Satyaprem Ki Katha

“Tries exceedingly hard, but largely in vain, to attain a balance between the need to provide entertainment and the urge to pontificate on a matter of undeniable import.”

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“A social issue tucked into the drama, successful patches of comedy, pacing problems that drag down the narrative and a male saviour complex.”

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“Despite its goal – rare in Hindi cinema – of batting against date rape and marital rape, it does not have the intellectual capacity to grasp the values it claims to espouse or the sensitivity and commitment to effectively uphold them.”

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“Glorifying oafs has long been a Bollywood preoccupation where good-for-nothing automatically translates to heart of gold.”

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“Satyaprem Ki Katha, in trying to please everyone by its mod-trad vibe, ends up being neither here nor there, while blasting our eardrums in the process because whoever heard of keeping the background music volume low?”

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“There isn’t a moment where director Sameer Vidwans and writer Karan Shrikant Sharma are able to suggest that these are actual living, breathing people. Like so many recent Hindi films, it lives in its own world, condescending to its viewers.”

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