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Humshakal Hindi Movie Reviews
Ratings:0.5/5 Review By: Rajeev Masand Site:CNN IBN
This singularly unfunny film plumbs the depths of comedic bankruptcy by a director who quite frankly, hasn't delivered anything funny in a long time. That bit of self-deprecatory humor aside, this is essentially a tasteless, overblown affair that plods on for 159 brain-numbing minutes. I'm going with half out of five, yes just half out of five, for Sajid Khan's 'Humshakals'. I've never had one, but I imagine a ruptured appendix would hurt less.Visit Site for more
Ratings:1.5/5 Review By: Taran Adarsh Site:Bollywood Hungama
While HUMSHAKALS begins on a promising note -- it's a premise ripe with comic potential -- the graph only spirals southwards barely fifteen minutes into the film. It's not sacrilege to attempt a no-brainer -- the audience loves it -- but the smiles/guffaw/laughter should never be in short supply. With a run time of approx. 2.30 hours, HUMSHAKALS drains you at the end of it, despite the actors putting their best foot forward and trying so so so hard to make you giggle even when the gags are weak. The banal jokes and the lame PJs coupled with the muddled screenplay are clearly responsible for the royal mess.On the whole, HUMSHAKALS tries too hard to make you laugh, but fails miserably.Visit Site for more
Ratings:3/5 Review By: Srijana Mitra Das Site: Times Of India (TOI)
With its multi-story story, Humshakals must be tightly told. Here, the film wobbles, its first half distractedly meandering with mindless sequences involving comas, electric shocks and Satish Shah as a Hitler-worshipping warden, tormenting patients by showing them Himmatwala. The second half gets tauter and funnier. The result's like a minty chewing gum that's been stretched too long. Shedding 30 minutes and some jaded gags would make Humshakals consistent fun - now, you laugh but also frequently go, ho-hum.Visit Site for more
Ratings:0/5 Review By: Raja Sen Site: Rediff
This is a racist, sexist, equal-opportunity offender of a film, which wouldn’t have been awful in itself were it not also patently unfunny. Seriously, if you run into anyone who claims to have enjoyed this film, step away slowly. The biggest casualty from this monstrous effort is, in my eyes, Saif Ali Khan, who may well be disowned by friends and family. It’s all bad. All of it, every last instant, every single word,Visit Site for more
Ratings:-- Review By: Komal Nahta Site:Zee ETC Bollywood Business
Sajid Khan’s story is too farcical to be digested by the audience. Since the film is a comedy, the viewers would’ve overlooked logic but because the story is implausible and farcical, the absence of logic becomes difficult for them to accept at many places. All in all, the arrogance of the script gets on the audience’s nerves. On the whole, Humshakals is funny only in parts and boring, by and large. Too farcical and repetitive and resting on an implausible premise, it will fail to make its mark at the box-office.Visit Site for more
Ratings:0.5/5 Review By: Saibal Chaterjee Site: NDTV
So you thought Sajid Himmatwala Khan could sink no further. Watch just 15 minutes of Humshakals and you'd be disavowed of that notion. Even by the pitiable cinematic standards that the director has so defiantly set for himself, Humshakals is the very pits. It scrapes the bottom of a barrel that seems to have no bottom at all. Humshakals is an execrable comedy of horrors that plumbs the depths of stupidity and crassness. If there is any purpose that this load of unalloyed trash serves, it is simply this: the film proves how delusional Sajid Khan is. He thinks this is cinema. Sorry, Mr. Khan, no matter how much money your film ends up with at the box office, the joke is entirely on you!
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