Aatma Movie Reviews


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  • Renuka Vyavahare

    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 point
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  • Renuka Vyavahare

    3.0

    Renuka Vyavahare | Times of India

    Aatma may not send shivers down your spine, but it dares to be unconventional.
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  • Resham Sengar

    3.0

    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.
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  • Ashay D

    2.5

    Ashay D | Koimoi

    Aatma Movie Review: What’s Good: Nawazuddin’s acting, Sound, lighting and art direction. What’s Bad: The unn...
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  • Shadab Hasnain

    2.5

    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......
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  • Anupama Chopra

    2.0

    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, pundits
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  • Taran Adarsh

    2.0

    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 3D
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  • Priyanka Roy

    2.0

    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 dead
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  • Nishi Tiwari

    2.0

    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 scares
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  • Saibal Chatterjee

    2.0

    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 terrifying
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  • Suparna Sharma

    2.0

    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 around
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  • Rummana Ahmed

    2.0

    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 obvious
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  • Shubhra Gupta

    2.0

    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.
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  • Rajeev Masand

    1.5

    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 premise
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  • Shilpa Jamkhandikar

    1.5

    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 die
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  • jeevan789

    1.5

    Aatma is a waste of your Time and Energy

    jeevan789, 9 years ago
    This is one time watch. You can watch this movie to pass your time.
  • hindicritic

    1.5

    fail to scare us

    hindicritic, 9 years ago
    This is one time watch. You can watch this movie to pass your time.
  • thomas.richard

    3.0

    A good horror ride

    thomas.richard, 9 years ago
    This is nice movie. I liked it.

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