Himmatwala Movie Reviews

Here are the reviews for Himmatwala:

Ratings:1.5/5 Review By: Taran Adarsh Site:BollywoodHungama

HIMMATWALA takes you back to the familiar terrain. It's the typical good versus bad saga loaded with every possible ingredient that makes masala films tick. Sajid ensures that those who have watched the earlier HIMMATWALA -- or those who haven't watched it -- get paisa vasool entertainment in those 2.30 hours, but, unfortunately, what unfolds on screen is so routine and monotonous that you fervently hope for some novelty in this adaptation. One doesn't mind massy entertainers, but there has to be a hook to keep the viewer's attention arrested. On the whole, HIMMATWALA fails as a film. The only silver lining is the presence of A-list stars and of course, the hype surrounding the film, which might attract footfalls in mass-friendly circuits initially. But as a film that promises big entertainment, HIMMATWALA is hugely disappointing!

Ratings:1/5 Review By: Anupama Chopra Site: Star World ( Hindustan Times)

Himmatwala is loud, puerile and so unfunny that it hurts. Sajid and his dialogue writers, Farhad-Sajid, cheerfully give us lines like ‘Usse itna rula de ki woh hasna bhool jaye’. Early in the film, the heroine, the sarpanch’s spoilt daughter, declares: ‘I hate garibs’. A song includes the lyrics: ‘Maar uske bum pe laat jo tujhe daraata hai’. In one spectacularly tedious moment, we get a spoof of the shower scene from Psycho. And just when you think it can’t get worse, Sajid springs a scene in which Mahesh Manjrekar (the sarpanch) and Paresh Rawal (his brother-in-law) are snuggling, spoon-position, in bed and it is suggested that Paresh’s hand has been resting in an inappropriate place. When Himmatwala ended, I felt like I had aged a few years. Honestly, you need real courage to brave this one.

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

Sarcasm aside, retro is fun but only when offered with levity, chutzpah and an ironic of parody and reverence. The new Himmatwala displays this quality but only in spurts and superficially. Sajid Khan loves big scale but the production values of all his films, their aesthetics, g are consistently tacky. Himmatwala is no different.In one of the films’ hilariously tragic scenes, a character says, ‘Teri maa, meri maa. Teri bahen, meri bahen.’ But even though I sincerely tried Sajid, teri audience cannot be meri audience.’

Critic Ratings:1.5/5 Review By: Saibal Chaterjee Site:NDTV

If you, in the manner of the director, accept that unalloyed bunkum can be legitimately passed off, and gleefully lapped up, as cinematic entertainment, you might even come away pleased as punch with Himmatwala. The film lacks punch, but it loses no opportunity to pun on the word and the act. One would have described the film as pea-brained and left it at that if only if it had a semblance of a brain. Himmatwala is a mindless potpourri that brings together the worst ingredients of 1980s Hindi cinema and parlays them into a messy mélange that quivers repeatedly under its own weight.To each his own. But you don’t really have to subject yourself to this monstrous assault on the senses, even if you are blessed with loads of himmat.

Critic Ratings:1/5 Review By: Komal Nahta Site:ETC

Director Sajid Khan has tried to recreate the era of the eighties but has overlooked the fact that the audience has moved decades ahead. His narrative style caters to just a section of the single-screen cinema audiences. On the whole, Himmatwala faces a supremely uphill task at the ticket-windows. It will do well initially at the single-screen cinemas but will not find favour with the multiplex audience. Without much support coming in from the younger generation, it will go down in box-office history as a forgettable flop.

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

I expected Himmatwala to be predictable, not only because I have faint memories of the older film, but because it follows such a template. I also expected it to be annoying, and it doesn't disappoint on both scores. But I didn't think it would be so dull. We smile at this line. Because it is a smart send-up of the films we used to love despite themselves. If this Himmatwala had adopted that tone and kept it flowing through the film, it would have been something to watch. Devgn manages to get it in a couple of moments, but only in a couple. In the rest, it needs all your courage. Hai himmat?

Critic Ratings:2/5 Review By: Gayatri Sankar Site:Zee News

Sajid Khan’s “entertainer” ‘Himmatwala’ starring Ajay Devgn has all the ingredients of a mindless masala film. But it does jolt you at regular intervals, for sopping up a 30-year-old formula, proves fatal to your contemporary digestive system! In totality, the film is a typical masala entertainer, as director Sajid Khan would like to put it. You will certainly get entertained only if you had nursed the desire to travel back in time, especially to an era when cinema revolved around a helpless mother-daughter duo and their life-savior ‘Himmatwala’. One and half for the film and half a star more for Paresh Rawal.

Ratings:1.5/5 Review By: Mohar Basu Site:Koimoi

What’s Good: The film is exactly as good as its 1983 version. What’s Bad: Un-hilarious stupidity and the tediously long narrative leaves you gasping. Loo break: Just stay in the loo. Don’t bother coming back!. Watch or Not?: Sajid Khan’s Himmatwala is not a remake but a bland spoof devoid of any logic. It is stupid and exhaustingly long. This one is surely a feat, the audiences aren’t supposed to swallow down seriously! Himmatwala demands excessive himmat from the audiences to sustain it through all its exasperating buffoonery laced with dim witted stupidity. Walk out of hall and queue up for the refund Sajid Khan promised you. See you there!

Ratings:-- Review By: Sneha May Francis Site:Emirates24by7

Himmatwala’ is a lesson in ridiculousness, and a painfully long one at that. It blatantly assaults our senses, visual and mental, leaving us severely scarred. In director Sajid Khan’s trademark style, he botches up an already over-the-top 80’s original, by the same title, with innumerable, nonsensical twists and turns. He’s so focused on the buffoonery and dim-witted dialogues, that there’s very little that will tickle you in ‘Himmatwala’. I do know that apart from Sajid, there are many, who might enjoy such frivolity, but for some, who’ve not lost their senses, just yet, this is such a waste of valuable time.Evidently, it takes a brave heart (himmatwala) to endure this one!

Ratings:2/5 Review By: Nabanita Roy Site:OneIndia

The Himmatwala remake contains quite a few over-the-top acting, typical filmy scenes between mother and son which today's youths wouldn't have experienced, Saas Bahu' kind of drama and so on. There was over-the-top heroism, the protective brother, a mother giving fiery dialogues to the villain. Though such over-the-top drama aren't a cup of coffee for all, but, we are sure Sajid Khan has his own loyal audience. We'll be soon back with the final review. Till then, stay tuned

Critic Ratings:1.5/5 Business Ratings:3.5/5 Site:BoxofficeCapsule

Here with "Himmatwala" he completely gets into lunatic mode with series of lame jokes and over the top scenes full of irritating melodrama. Film has nothing new in terms of plot as every single thread is borrowed from original 80's version. But the jokes are here so lame that you will find very few laughing inside cinema unless you are watching it in sub zero IQ territory.Overall film is watchable only for Ajay Devgn and if you are Ajay Devgn fan then don't miss it. But if you are fan of good cinema don't dare to enter cinema. It is not boring and it is not cheesy, it is simply pointless!