Daawat-E-Ishq Movie Reviews


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  • Daily Bhaskar

    3.5

    Daily Bhaskar | Daily Bhaskar

    Daawat-e-Ishq has an interesting story, backed by good acting performances. ½ star extra to director Habib Faisal for treating the controversial issue so interestingly.
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  • Madhureeta Mukherjee

    3.0

    Madhureeta Mukherjee | Times of India

    Wafting flavours of love simmer via the best-known route possible - stomach. The daawat looks good, but will it leave romantics with an unforgettable taste of love?
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  • Rohit Vats

    3.0

    Rohit Vats | Hindustan Times

    Daawat-e-ishq is not a film to miss this weekend. For me, Aditya Roy Kapoor is the show-stealer in DEI. A delicious watch.
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  • Sukanya Verma

    3.0

    Sukanya Verma | Rediff

    Daawat-E-Ishq is like an exuberant menu of a newly opened restaurant that’s eager to please with its spread of scrumptious offerings that balances crowd-favourites with substance. While the sides are undercooked, the entree leaves an enjoyable aftertaste that owes much credit to its spunky actors and rest to Habib Faisal’s crisp script and direction.
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  • Noyon Jyoti Parasara

    3.0

    Noyon Jyoti Parasara | NowRunning

    Daawat-E-Ishq mixes romance and crime. Its effort is to bring up the evil called Dowry into focus and evoke some thought around it. A rather wasted effort. Having said that, Daawat is fairly entertaining. It could easily be your watch for the weekend.
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  • Mayank Shekhar

    3.0

    Mayank Shekhar | The W14

    The movie is clever and fun for the most part. Yet, as you step back for a second, you realise this is a contemporary ‘Muslim social drama’, and it is about lower middle class Indians.
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  • Teena Elizabeth

    3.0

    Teena Elizabeth | BookMyShow

    Garnished with love, fun, colorful settings and impressive performances, chef Habib prepares a grand fiesta – Daawat-e-Ishq . And if a sweet love story is your cup of tea, then don’t miss this treat.
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  • Mohar Basu

    2.5

    Mohar Basu | Koimoi

    Daawat-e-Ishq Movie Review: 2.5/5 Stars. What’s Good: Habib Faisal's blends well the food undertone with a socia...
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  • Sarita Tanwar

    2.5

    Sarita Tanwar | DNA India

    Habib Faisal has written and directed some memorable films but this one seems confused. Is it about food, romance, social message or a con film is open to interpretation. Strangely it was marketed as a food film (the title suggests it too) but the film isn’t about that. The film drags on in the second half.
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  • Bollywood Hungama News Network

    2.5

    Bollywood Hungama News Network | Bollywood Hungama

    …the plot of DAAWAT-E-ISHQ does have a good social message relevant to today’s times, however, wrong marketing and slow pace of the film leaves the audience a bit disappointed.
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  • Shubha Shetty-Saha

    2.5

    Shubha Shetty-Saha | Mid Day

    The premise is promising and the intention is right. In a country where dowry is still a huge social malaise (the stats shown in the beginning of the film tell us that even now every hour, one woman in the country is killed for dowry), this film attempts to present the serious cause on an entertaining platter.
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  • Subhash K Jha

    2.5

    Subhash K Jha | SKJBollywoodNews

    I came away with the baap-beti relationship rather than the love story. As for food, I craved for more. Burp re burp.
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  • Rahul Desai

    2.5

    Rahul Desai | Mumbai Mirror

    In tennis terms, Daawat-e-Ishq, much like its maker, resembles that big-serving player who can boom in aces at will. But as soon as the ball is returned for a rally to be constructed, the player freezes. And the ideas dry up.
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  • Anindita Dev

    2.5

    Anindita Dev | Zee News

    Direction is good, and the storyline and plot is average. The dialogues are apt and to an extent the humour also strikes the right note with the audiences. Though there is nothing new in the script, but it is served with a whiff of fresh air.
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  • Sonia Chopra

    2.5

    Sonia Chopra | Sify

    Writer-director Habib Faisal (Do Dooni Chaar, Ishaqzaade) attempts a foodie rom-com with a well-intentioned message. Perhaps it’s too much to put into one film, and all you get is undercooked, bland biryani, where the flavours clash instead of complementing each other.
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  • IndiaTvNews Reviewer

    2.5

    IndiaTvNews Reviewer | IndiaTvNews

    …whatever Habib has in his junket is surely to be tried once. He may have missed out on appropriate amount of spices or may have just scalded couple of the recipes but he manages to keep us engaged in his carnival ‘Daawat-e-Ishq’.
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  • Rajeev Masand

    2.0

    Rajeev Masand | IBNLive

    What started off promisingly is never fully exploited. Shame.
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  • Sachin Chatte

    2.0

    Sachin Chatte | The Navhind Times

    The acting, especially Parineeti Chopra and the reliable Anupam Kher are the saving grace. While the film has got some of the things right, the fact is that the story is a dud. I was left hungry, not for food but for a good film.
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  • Martin D'Souza

    2.0

    Martin D'Souza | Glamsham

    …daawat is tasteless! The intention of director Habib Faisal is noble, but the route he has taken is long and boring.
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  • IndiaGlitz

    2.0

    IndiaGlitz | India Glitz

    Challenging the most generous to digest it, Daawat-E-Ishq is an overlong bore where the food in the film makes you hungry while the film makes you angry by its humdrum handling of romance, food and dowry.
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  • Prateek Sur

    2.0

    Prateek Sur | Bollywood Life

    The otherwise predictable story is saved by the brilliant performance of the cast. it isn’t a great film but is good enough for a one-time watch.
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  • Suparna Sharma

    1.5

    Suparna Sharma | Deccan Chronicle

    In the film’s dull menu the only item of interest is Aditya Roy Kapoor. Despite the complete lack of reciprocity from Parineeti, he is able to get intimate with her and turn the screen into a pool of feelings. He makes you want to be in love. Parineeti is a charming and competent actress but now she’s getting repetitive and boring. And here she isn’t even invested in her role. Her Hyderabadi accent comes and goes, like the fluctuating talent of Anupam Kher.
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  • Shubhra Gupta

    1.5

    Shubhra Gupta | Indian Express

    As Gullu’s straight-laced but loving father, Anupam Kher gives the film its only moments of honesty. The rest is an unpalatable snoozefest.
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  • Rachit Gupta

    NR

    Rachit Gupta | Filmfare

    Even the spicy and spirited performances by Parineeti and Aditya fail to satiate one’s appetite for real drama. Even Sajid Wajid’s tasteful music goes to sheer waste. This could’ve been a real seven-course fiesta but the misguided vision and thanda drama reduce this feature film to side dish status. Nothing wrong in it technically. A side dish can be the perfect complement to a good meal. But it can never be a stomach full. No matter how much you stuff yourself with it.
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  • Sneha May Francis

    NR

    Sneha May Francis | Emirates247

    Despite promises of a delectable cookout that could send our (visual) tastebuds into a tizzy, director-writer Habib Fazil’s recipe of love leaves us rather famished…
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  • Piyasree Dasgupta

    NR

    Piyasree Dasgupta | Firstpost

    Parineeti Chopra, Aditya Roy Kapur’s film is so not delicious…
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  • Deepanjana Pal

    NR

    Deepanjana Pal | Firstpost

    Despite honourable intentions, all Faisal has done with Daawat-e-Ishq is brought every paranoid chauvinist’s nightmares to life on celluloid.
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  • Nandini Ramnath

    NR

    Nandini Ramnath | LiveMint

    Overcooked and unsatisfying smorgasbord…
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  • Anuj Kumar

    NR

    Anuj Kumar | The Hindu

    A relevant social message delivered in an entertaining fashion…
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  • JPN

    NR

    JPN | Jagran

    Daawat-e-Ishq with its fragrance will take you to seventies; however the spirit of the movie is youthful and contemporary. Garnished with Aditya and Parineeti’s impressive performance the movie can be summed up as a dish made up using an old recipe with a modern fusion.
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  • Priyanka Prasad

    NR

    Priyanka Prasad | FilmiBeat

    Quite a masaledaar yummy movie that is a good one time watch but not so great that it would be the biggest blockbuster movie of the year. But Habib’s direction, and the spicy tale definitely deserves to be watched.
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  • jyothimathur

    4.0

    My review of Daawat-E-Ishq (2014) by bangreaayushi

    jyothimathur, 9 years ago
    Flavors of love! The film Daaawat-e-Ishq had many delicacies deliciously all spread in a single ‘thali’. The film starts with a mix and match tale of legal laws in a single segment. Let’s see what the movie has stored in for you. The film starts with the introduction of ‘Gulluu’ who is brought up by her father in Hyderabad. She hails from a Muslim family. Since ‘Gullu’ is in her final year, her father decides to get her married before he get retired. Her father is in service in a high court in Hyderabad. So he brings many matches for ‘Gullu’ but all of them demand dowry in return. So, ‘Gullu’ decides to use the ‘dowry act’ against her would be in-laws in order to fulfill her dreams. So one day, she convinces her father about the same and the duo executes their planning part from Lucknow. It is after this, she registers her name in a matrimonial site for marriage with a fake identity and fake name as ‘Sania Habibullah’. But it is after this, she and her father searches for a groom from whom they can get heavy theft. Then in the picture comes Taru (Aditya Roy Kapoor) who is the owner of a famous hotel in Lucknow. He has customers coming from all over India. So, he impresses her and even she starts falling for him. But somewhere she forgets that she is getting married to him only for the sake of getting money in order to fulfill her dreams. So, immediately after the wedding, she ditches him and seeks all the money. But somewhere she feels cheated to him. So, after getting back to her place she gets to know that she is in love with him and decides to return the money to him. But here in Lucknow, Taroo gets very frustrated and he comes to Gullu’s place, Hyderabad. The end is shown how both of them meet at railway station and how Gullu confesses her love for Taroo. The film ends with a successful conclusion. Talking about the performances, Parineeti, Anupum Kher has made strong impact in the movie. Tarik Haider aka Taroo (Aditya) shines throughout the film as a Lucknowi Nawab in the film. The film has many soothing songs without which the film couldn’t have succeeded without these beautiful compositions. The film has a great cinematography. Parineeti has excelled in her Hyderabadi tone and body language. This film was a debut film of Karan Wahi who had fitted correctly in the shoes of a ‘Chocolaty boy’ image. The film’s locations such as Hyderabad and Lucknow are very beautifully shown. The film hits your heart with great story and great songs. There are many fascinating moments of a father and a daughter’s love. You really cannot miss them. What has added flavors to films is the song, ‘Daawat-e-ishq’ where you get to see many delicacies and foods served to around a troop of 500 dancers.

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