
Alia Bhatt aces her toughest test. The movie is definitely worth a watch, though not quite a masterpiece ... Full Review
Stutee Ghosh | The Quint: 3.5/5 | 7/10
Alia however does full justice to her character faultless as she is playing Gangubai. Suffice to say it is one of her finest performances ... Full Review
Shomini Sen | WIONews: - | 7/10
Gangubai Kathiawadi scores over and above the obvious- for its performances, for a distinctly feminist voice, for re-telling a story about a section that is always overlooked in Indian society ... Full Review
PinkVilla: 3.5/5 | 7/10
While the mafia queen's land may not be entirely satisfactory, Alia Bhatt and the cast performance, Bhansali's visuals and a sneak peek into this brutal world makes it a definite watch ... Full Review
Outlook India: 3/5 | 6/10
Alia Bhatt's Shining Performance Overshadows The Predictable Storyline ... Full Review
Arre: - | 6/10
Alia Bhatt single-handedly shoulders this Sanjay Leela Bhansali film, and while her performance is the key takeaway you can’t help but feel that the script and writing could have helped her better ... Full Review
Mashable: 4.5/5 | 9/10
It is nothing short of cinematic magic that is bound to pull people back to the theatres. The film which is based on the book Mafia Queens of Mumbai by S. Hussain Zaidi, revolves around the life, hardships and milestones of Ganga (Bhatt) who goes on to become Gangubai – The Matriarch of Kamathipura. And it does in a way to elicit claps and applauds with fine performances. Especially by the actress who will keep you glued to your seats, flinching, crying and laughing along with her. Read the full review to find out by how she beats her own benchmark ... Full Review
Subhash K Jha | IWM Buzz: 5/5 | 10/10
Is Beyond A Masterpiece. This is a film that will be talked about for a very long time.It’s a work of many splendours. It is also proof, again, that there is no one like Bhansali. Or Alia Bhatt ... Full Review
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