David Movie Reviews

Don’t give this film a miss. So do grab your ticket at the earliest and treat yourself with something that’s never seen before.

David has enough sinew to offset its share of flaws. Strongly recommended.

Yes, the Devil’s in the detail. But maybe David needed more ‘D’ of ‘Depth’ in the story to make this more ‘Delightful’.

There’s much to appreciate here, but you can’t help feeling it could have been so much more.

In terms of filmmaking, David is an uncompromised experiment and steers clear of comfort zones crediting its viewers’ capability to join dots without excessive spoon-feeding, a practice that eludes mainstream Hindi cinema.

This could well have been the pithy pitch for Bejoy Nambiar's new film of the same name which zooms in on 1975, 1999, and 2010 on the same day/date, and switches back and forth between time zones and countries/cities : London, Mumbai and Goa. The three strands are unified through a device : the men who are the focal point of the stories all go by the same name. It's an interesting conceit, and Nambiar's film has stylistic flourish

‘David’ speaks of a new kind of Bollywood which doesn’t want to be slavish to stars or formulae. But it also speaks of a filmmaking which isn’t quite as accomplished as it would like to be, or should be. It points to the presence of craft, sure, but craft which should be paying much more attention to the crucial elements of centrality and coherence. ‘David’ coasts on a few startlingly sharp scenes and zippy musical interludes, but doesn’t add up to the sum of its zanier parts.

DAVID is more style, less substance. A few moments do stand out, but they are few and far between. Coming from the director of SHAITAN, this one’s a mega disappointment!

David Movie Review: What’s Good: The direction; the stories; Vikram’s excellent acting; the screenplay; the st...