Bajirao Mastani Movie Reviews
5.0
Subhash K Jha | SKJBollywoodNews
Bajirao Mastani is a masterpiece that teaches us many important lessons on love and and life. Most of all it shows us that another Mughal-e-Azam is possible in this day and age because there is a filmmaker who possesses the epic vision of K Asif.Read full review4.0
Srijana Mitra Das | Times of India
Bajirao-Mastani resembles Jodhaa-Akbar with teeth that bite, Mughal-e-Azam with shades of philosophical grey. It rediscovers roots to Maratha pride – and bravely confronts one of India’s most crucial questions now. Quickly ‘chala’ to the biggest screen you can find.Read full review4.0
Sarita Tanwar | DNA India
A film for lovers. Especially those who didn’t get a happy ending.Read full review4.0
Taran Adarsh | Bollywood Hungama
…a cinematic gem that you just cannot miss. Tremendous performances, deft direction, power-packed screenwriting and dialogue, melodious soundtrack and of course, the lavish mounting — this film has it all. Strongly recommended!Read full review4.0
Martin D'Souza | Glamsham
Bajirao Mastani celebrates love, life, the longing of a man torn between three women (including his mother), his loyalty and his helplessness when faced with religious diktats! Bajirao Mastani also celebrates the mood of the moment!Read full review4.0
Dhriti Sharma | Zee News
A challenge to the critics’ lens and a treat to viewers—‘Bajirao Mastani’ is gloriously grand! Book the tickets without a doubt.Read full review4.0
Preeti Kulkarni | Bollywood Life
Ranveer Singh take a bow! You have ended the year with a BANG. Do not miss this cinematic brilliance at any cost. Book your tickets today.Read full review4.0
Prathamesh Jadhav | India
Bajirao Mastani is certainly a one time watch. The confluence of the Mughal impressions and the Maratha establishment is beautifully portrayed. Ranveer Singh plays the Bajirao Peshwa with remarkable conviction. He keeps a peculiar Marathi twang consistent. He packs so much honesty and sincerity into the performance. Deepika looks smouldering hot as Mastani and delivers yet another scintillating act. Priyanka Chopra looks promising too. The epic love story is as arresting as it is beautiful in terms of its scale and drama. SLB leaves no stone unturned to ensure that he produces a visual delight like no other!Read full review3.5
Surabhi Redkar | Koimoi
Not Deepika, Ranveer Singh and Priyanka Chopra lace this film with their brilliant performances. Watch the film for Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s artistic vision and definitely Ranveer’s career-best act.Read full review3.5
Ananya Bhattacharya | India Today
In all, Bajirao Mastani is an experience. And one that needs to be savoured in a theatre.Read full review3.5
Shubha Shetty-Saha | Mid-Day
Watch this film for its larger-than-life cinematic experience, and of course, Ranveer Singh.Read full review3.5
Sandhya Ramachandran | About
Bajirao Mastani is a must-watch, but set the right expectations before you go in! Don’t look for a complete meal, or even one to fill you up. Go there much so that you remember the feast by the number of exotic dishes, although in the middle of the night, you may still feel a little under-fed and hunt for a snack!Read full review3.5
Pinkvilla Team | PinkVilla
Its gimmicks, its indulgence, its flaws, all blend in by the time the end credits roll. The sweeping visuals, the distracting tapestry, the engaging love story and the unapologetic, unabashed love for the celluloid is what makes Bajirao Mastani haunting. Bajirao Mastani is monumental… Every line has a dialogue polished with care, every shot a dream you are bound to love. SLB has never been this earnest and that’s enough to forgive all his aiyashis he has subjected us to. This one is just Mohabbat…straight from the heart.Read full review3.5
R.M. Vijayakar | IndiaWest
“Bajirao Mastani” is a great one-time big-screen watch. A crisper edit and stronger content in the second half could have made this one a classic.Read full review3.0
Kusumita Das | Deccan Chronicle
A melodramatic climax aside, the film is undoubtedly a quality product, Bhansali always ensures that. But what makes it fall just short of excellence is the lack of the journey within. We never get inside the characters, especially Bajirao’s, a man who is caught in the fierce dilemma between the heart and the state. We only see the events unfold on screen one after another. It is Bhansali tipping his jewel-encrusted hat off to an epic love story in Maratha folklore. But a glimpse of the mind would have made the picture complete.Read full review3.0
Saibal Chatterjee | NDTV
Bajirao Mastani is for those that think history is boring. There isn’t a dull moment in this colourful and dramatic film that embraces excess with unabashed abandon.Read full review3.0
Shishir Gautam | NowRunning
A compromised screenplay notwithstanding Bajirao Mastani sets standards high. Bhansali outdoes himself at many levels. Watch the film for the sheer scale and scintillating performances.Read full review2.5
Sweta Kaushal | Hindustan Times
If you appreciate Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s opulence and grandeur, this won’t disappoint. It can be a good one-time watch, for Deepika’s performance, if not anything else.Read full review2.5
Manjari Saxena | Gulf News
Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s latest offering is not much more than a visual spectacle…Read full review2.0
Raja Sen | Rediff
This is a giant film, a magnum opus drunk on its own magnum-ity, and it is perfectly clear early on, as the narrative races out the gate and gauntlets are flung up in the air and shot through with arrows, that a film like this can only work as opera.Read full review1.5
Shubhra Gupta | Indian Express
The grandiosity wears off. You long for a genuinely moving, exciting story, featuring all these beautiful people, all actors able to pull off characters, but buried under their mounds of clothes, mouthing dialogue. ‘Bajirao Mastani’ had the potential to be a terrific historical. What it ends up being is a costume drama: too many costumes, too much revved-up, empty drama, and too little story.Read full reviewNR
Sneha May Francis | Emirates247
While Bajirao and Mastani’s love story is fascinating, no doubt, directing more of the screenplay to his military accomplishments could’ve turned it into a far more credible watch. For now, it’s a pretty picture that stops short of being great cinema.Read full reviewNR
Gayatri Gauri | Firstpost
…may not be perfect but is a memorable, mesmerizing and dazzling piece of cinematic vision.Read full reviewNR
Criselle Lobo | BookMyShow
From intense war scenes to sweet romantic exchanges, Bajirao Mastani will keep you engrossed till the very end. The actors are a delight to watch and make the movie even more enjoyable. This weekend, do yourself a favor — go watch Bajirao Mastani. It’s Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s best work till date.Read full reviewNR
Shilpa Jamkhandikar | Reuters
Despite all its faults, “Bajirao Mastani” is propped up by the performances of Singh and Chopra; and for that alone, it’s worth a watch. Just forget your history lessons inside the theatre.Read full reviewNR
Uday Bhatia | LiveMint
Bhansali’s long-awaited ‘Bajirao Mastani’ is unapologetically sumptuous…Read full reviewNR
Namrata Joshi | The Hindu
Sanjay Leela Bhansali returns with another visual spectacle that wilfully takes liberties with the past that it depicts. But it does manage to engage even as it exhausts.Read full reviewNR
Swikriti Srivastava | FilmiBeat
It is surely a must watch, doesn’t matter whether you are a Deepika, Ranveer or Priyanka fan; no two opinions about it! A perfect masterpiece by Sanjay Leela Bhansali. Not forgetting to mention, it’s the kind of film that you will carry in your heart.Read full reviewNR
Lokesh Dharmani | Masala
If you gush calling Bhansali an artist, his movies oh-so-beautiful, sheer poetry and all that, then Bajirao Mastani won’t disappoint!Read full reviewNR
Nandini Ramnath | Scroll.in
… sumptuous retelling of the legend is strong on romance but weak on statecraft.Read full review