June 23, 2017
Tubelight is the story of a man’s unshakable faith in himself and the love for his family.
Starring: Salman Khan, Sohail Khan, Zhu Zhu
Director: Kabir Khan
Language: Hindi
India release date: June 23
Genre: Adventure, drama, war.
Duration: 2 hours 34 mins
Budget: Supposedly, 100 crores
“An anti-war movie that illustrates the pointlessness of battle and the importance of not actively hating those you are at war with… is rendered unwatchable because of the leading man.”
Rating: 1 star | Full review
Raja Sen, NDTV
“Writing a review for a Salman Khan film is a sheer waste of time… Salman’s constipated face throughout the film is a big hurdle.”
Rating: 1 star | Full review
Rohit Bhatnagar, Deccan Chronicle
“The 51-year-old actor… spends a chunk of screen time smiling wide-eyed and breaking down into tears, never able to draw sympathy for the character.”
Rating: 1.5 stars | Full review
Suhani Singh, India Today
“Instead of sounding like a simpleton, Salman sounds like a man desperate to humour simpletons.”
Rating: 1.5 stars | Full review
Rahul Desai, Film Companion
“Salman comes off sounding and behaving like a patronizing adult goo-goo-gaa-gaa-ing to a baby. In the more intense, emotional scenes, he’s clearly out of his depth, and you watch transfixed as he struggles like a non-swimmer, flailing arms and all, who’s been thrown into the deep end.”
Rating: 1.5 stars | Full review
Rajeev Masand, News 18
“It’s nearly always excruciating when an actor with limited talent plays a character with limited intelligence. Normally, the charge against Salman is that he doesn’t do anything; here, he does so much that you’ll be begging for him to go back to his minimalist ways.”
Uday Bhatia, Live Mint
“If cinema can be transformative, then it’s not a bad idea to make an inclusionary and empowering film. But it’s got to be a good film first. Tubelight is severely let down by its leading man, Salman, who looks so out of his depth here that you (almost) feel bad for him.”
Tanul Thakur, The Wire
“The effort, on Salman’s part, to come off slow-witted shows in every frame. It’s all contorted face, sing-song delivery; all surface, no depth. And absolutely no nuance. Instead of Hindi Chini bhai bhai, it is more like Hindi Chini, bye bye.”
Rating: 1.5 stars | Full review
Shubhra Gupta, Indian Express
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