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Friday 3 May 2013

Bombay Talkies

Bombay Talkies Rating: 3.56/5

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Bombay Talkies Movie Review


Ratings:4/5  Review By:  Taran Adarsh  Site:Bollywood Hungama
Backed by Viacom18, the four prolific film-makers set out to narrate stories that are unconventional, borrowed from real life, about the common man. Also, each of those stories has a reference to Indian cinema/stars. The challenge lies in not merely narrating a story within a budget, but also narrating a tale effectively encompassing myriad emotions… On the whole, BOMBAY TALKIES is one of those infrequent movies wherein you get to eyeball the superior efforts of four top notch film-makers in less than two hours. This reality alone makes the film a compelling watch, while the superior performances and absorbing themes that the movie prides itself in only serve as an icing on the cake. This celebration of cinema is a must watch!
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Ratings:4/5  Review By:  Anupama Chopra  Site:Star World ( Hindustan Times)
Ratings:3.5/5  Review By:  Karan Anshuman  Site:Mumbai Mirror
Images from each of the stories will stay with you for a long time: It is genuinely not possible for me to pick a favorite or rank them in any order as tempting an idea it might sound. Each film has something to say, and their authors get it across effectively and without fuss. Sure they have their blips and flaws, but Bombay Talkies made me want to stand up and break out into spontaneous applause on multiple occasion. The best film of 2013 so far.
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Ratings:3.5/5  Review By:  Srijana Mitra Das  Site:Times Of India (TOI)
Bombay Talkies (BT) celebrates Bollywood's centenary - by deconstructing Bollywood's formula. Loving families, skin-tight genders, glittering stardom and happy endings get tossed about by the four directors here. Does this work? Yes - and no.So, BT's a good experiment, celebrating movies, mindsets and Mumbai's moods - but it isn't the coolest film doing so. Woh picture abhi baaqi hai, mere dost. Note: You may not like this film if you like Bollywood inside its formula.
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Ratings:3.5/5  Review By:  Sukanya Verma Site:Rediff
Bombay Talkies may or may not celebrate cinema in the direct sense. Except for its hopelessly tacky end- credits -- a complete waste of star power and resources, Bombay Talkies is an absorbing ode to the language of cinema that is part of our collective system. It honours the imagination and enthusiasm that attracts so many young men and women in this country to embrace a life of risk and rush – filmmaking.
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Ratings:3/5  Review By:  Saibal Chaterjee  Site:NDTV
 Each segment of Bombay Talkies has its moments, either in terms of the quality of the acting or in the little narrative sleights that hit home.One is left with the feeling that a once-in-a-century cinematic experiment should have had more heart and heft. But do not let that put you off. In encapsulating the dreams, disappointments, falsehoods, flashes of truth, elements of emotional artifice and inescapable realities of life, these four stories, each distinct in emotional timbre and visual feel, do present, within their limited ambit, a range of cinematic expressions that are in themselves laudable.
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Ratings:--  Review By:  Komal Nahata  Site:BBC/ETC
Since the audience is not used to watching short films in a feature film, the commercial potential of the film is very limited. To make matters ‘worse’ for the audience, the four stories are independent and there is not even a common thread running through them. On the plus side, however, are the novelty factor and the names of four popular directors associated with the film. On the whole, Bombay Talkies is an experimental film with very limited box-office appeal, that too, for the multiplex audience in some big cities only.
Ratings:3.5/5 Review By:  Shubhra Gupta  Site:Indian Express
Bombay Talkies is a film that gives you what all good films should: it has stories, it has emotion, and it has drama. It has people you want to know. You want to tap them on the shoulder, and ask, 'hey, you got a minute? Sit, talk to me.' Finally, Bombay Talkies fills you with hope. If Bollywood can make a film like this, then it must be doing something right. Bombay Talkies speaks of you and me, and speaks to you and me. Not all segments are even, but they are all cracklingly real. So much like life, isn't it?
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Ratings:3.5/5 Review By:  Tushar Joshi  Site:DNA
With each one of them being successful in delivering commercial hits, Bombay Talkies offers them a platform to indulge and explore another side of their creativity. Mind you these aren't necessarily art-house stories and each chapter has that signature stamp of their makers. Bombay Talkies is a format that needs to be praised for its concept. The sequencing of the stories works and the pace is swift, never showing signs of lethargy. If this was a tribute to 100 years of cinema, then we need to have an array of directors from different genres pay such homages more often.
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Ratings:3.5/5  Review By:  Mohar Basu  Site:Koimoi
What’s Good: The overwhelming romanticism of cinema and its stars that majorly weighs heavy all through the film. What’s Bad: The film despite being independent works of sheer geniuses suffers from one major flaw. Celebrating the centenary year of Indian cinema, the link and relevance to the larger picture is hard to decipher.Watch or Not?: Bombay Talkies in each of its story is indeed magnum opus. While these gently framed short films are individually the few most unbeatable concepts of recent times, the film’s major pitfall is that the stories have no thematic link or relevance to the overall rationale. Despite the glitches, the ensemble film is indeed a must watch
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  2. loved the film
    A great way to celebrate centenary year of the hindi cinema which is like a religion for me since the time i came to know about it
    loved all four stories...........
    kudos to all the directors and the producer who came up with this idea
    HUMBLED........ :) (h)

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