Gabbar is Back Movie Reviews


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2.5
Verdict: Timepass based on 26 reviews
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  • Subhash K Jha

    4.0

    Subhash K Jha | SKJBollywoodNews

    Gabbar Is Back knocks the bottom off the action genre with a breathless ode to Swach Bharat. The film may appear louder-than-life to the dainty-hearted. But the tone is unapologetic massy.You can’t change the disintegrating social order by being subtle.Miraculously Akshay Kumar does exactly that.
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  • IndiaGlitz

    4.0

    IndiaGlitz | India Glitz

    …finds the ideal icon in Akshay Kumar to spearhead it’s on screen crusade against corruption. The super fit B-town Action Icon is stunning cutting a dashing figure with style, seriousness, populisms and the ‘cool’ quotient. Lovers of Akshay Kumar and Bollywood masala action khush hoga.. Shabaashi Dega…
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  • Srijana Mitra Das

    3.5

    Srijana Mitra Das | Times of India

    With gritty reality, Gabbar has glamour too – Shruti charms with her soft, pretty appeal while a cameo by Kareena adds sheen but doesn’t divert. The second half’s blood pressure doesn’t fully match the first (Patil’s insistent ‘I am a brand!’ gets repetitive while CBI officer Pahwa looks clueless without Sadhuram’s ‘axellent’ work) – but the climax pushes up the adrenaline again.
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  • Ritika Handoo

    3.5

    Ritika Handoo | Zee News

    The filmmaker Krish has tried to bring forth the point that how youth can do wonders if the energy is channelised on the right path. The way and mechanism through which Gabbar stings the corrupt officials, thereby creating a sense of terror among everyone is incredible to watch. The film never loses its momentum—with some power-packed punches and high jumps.
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  • BookMyShow Team

    3.5

    BookMyShow Team | BookMyShow

    …is an action-packed film which has Akshay Kumar doing what he does best. Catch the movie to check out his all new action avatar and also to get an idea about how corruption is rotting various systems in our country, be it the government or the health industry.
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  • Murtaza Ali Khan

    3.5

    Murtaza Ali Khan | APotpourriOfVestiges

    While Gabbar is Back is rife with theatrically orchestrated chaos and carnage, there is a brilliantly devised adduction sequence with hundreds of masked men that’s a real treat to watch. Despite the flaws and gimmicks, ‘Gabbar is Back’ simultaneously entertains and makes us think. Recommended!
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  • Bollywood Hungama News Network

    3.0

    Bollywood Hungama News Network | Bollywood Hungama

    …an average entertainer which will draw huge footfalls over the weekend due to catchy massy title, action drama and the fact that it is releasing on a holiday. Post the weekend, the film will have to rely on ‘PWD’ (Performance on Week Days) to see it sail through. If you are sick and tired of corruption in India, then, you shall find GABBAR IS BACK inspiring, else you may find it boring and preachy.
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  • Rohit Vats

    3.0

    Rohit Vats | Hindustan Times

    Gabbar Is Back is a full on ‘masala’ film with a lot of applause worthy scenes. The buck stops at Akshay Kumar.
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  • Surabhi Redkar

    3.0

    Surabhi Redkar | Koimoi

    If you enjoy films which have the good vs evil story with full on action and ‘Dhamakedaar’ dialogues, this is your film. For Akshay Kumar fans this one is a treat as the weekend watch. I found it entertaining in parts…
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  • Martin D'Souza

    3.0

    Martin D'Souza | Glamsham

    The movie is entertaining, in the sense, that it touches on a very important topic of corruption and how the common man is taken for a ride. This one is even better than the much touted film on the common man, KHATTA MEETHA (2010).
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  • Priyanka Prasad

    3.0

    Priyanka Prasad | FilmiBeat

    In spite of being a remake movie, Gabbar Is Back is the best version ever made. Watch it for Akshay and watch it because it is an entertaining movie that will kick the boredom out of you like how Akshay kicks his villains.
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  • Manjusha Radhakrishnan

    2.5

    Manjusha Radhakrishnan | Gulf News

    While the director and the actor’s hearts are in the right place, it would have served the viewers a lot better if they had paid more attention to the script. Gabbar is Back is strictly for Akshay Kumar fans who can tolerate his chest-thumping jingoism. He’s a rebel with a cause and he makes sure that no one forgets it for a second.
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  • Sarita Tanwar

    2.5

    Sarita Tanwar | DNA India

    This Gabbar is meant strictly for the masala-of-yore fans…
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  • Rummana Ahmed

    2.5

    Rummana Ahmed | Yahoo

    ‘Gabbar Is Back’ is not a complete waste of time, it is just a very problematic film.
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  • Mehul S Thakkar

    2.0

    Mehul S Thakkar | Deccan Chronicle

    Akshay Kumar has put sincere efforts in every department be it intense or romantic scenes. But all the elements of screenplay, editing, and storyline put together doesn’t really help to drive the point back home. The climax of the film is a yawn and doesn’t move you at all.
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  • Ananya Bhattacharya

    2.0

    Ananya Bhattacharya | India Today

    Watch it if you want to re-see Akshay Kumar’s superhuman antics, which he’s pretty much mastered by now – Rowdy Rathore, Boss, Khiladi 786, ad nauseam, ad infinitum. It’s almost as if that famous dialogue from Sholay’s Gabbar, “Ab tera kya hoga Kaaliya,’ is directed towards the audience. Gabbar Is Back, and is back in a severely logic-less form. Yet, the film is a one-time watch. Akshay Kumar fans will love it, yes. As for the others, take a well-thought out call.
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  • Shubha Shetty-Saha

    2.0

    Shubha Shetty-Saha | Mid Day

    The only saving grace of this film is Akshay Kumar, who not only looks dishy with a beard, but does try giving a convincing performance in this not at all convincing film. But then he should have chosen better.
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  • Johnson Thomas

    2.0

    Johnson Thomas | The Free Press Journal

    The preachy overtones, the conscious sermonizing, silly antics, unbelievable action stunts, confounding logic in the sequence of events and Kumar’s staccato dialogue delivery don’t allow for much enjoyment here. Standard Stereotypes ,clichés, formulaic elements make it that much more difficult to make sense of. Director Krish and his editor manage to make it slick but the disjointedness and incoherence doesn’t stay hidden for long. Watch it only if you are a die-hard Akshay Kumar fan!
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  • Piyush Chopra

    2.0

    Piyush Chopra | NowRunning

    Whoever said “it’s the thought that matters” clearly didn’t have to sit through the 2+ hours of faux vigilantism that is Gabbar is Back. The idea behind it might’ve been right, but the treatment is all wrong.
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  • Sonia Chopra

    2.0

    Sonia Chopra | Sify

    This is a low-brow, gimmicky film that capitalizes on one of Hindi film’s most iconic villains, and more unforgivably, on the aam junta’s frustrations with the system.
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  • Meeta Kabra

    2.0

    Meeta Kabra | Wogma

    Many a film have addressed corruption top to bottom and back to the top. This one hits a sweet spot by including malpractice in the private sector. Along with the bureaucrats, politicians, and law and order . Gabbar is Back takes on the misuse of power held by doctors and hospitals when a near one is unwell.Other than this one plot point the rest of Gabbar Is Back is as run-of-the-mill as it gets.
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  • Rajeev Masand

    1.5

    Rajeev Masand | IBNLive

    From the clumsy plotting and a manipulative back-story featuring a visibly disinterested Kareena Kapoor, to the been-there-seen-that action scenes and the uninspired score, there’s little to recommend in this movie. At best, Akshay Kumar lays on the charm in a few well-timed sequences. But it’s too small a reward in exchange for sitting through this boring film.Not surprisingly, your migraine’s back too!
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  • Raja Sen

    1.5

    Raja Sen | Rediff

    Even as an exploitative gimmick, it could have been used more cleverly, but here we have a full-length cinematic equivalent of Bali Brahmbhatt’s Gabbar Mix. Using the very name of the most fearsome villain in our cinema should mean something, but here it just gives the filmmakers an excuse to cast a dark-skinned actor as an executioner just so Akshay can tease him (even though he’s just an innocent fellow doing his job) with the “Tera kya hoga Kaaliya?” line. Ugh.Stay away from theatres, I’d say. 50-kos away, even.
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  • Saibal Chatterjee

    1.5

    Saibal Chatterjee | NDTV

    Clearly, nobody put the makers of this film through the paces. They might have then known how to make the best of their limited cinematic resources and craft something less mucky.Watch Gabbar Is Back only if you are a diehard Akshay Kumar fan.
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  • Shubhra Gupta

    1.5

    Shubhra Gupta | Indian Express

    I’ve said this several times, but I’m ready to implore again: can Bollywood please, please stop making these tired, tiresome remakes? And let sleeping Gabbars lie?
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  • Mayank Shekhar

    1.5

    Mayank Shekhar | The W14

    This is a super hero film. Like all Bollywood super-star actioners are. The hero is expected to make a dozen men fly and eat dust with one stroke of his arm. That fauladi arm, as you know, belongs to Akki man. This means, as you might have also guessed: The presence of no one else matters on the screen.
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  • Sneha May Francis

    NR

    Sneha May Francis | Emirates247

    Akshay Kumar gives his all to ‘Gabbar is back’…Unfortunately Krish damages the reputation that ‘Sholay’ lend the legend.
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  • Rachit Gupta

    NR

    Rachit Gupta | Filmfare

    In this story’s fifth rendition, filming gimmicks and juvenile humour upstage logical writing and character development. The end result is a lackluster and utterly pointless film trying too hard to impress.
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  • Mihir Fadnavis

    NR

    Mihir Fadnavis | Firstpost

    Akshay Kumar remakes a Telegu version of a Tamil film and it’s a disaster. The only ray of light in this rumbling assault of stupidity is that the film is only two hours and ten minutes long, short enough to return home and assuage your grief by browsing Vijaykanth’s resplendent clips on YouTube.
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  • Shilpa Jamkhandikar

    NR

    Shilpa Jamkhandikar | Reuters

    …a dated film, both in look and feel, and the cast seems to know it too. They all ham it up like the Bollywood actors of the 1980s. Kumar is required to throw in a few punches, which he manages to do with aplomb, but other than that, doesn’t put in much effort.
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  • JPN

    NR

    JPN | Jagran

    The only saving grace of this film is Akshay Kumar, who not only looks dishy with a beard, but does try giving a convincing performance in this not at all convincing film. But then he should have chosen better.
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  • IndiaTvNews Reviewer

    NR

    IndiaTvNews Reviewer | IndiaTvNews

    Despite everything, the film survives to tell-a-tale that is relevant today. ‘Gabbar Is Back’ knocks the bottom off the action genre with a breathless ode to Swachh Bharat. The film may appear louder-than-life instead of larger-than-life but the tone is unapologetic massy. You can’t change the disintegrating social order by being delicate towards it. Akshay Kumar amazingly, through his bearded, brooding leadership, explains that.
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