Freaky Ali Movie Review

Freaky Ali Movie Review 

Average Ratings:2.28/5 
Score: 25% Positive
Reviews Counted:9
Positive:2
Neutral:2
Negative:5



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Ratings:-- Review By:Komal Nahta Site:Zee ETC Bollywood Business

 On the whole, Freaky Ali is a dull fare as it lacks novelty. Furthermore, the audience will feel alienated from the drama as it deals with the sport of golf, which is not at all a popular sport among the Indian masses. It will flop at the ticket windows.

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Ratings:3.5/5 Review By:Meena Iyer Site:Times of India

 While the first hour of this film is time pass, the second half loses steam because of its repetitive narrative style. Also, you know at the start that this Ali is as strong as Mohammad Ali and will win all tournaments. The bit in the story about getting sport mixed with the anti-social elements is banal, but the film doesn't take itself too seriously. So, you shouldn't either. Watch it for Nawaz. Director Sohail Khan, who shares writing credits too, takes a lot of cinematic liberties. Even in a Utopian state, it is hard to digest street children running amuck golf greens. Or having goondas, double up as caddies. Like they say, this happens only in our desi cinema.

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Ratings:2/5 Review By:Sukanya Verma Site:Rediff

 Although it takes obvious inspiration from Adam Sandler’s Happy Gilmore, the pedestrian comedy sticks to worn-out Bollywood clichés like Amitabh Bachchan-styled basti orphan praying out loud inside places of worship, a voluntary mother recalling Nirupa Roy, the duo’s textbook affection signifying religious secularism and, not to forget, reasserting the power of good luck charms -- be it the trusty talisman or Freaky Ali’s mommy-knitted miracle sweater. It also aspires to channel the Munna-Circuit tapori camaraderie of Munnabhai MBBS except puffy hafta collector Arbaaz Khan proves to be a dour, drab sidekick.

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Ratings:2.5/5 Review By:Sarita Tanwar Site:DNA

 The humor is what makes the first half of the film fairly engrossing. The second half, which mainly focuses on Ali’s journey towards winning the championship, is what makes the film dull. The irreverence goes completely missing and the film is burdened with clichés of all kinds. The evil reigning champion, the portion about betrayal and the prayer son in the climax – Freaky Ali falls exactly into the trap it was trying so hard to avoid

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Ratings:1.5/5 Review By:Shubhra Gupta Site:Indian Express

 The first thing that strikes you when Freaky Ali begins is what an odd-bod collective this enterprise appears to be: to have Nawazuddin Siddiqui play the lead is a masterstroke, but to have Seema Biswas play his mother? Like, really?In addition, to see him command the screen in a solo turn is a delight : he is our first true subaltern `hero’ who has moved from the fringes to claim the centre. If only this were a better film

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Ratings:2/5 Review By:Deepanjana Site:Hindustan times

 The film tries to disguise its predictability with wordplay in the dialogue.Freaky Ali isn’t a satisfying film by a long shot, and that’s a terrible shame, given that the plot is good. Still, it elicits a few laughs and its heart is in the right place. Thank God for that at least.

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Ratings:2.5/5 Review By:Sreeju Site:Bollywood Life

 While we all love Nawazuddin Siddiqui as a performer, it’s high time that he chooses his projects more carefully, since this is the third film of his this year, after Te3N and Raman Raghav 2.0, that has let us down. Freaky Ali has a few moments of comic mirth that will make you crack a smile, but the film, overall, sputters and drags all the way to the final hole.

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Ratings:2/5 Review By:Devarsi Ghosh Site:India Today

 Nawaz, who is, frankly, at home playing similar characters in much grounded films with a different cinematic language, does everything possible to add juice to Ali, but Sohail Khan's Freaky Ali, in itself, is so empty within, that it needed a star of much bigger, grander, and freakier charisma to elevate such sub-par material to enjoyable goofiness. In fact, Freaky Ali would have been perfect material for a young Govinda when he was delivering No.1s after No.1s in the '90s.

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Ratings:-- Review By:Manjari  Site:Gulfnews

 Freaky Ali could have been an “albatross” but it turned out to be a “duff”. You can gauge where most films are heading just ten minutes into them. If I wasn’t there to review the film, that’s how long I would have probably been in the theatre. Yet – let’s be fair – the film is not a total “shank”. It’s really not worth paying money to watch Freaky Ali in the theatre. Wait for the world television premiere. And then too, watch only if you are a big fan of Siddiqui’s.

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Freaky Ali Story:  

Ali (Nawazuddin Siddiqui) is an extortion debt collector for the local goon along with Maqsood (Arbaaz Khan). His fate turns when one day he and Maqsood go to a golf course to collect extortion, after waiting for many hours for a man to give him money. Ali putts the ball in just one ace for he has a gifted natural swing, This not only surprises the man but his caddy as well who knows him. What follows is an inspirational story of a simple extortion debt collector to a golfing sensation, and along the way of him becoming a champion

Freaky Ali Release Date:

Sep 9 2016

 Director:  Sohail Khan

 Producer:    Sohail Khan

Cast:
Nawazuddin Siddiqui as Ali
 Arbaaz Khan as Maqsood
Amy Jackson as Megha
 Jas Arora as Peter

Run Time:  2 hours