Bholaa

“A remake that makes exceedingly heavy weather of an old formula… The film is a bummer. Loud, prone to excess and wilting under its own weight, its creaks and croaks its way to a climax that issues a threat – there is more on the way.”

Rating: 2 stars | Full review

“Ajay Devgn’s Kaithi remake dials up an already action-heavy movie with a psychedelic colour palette, a 3D IMAX tech upgrade and an insistent background score.”

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“The kind of all-out, no-holds-barred, high-octane actioner we haven’t seen in Bollywood in a long time.”

Rating: 3 stars | Full review

“Ajay Devgn’s remake of the Tamil hit retains the original’s life or death urgency, but revises its raw, massy momentum for a freakish tone that works wonders for Bholaa as long as it lasts.”

Rating: 3 stars | Full review

“I have a high tolerance level for violence on screen, but seeing men being impaled on or stabbed with a trident from all angles for endless minutes, and a shot of a man’s face being pierced with this weapon is more than I can take. Kaithi had something to offer even a viewer who prefers noiseless, understated cinema, but Bholaa kills that potential by taking the pace of the Tamil film down by several notches and revving up the noise.”

Rating: 2 stars | Full review

“A lot of Bholaa’s missteps can be traced back to its identity as a remake. Sometimes directors get so busy replicating the formula of a story that they end up trying to counterfiet the succes of a film. The result is a robotic mishmash of tropes that strive to offest the absence of voice with technical bravado.”

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