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Posted: 9 years ago
#81
to much swearing for my liking
alia's acting is v good thought she was getting r*ped but they injected drugs into her
my fav was kareena's role even liked diljit's enjoyed their interactions together too
in some scenes it seemed to me like it wasnt kareenas voice😕
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Posted: 9 years ago
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#UdtaPunjab: Trolled actors like Shahid and Alia make an impression here, but the pick of the lot is Kareena in a wonderful role.

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#UdtaPunjab: After all the mess over the past few weeks, the film actually stands and speaks for itself. That should do.

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#UdtaPunjab: Except for the fact that they could have done away with some over-exploiting of the topic, this is worth a watch.
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Posted: 9 years ago
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#kareenakapoor the most natural actress we have the chemistry between her and @diljitdosanjh is so sweet in a not so sweet film #UdtaPunjab
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Posted: 9 years ago
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its FAADOOO FIlm ..with ULTIMATE Performances by @shahidkapoor @aliaa08 @diljitdosanjh and #KareenaKapoorKhan #UdtaPunjab #RjAlok

Paaji @diljitdosanjh tussi kamaal kar ditta,BRILLIANT Performanc #SartajSngh Welcome 2 Hindi Film Industry #UdtaPunjab #RjAlok #ShriWaheGuru

#Ikkudi @aliaa08 Youhave Nailed it in Every Frame ,Diction,Style, Expression, Hatts Off ..BRILLIANT in Every Frame .. #UdtaPunjab #RjAlok



Bebo #KareenaKapoorKhan UP To The Mark with FAb Performance ... Bravo ! #UdtaPunjab


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Posted: 9 years ago
#85
Saw it. Might have spoilers.

A very impactful movie with some amazing performances. Kareena was fantastic as Dr. Preet but I wish her character had a better ending. She gave a very subtle and mature perfomance. Same for Diljit. His chemistry with Kareena is fanastic. I also wish it was shown what happened to his character at the end. What he would be doing next.

Shahid provided most of the comic relief in the movie and was amazing as usual. Tommy is a bit of a fuddu though. But without any bias, it's Alia that steals the show. I was rooting for her character to end up well and she was heartbreaking and made me cry many times.

Overall this is a one time watch but should be watched.
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Posted: 9 years ago
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Originally posted by: TheJake

UP screening



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Kat srk they look nice.where is sid 😕 ??
Get ready for kjo. Tweets on up n how good was. Aloo in it I hope he applaud her other Barbie doll. Too 😳
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Posted: 9 years ago
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ok i watched it, overall its not a bad film but not a outstanding film either, it has some very well shot and gud moments but also some boring and weird moments aswell

there is way too much swearing in the first half, i dont hav a problem with cuss words but in the first few mins of the film they r swearing continuously in some scenes which was just not needed

I think the film shows punjabs drug problem really well, it shows the devastating effects drugs can half on the youth

overall the story cud hav been better, but its not bad, also the climax is very abrupt, it cud hav ended better

The biggest positive about the film are the performances, they carry the film

kareena was such a wonderful surprise in the film, she acted so naturally and so well, i really loved her in the film, i dont know why but they dubbed her voice at some parts

diljeet is wonderful, he fitted the role perfectly, and his chemistry with kareena was lovley, wud love to see the two of them in another film together

alia was very gud in some scenes, especially wen she narrates her story to tommy she is outstanding! but her accent did start to change in some scenes and her crying needs some improving, but overall she did very well

shahid was gud in his role, he acts very well, but to be very honest, i think tommy cud hav been better developed as a character, most of the time he was swearing or shouting, there wasn't alot of real emotion coming out of his character

overall its a gud one time watch for me, 3/5
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Posted: 9 years ago
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Awesome review! and totally agree about Diljit and Kareena. How damn SWEET were they?

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Posted: 9 years ago
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From huffington post

At one point in Abhishek Chaubey's Udta Punjab, Shahid Kapoor, playing a rockstar' named Tommy Singh, sings fervently in a hospital room while two Punjab Police constables bang away at the door bolted from the inside, hoping to arrest him.

The last time we heard Tommy sing (#TINAI), it was a song that had a chorus with the words coke' and cock' featuring prominently over a generic hip hop backing track in a studio, with lines of powder laid out on a table not two feet away. Here, he sings " well, actually, the vocals belong to his co-star Diljit Dosanjh " the words of a poem by the Punjabi poet Shiv Kumar Batalvi, set to a lovely melody by composer Amit Trivedi.

Udta Punjab reaches dizzying heights during this moment, which is only one of many in this simultaneously cynical and idealistic look at four intertwining lives in drug-addled Punjab. Here, in its famed fields, one is more likely to find used needles than embracing lovers. Characters are more likely to use expletives nonchalantly, instead of the usual O paaji' and Balle balle' we're used to. It's like someone remixed a Gurvinder Singh film to a catchy four-on-the-floor beat and a dark, pulsating bass-line.

It begins with one of the best opening title scenes in recent memory, using a flying packet of heroin as the film's most noticeable visual motif. A Bihari migrant (Alia Bhatt, in the most gobsmacking performance we've seen from her yet), a field worker near the India-Pakistan border, finds in it a way to escape her reality, a decision that leads to horrific consequences. Not far away, in Amritsar, Tommy's cocaine addiction lands him in jail and forces him to reevaluate his life choices. Sartaj Singh (Dosanjh), an assistant sub-inspector with the Punjab Police, faces a moral dilemma between doing his job within the confines of a corrupt system that facilitates the drug trade, which has claimed a victim in his own younger brother Balli (Prabhjyot Singh), or doing the right thing. A doctor and anti-drug activist, Preet Sahni (Kareena Kapoor Khan), helps Sartaj make that choice.

Chaubey and co-writer Sudip Sharma (NH10) come up with an arresting narrative that ties in Punjab's drug crisis with its politics. The director's penchant for mixing grim situations and bloody violence with deliberate absurdity and dark, screwball humour " seen before in his debut Ishqiya (2010) and its sequel Dedh Ishqiya (2014) " works beautifully. Sharma's mostly Punjabi dialogues are ace, see-sawing between profanity and profundity while retaining the authentic rhythms of everyday conversation.

It is also immensely satisfying in the way it uses music (Trivedi in top form) to aid its storytelling. While Chitta Ve' and the deliciously groovy Da Da Dasse' accompany montages that move both plot and character development ahead, the acoustic guitar intro to Ikk Kudi' is used fantastically in a scene that uses contrast to kick-start Tommy's journey to redemption. That apart, the background score (by Naren Chandavarkar and Benedict Taylor) is wonderfully understated and used wisely. May every Bollywood filmmaker and Our cinema is like this only' enthusiast take note.

There are times when Udta Punjab is too frenetically paced for its own good, leading to the occasional contrivance. It also gets a tad literal at times. For instance, just before the scene described at the beginning of this review, the film makes Tommy spell out things the viewer already knows, or could've figured out. I could've done with a more realistic depiction of Tommy as a musician (that Coke Cock' song is a bit too ridiculous to take seriously) and some depth to Khan's character, which is the only one that comes across as visibly underwritten.

It doesn't help that Khan's performance is easily the film's weakest link, which is not to say that she's objectively bad " just that she's merely operating at a more superficial level than the rest of the cast, sometimes erroneously channelling remnants of Geet from Jab We Met (2007). Dosanjh, who shares many scenes with her, steals most of the show with his sincere, incredibly confident turn. From the uniformly solid supporting cast, Manav Vij, as Sartaj's morally flexible cousin Jujhar Singh, stands out, as does veteran Satish Kaushik.

The other two stars', in roles that demand some level of physical transformation, do a great job as well. Kapoor, sporting a lean physique, polishes some of those high notes he touched in Haider (2014) and displays some great comic timing. Bhatt finally breaks out of her MPDG-ish, urbane mould and sinks her talented teeth into a challenging, heartbreaking role. Is this really the same girl who made her debut in Student Of The Year just four years ago? Holy crap.

Rough patches notwithstanding, Udta Punjab is an undeniably exhilarating watch, a trip truly worth taking (downer included). With his third film, Chaubey has fine-tuned his unique directorial voice and pushed the boundaries of commercial cinema. Here's hoping censorship, or anything else, never even attempts to get in his way again.


http://www.huffingtonpost.in/2016/06/16/udta-punjab-review_n_10516528.html
Edited by MrsZaynMalik - 9 years ago
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Posted: 9 years ago
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Originally posted by: desigal90

Awesome review! and totally agree about Diljit and Kareena. How damn SWEET were they?

Damn, this gives me so many feels. I haven't watched the film but I can sense they have fantastic chemistry. 😆

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