Naam Shabana Movie Reviews


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2.5
Verdict: Timepass based on 17 reviews
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3.0
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  • Subhash K Jha

    4.0

    Subhash K Jha | SKJBollywoodNews

    Naam Shabana is a film of rude awakening, reminding us how much maturity in vision treatment execution and the performances a film can achieve provided  it stops looking for reasons to make audiences happy.Watching this film is a joy, although nothing really happy happens to Shabana. We are just happy that she can fight her own battles even when the odds are stacked skyhighagainst her.
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  • IANS

    4.0

    IANS | Sify

    Naam Shabana is a film of rude awakening, reminding us how much maturity in vision treatment execution and the performances, a film can achieve provided it stops looking for reasons to make audiences happy. Watching this film is a joy, although nothing really happy happens to Shabana. We are just happy that she can fight her own battles even when the odds are stacked skyhigh against her.
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  • Vishal Verma

    3.5

    Vishal Verma | Glamsham

    NAAM SHABANA may not have an innovative plot but it’s a definite crowd pleaser. The makers have probably planned this probable money spinner banking on the popularity of their previous brilliant BABY and the movie doesn’t disappoint in entertaining the action thriller hungry souls of Bollywood and also gives a soothing nostalgia to the diehard BABY enthusiast. NAAM SHABANA is a decent bahana (reason) for Bollywood makers to start thinking on the spin off genre and churn some more interesting twist.
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  • Meena Iyer

    3.0

    Meena Iyer | Times of India

    Taapsee delivers some knockout punches and is sincere enough. Manoj is brilliant, though he has just dialogue-baazi and no action to support him. As for Akshay, he is happy to lend his superstar-presence and bask in the girl power. So go ahead and salute his spirit.
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  • Manjusha Radhakrishnan

    3.0

    Manjusha Radhakrishnan | Gulf News

    If you are game to watch some good acting and realistic action sequences, then Naam Shabana should be on your list. But if you are in search of a watertight plot, then this movie has missed that mark.
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  • Samrudhi Gosh

    2.5

    Samrudhi Gosh | India Today

    While in Baby, the climax is almost nail-biting, Naam Shabana makes it all too easy to get rid of the bad guy. If you want to watch Naam Shabana, do; just make sure you don’t go in with the expectation of watching a riveting action-thriller like Baby.
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  • Manisha Lakhe

    2.5

    Manisha Lakhe | NowRunning

    Naam Shabana is a spinoff backstory of one of the characters from the successful film ‘Baby,’ the story is a tad too obvious, but the action sequences redeem the film.
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  • Sreeju Sudhakaran

    2.5

    Sreeju Sudhakaran | Bollywood Life

    Watch Naam Shabana purely for Taapsee Pannu’s fine performance and Akshay Kumar’s enjoyable cameo, and also if you loved Baby too much. Just don’t go into theatre expecting another quality stuff like Baby, even if the movie forces us to draw comparisons.
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  • Madhuri

    2.5

    Madhuri | FilmiBeat

    Naam Shabana is a major letdown especially when you walk into the theatre halls carrying good ol’ Baby nostalgia and expecting a similar adrenaline rush. In a nutshell, we would prefer to settle for a rewatch of the 2015 espionage-thriller instead!
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  • FridayMoviez Reviewer

    2.5

    FridayMoviez Reviewer | FridayMoviez

    ‘Naam Shabana’ offers a fair treat in the form of the actors but somewhere fails to leave its mark like the sequel. The slow pace of the story-line and the dialogues can be blamed for this let down. Filled with action and only action, the film is highly recommended ONLY for all the ardent followers of Akshay Kumar and Taapsee Pannu as well. And of course for the vivid fans of the sequel ‘Baby.’
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  • Shomini Sen

    2.0

    Shomini Sen | IBNLive

    Naam Shabana is well intended but is unable to take flight due to poor writing.
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  • Rohit Bhatnagar

    2.0

    Rohit Bhatnagar | Deccan Chronicle

    The film could have been better paced, all thanks to the under-cooked narrative. Naam Shabana is a throw away effort from director Shivam Nair and producer Neeraj Pandey, where the only saving grace is Taapsee’s act.
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  • Vaihayasi Pande Daniel

    2.0

    Vaihayasi Pande Daniel | Rediff

    Naam Shabana is a sleek film, that unfolds at a wonderfully breakneck speed. It’s crisp with no shoo-sha like my colleague Rajesh predicted.
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  • Saibal Chatterjee

    2.0

    Saibal Chatterjee | NDTV

    Naam Shabana, for all its avowed aspirations, it rarely ventures beyond the trite and tested. Watch it only if standard-fare action dramas do not put you off.
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  • Mayank Shekhar

    2.0

    Mayank Shekhar | Mid-Day

    Pandey has written this prequel, split into two totally separate films. And to be fair when the movie does cut to the chase eventually, to chase down the villain, some of the thrills do kick in. Sadly you’ve polished off your popcorn tub already, taking in the corniness until that point, while your head spins in circles in this pointless spin-off, listening to the zany ‘Zubi zubi zubi’ number from Mithun’s ‘Dance Dance’ (1987), and so much else.
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  • Shubhra Gupta

    1.5

    Shubhra Gupta | Indian Express

    The final nail is the incessant, annoying background music. It blares non-stop and makes this film even longer than it is.Naam Shabana leaves you with a niggling question: why create a heroine in the action hero mode, with both mind and heart, and then give her a big bro to ‘help’ her out? This results in second-guessing your biggest asset, wondering if she is a liability.
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  • Anna MM Vetticad

    1.5

    Anna MM Vetticad | Firstpost

    Naam Shabana is a better film than Baby. It has a more polished appearance, and the idiotic bad guy here is at least less idiotic than the amateurs in the earlier film.
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