Hulla - To Each His Own
25th September 2008 | posted in External Reviews, Hindi Movies, meetu |Looks like youre new here. You may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!
Meetu’s Review: With sub-plots repeating themselves, the entire plot leans towards boring. But it’s realistic enough for you to sense your housing society on the big screen.
Rating: Watch if you have nothing better to do
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Here is what 25 other reviewers/viewers think. Average rating 2.1 / 5.0: 7 thumbs up, 7 so-so, 11 thumbs down.
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| Sanskriti Media, AOL INDIA …The director seems to have never lived in Mumbai. The protagonists Raj and Abha have presumably shifted to a Mumbai suburb to find peace!… See full review |
Nikhil Kumar, Apun Ka Choice …Jaideep Varma shows audacity in picking a mundane, yet relatable, subject and stretching it to a full-blown story… See full review |
| Preeti Arora, Buzz18 …Unfortunately, the humour has been handled in a clumsy, slipshod fashion… See full review |
Bikas Mishra, DearCinema …?Hulla? masterly captures the unique relationship that Raj and Janardan share… See full review |
| Aniruddha Guha, DNA …When you start to think that the film is drawing to a close, you are greeted with the ‘Interval’ sign… See full review |
Shubhra Gupta, Express India …The plot?s simple. But the treatment makes it a whimsical, affectionate study of people… See full review |
| Martin D’Souza, Glamsham.com …Rajat Kapoor as the building secretary who is also into investing in shares apart from his private business enacts his role to the ‘T’…. See full review |
Khalid Mohamed, Hindustan Times …thanks to the believable performances by Stockbroker and Chairman, you don?t actually run out of the auditorium to check your own ear drums…. See full review |
| Rajeev Masand, IBN Live …Hulla doesn’t quite work in the end because it overstays its welcome… See full review |
Taran Adarsh, IndiaFM …After setting up things so beautifully in the first hour, you expect an encore in the second hour. But it’s not engaging at all… See full review |
| Gaurav Malani, indiatimes …while his idea is novel, his approach is rather repetitive… See full review |
Janhvi Patel, indya.com …Bid adieu to fancy designer mansions to make way for one bedroom matchbox apartments with dull pista green walls… See full review |
| Live Mint …While the satire in ?Hulla? isn?t as heartless as it needs to be, it?s certainly dispiriting for anybody who believes that Mumbai is India?s urbs prima…. See full review |
Amit R Agarwal, merinews …Rajat Kapoor has given better performances, same for Sushant Singh…. See full review |
| Deepa Gahlot, MSN Entertainment …there’s only this much it can be stretched…. See full review |
Meena Iyer, Mumbai Mirror …Varma even comes up with a few witty lines but post interval the film clearly loses steam…. See full review |
| Anupama Chopra, NDTV …the characters and conflict aren’t energetic or compelling enough to sustain a two-hour film…. See full review |
Anurag Kashyap, Passion for Cinema …What no review saw in the first place was that here Sushant?s Raj puri was not the protagnist and Rajat Kapoor?s ?Janardan? was not the antagonist. They were just two characters at different ends of a problem… See full review |
| Kenny, Passion for Cinema …Hulla had me and even my NRI buddy laughing from start to finish, and it did so without insulting my intelligence, which is all I bloody ask of a movie… See full review |
Subrat, Passion for Cinema …It?s an intelligent film that takes its intelligence lightly and yes, almost flimsily…. See full review |
| Goher Iqbal Punn, Radio Sargam …To send laugh on the viewers? face is difficult and the film certainly tries to send smiles…. See full review |
Patcy N, Rediff …The film seems to take you to a high pitch, and then drop unexpectedly…. See full review |
| Eye TV India Bureau, SmasHits.com …hat’s why the viewers were found saying that the writer has stretched the story too far, making the climax unjustifiable… See full review |
Nikhat Kazmi, Times of India …this could easily be one of the most exasperating attempts at humour in recent times… See full review |
| Filmbear, Upper Stall …makes some unique observations on life in suburban Mumbai and at least these are noteworthy… See full review |