One By Two Movie Review

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Ratings:2/5 Review By:Saibal Chatterjee Site:NDTV

One By Two is a quirkily off-kilter romantic comedy that turns many a norm of the genre on its head. Unfortunately, it never quite manages to find the plot or the characters to keep pace with its carelessly strewn ideas about life, love and loafing. One By Two isn’t particularly romantic and, notwithstanding its laboured attempts at toilet humour, it certainly isn’t comedic either. Alas, they cannot reduce the tedium of the tale for One By Two does not add up to much.

Ratings:1/5 Review By:Mohar Basu Site:Koimoi

When it is an Abhay Deol film you go in expecting quality, out-of-the-box endeavor but this time the actor strands you in middle of one heck of a horrible film that suffers from loopy writing. There is a lack of emotion in the story and a lack of heart in the execution which makes the film such a shamefully bland one. Barring the few songs there is nothing fresh to seek in this insipid affair.

Ratings:/ Review By:Deepanjana Pal Site:First Post

One By Two offers one of the least insightful and most shallow portraits of India's urban youth. Filmmakers like Devika Bhagat and actors like Abhay Deol encourage audiences to expect something different from them. Then they go and borrow bits from existing works — fecal humour from Delhi Belly; an everyman hero who is constantly being heartbroken, like Ted from How I Met Your Mother; every other clichéd trope, from mousy Bengalis to friends who first snipe at each other and then become lovers. Films like One By Two are an attempt at a compromise between masala Bollywood and smart storytelling. Like so many compromises, it isn't fun and it's distasteful to both parties.

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

This is a case of missed opportunities. Trying for likeability is tough when the film is saddled with a listless plot and pace. And actors trying to lend it some heft, especially veterans like Rati Agnihotri and Jayant Kriplani, but not being able to because they don’t get enough. Lillete Dubey is an exception: as the wife and mother who wants to do the right thing, she comes off well. There’s a nice cameo of a garrulous girl who crunches wafers noisily right through her first date. The zaniness of Deol-in-his-boxers makes us laugh, even if it feels a trifle contrived. You wish that the ‘One By Two’ had been half as much fun.

Ratings:3.5/5 Review By:Subhash K Jha Site:IANS

Pushing its way out of the film's inner-world the characters' insistent clamorous self-projections become more amusing than tragic when weighed against the sheer commonness of their dreams.

There is a warm lived-in feeling to Bhagat's directorial debut. It may not win your heart as unconditionally as Farhan Akhtar's directorial debut "Dil Chahta Hai". But there's a winsome, bubbly bouncy and ebullient quality to this take on urban aspirations. Irresistible in parts, "One By Two" never disappoints.

Ratings:0.5/5 Review By:Rohit Khilnani Site:India Today

A talented actor like Abhay Deol is wasted in this film. He just comes across as the epitome of laziness, sleep walking from one scene to the other. Preeti Desai is not bad but deserves a better script and a better film!

It's hard to believe that the dull tracks in this film are given by Bollywood's most celebrated music composers Shankar Ehsaan Loy. Shouldn't a film about a dance reality show have good music and good dancers? Or is that asking for too much? The search for the first contender of the 'Worst Films of 2014 list' ends right here.