Aatma Movie Reviews
3.0
Renuka Vyavahare | Times of India
Abhay (Nawazuddin Siddiqui) is a doting dad but an erratic and suspicious husband. His love for daughter Nia (Doyel Dhawan) is as deep as his hatred for wife Maya (Bipasha Basu). After it becomes impossible to bear his violent nature and decipher his whimsical attitude, Maya decides to part ways. She hopes for a better future with Nia, but destiny has different plans. Her disturbing past comes haunting, pushing her to a breaking pointRead full review3.0
Renuka Vyavahare | Times of India
Aatma may not send shivers down your spine, but it dares to be unconventional.Read full review3.0
Resham Sengar | Zee News
On a general note, ‘Aatma’ does not belong to the league of those horror films that leave a powerful impact on your mind for days, read: ‘The Exorcist’, ‘Grudge’ recalling a few. Instead, hopefully it will leave you without any fear of the unknown lurking in your heart. Signing off on an optimistic note, ‘Aatma 2’ takes the genre of horror films a notch higher.Read full review2.5
Ashay D | Koimoi
Aatma Movie Review: What’s Good: Nawazuddin’s acting, Sound, lighting and art direction. What’s Bad: The unn...Read full review2.5
Shadab Hasnain | BookMyShow
Review: The film starts off with a promise and a distinct flavor but becomes redundant after a period of time. Aatma is a predictable horror......Read full review2.0
Anupama Chopra | Hindustan Times
Early on in Aatma, a cop investigating the murder of a young boy says: 'I have a bad feeling about this'. He took the words right out of my mouth. Aatma is an exercise in extreme parenting. An abusive husband, Abhay (played by Nawazuddin Siddiqui), gets a divorce, dies but comes back as a ghost so he can take his little daughter with him. The mother, Maya (played by Bipasha Basu), fights back with the help of psychologists, punditsRead full review2.0
Taran Adarsh | bollywoodhungama.com
The horror genre is getting increasingly popular with the top ranks in Bollywood. From A-list actors to reputed production houses, the output of horror movies has, all of a sudden, shown an upward trend in recent years. Besides, horror in Hindi films is no longer limited to ghosts or skeletons. It's about projecting the emotion called fear most valiantly. With the 3D technology making a big splash across the globe, the trend of making horror films in 3DRead full review2.0
Priyanka Roy | The Telegraph
Aatma has a story flimsier than Bipasha Basu’s negligees in the film. And no, there isn’t even enough skin show in this Suparn Verma film to compensate for the lack of genuine chills and thrills. What you see in the 95 minutes of this film is everything that the promos of Aatma have been showing us over the last two months. Give or take a few unintentionally hilarious moments. Yes, Aatma has a father returning from the deadRead full review2.0
Nishi Tiwari | rediff.com
A steady stream of consistently mediocre fare over decades has conditioned Hindi film fans to expect the least from horror/thriller films. Even today, when the art of storytelling in general is believed to be undergoing a radical change, the horror genre has steadfastly held on to its rusty template – dimly lit settings, actors with highly questionable acting chops, bad prosthetics, background score that assaults the senses more than it scaresRead full review2.0
Saibal Chatterjee | NDTV Movies
The intriguing premise and the evocative texture of Aatma are somewhat at odds with what the film eventually adds up to. One is tempted to look for layers of meaning beneath the images. There is none. You are left clutching at thin air. A skeletal plot and the scarcity of truly chilling moments defeat the very purpose of the paranormal thriller about a sweet little girl possessed. As a result, Aatma is not quite as mind-bending or as terrifyingRead full review2.0
Suparna Sharma | The Asian Age
For a good 30 minutes or so, Aatma conducts itself in a deliciously insidious fashion. It’s immensely eerie, without letting on much. It treats us like adults, and yet it sits above us, allowing us to marvel at how much smarter it is than us. We have no clue about what’s going on and are hooked. With rapt attention we listen to what’s being said by the visible and invisible people on the screen and ponder over the strange inanimate objects that sit aroundRead full review2.0
Rummana Ahmed | Yahoo
Suparn Verma makes sure that he has incorporated every horror film cliché in ‘Aatma’. The film’s linear narrative follows a very predictable plot trajectory that hardly delivers on the thrill quotient. Maya (Bipasha Basu) is a single mother, just divorced from her abusive husband Abhay (Nawazuddin Siddique). Abhay dies in an accident and his ghost is haunting Maya because he wants his daughter Nia (Doyel Dhawan) back. What follows is a very obviousRead full review2.0
Shubhra Gupta | Indian Express
With its somber palette and plot-with-potential, Aatma could have been a true scare-fest. But it winds down to being well begun, half done.Read full review1.5
Rajeev Masand | ibnlive.com
95 minutes have seldom felt so long, as they do while watching 'Aatma'. This curious but ultimately predictable supernatural thriller fails to escape genre conventions, falling into the same trap that so many of its predecessors have. Bipasha Basu is a single mother struggling to protect her daughter (Doyel Dhawan) from the otherworldly grasp of her dead ex-husband (Nawazuddin Siddiqui), who wants to take the little girl away with him. It's an intriguing premiseRead full review1.5
Shilpa Jamkhandikar | Reuters
The real test of a good horror movie, at least in my book, is when you can’t stop thinking about it and feel a shiver down your spine at night. All the great horror movies do that to you. Suparn Varma’s “Aatma”, about a violent man who abuses his wife in life and in death, is one film that doesn’t scare you most of the time. Instead, there is much twiddling of thumbs as you wait for the next predictable twist and yet another person to dieRead full review
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1.5
Aatma is a waste of your Time and Energy
jeevan789, 9 years agoThis is one time watch. You can watch this movie to pass your time. -
1.5
fail to scare us
hindicritic, 9 years agoThis is one time watch. You can watch this movie to pass your time.