Inkaar Movie Review
Ratings:3/5 Review By: Taran Adarsh Site: BollywoodHungama
INKAAR is a tough film to make and one must compliment Sudhir Mishra for sticking his neck out. Let me add, INKAAR is not just about sex. It's about greed, ambition and power play. Generally, in a majority of Hindi films, it's the man who seeks sexual favors, while the woman is projected as someone who's meek. But the woman here is shrewd and spiteful. When the two sexes collide, what the spectator gets to see is not just the issue that the film raises, but also the games the ambitious play to reach the top spot. On the whole, INKAAR is for spectators of serious cinema. Caters to a niche audience!
Ratings:3/5 Review By: Srijana Mitra Das Site: Times Of India (TOI)
You know those cakes that look gorgeous in pictures but collapse when they bake? Inkaar is like that. Polished-looking, its edges - the tension of feeling harassed at work, office politics, ego flashes - hold rather well. But its centre collapses in a soft mess. Here's where Inkaar should've begun rising - as Maya climbs the ladder, Rahul feels things shake and starts acting odious, passing wise-cracks or vibrating heat. Maya slaps a sexual harassment case onto him, to adjudge which social worker Mrs. Kamdar (Naval) arrives. But instead of becoming tauter, the film starts to unspool. Rather than let characters grow or scenes fully unfold, the camera careens around, frequently distracting.
Ratings:3/5 Review By: Saibal Chaterjee Site: NDTV
Inkaar does not dabble either in 'yes' and 'no', or in black and white. 'May be' and 'perhaps', in other words a whole lot of grays, underline the conclusions that it seeks to draw from what is obviously a complex thematic proposition. Much of the film's strength, for whatever it is worth, stems from its unbending and ambitious career woman-protagonist who stands up to the tyranny of Alpha males in a high-profile corporate set-up where the glass ceiling is an everyday, if only subliminal, reality. It is in the motivational detailing of this character that Inkaar goes off-track. So, should you say no to Inkaar? The answer is neither yes nor no. May be would probably be more in order.
Ratings:2/5 Review By: Aniruddha Guha Site: DNA
The film starts out with promise, but a jarringly loud background score, hammy actors and a cliched ending ruin whatever chance Inkaar had at being considered watchable. There are rare moments in Inkaar that click, like Mishra cheekily referencing his own film, when at an ad film presentation for a condom brand, Verma comes up with the tagline, Iss Raat Ki Subah Nahi. The film, though, comes nowhere close to that, or any other, Mishra film. If you're wise, you'll refuse the offer to watch Inkaar at the multiplex near you.
Ratings:3.5/5 Review By: Ananya Bhattacharya Site: Zee News
The film doesn't answer any hard questions. It craftily builds a narrative, travelling back and forth in time, picking out instances from the protagonists' life – lives that any 21st century office-going individual can relate to – and leaves a gaping lack of denouement. But that's Sudhir Mishra for us.The story is brilliantly supported by Arjun Rampal and Chitrangada Singh, and both the actors shine steadily through with their performances. In a nutshell, 'Inkaar' is another of Sudhir Mishra's brilliances captured on celluloid. Don't say a 'no' to this one.
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