Gulaal Movie Reviews
4.0
Shashi Baliga | Hindustan Times
Anurag Kashyap inhabits a nasty, brutish space that every so often, like a volcano, erupts to spit out its molten venom. It can be an overwhelming, sometimes suffocating experience, but an immenselyRead full review3.5
Udita Jhunjhunwala | DNA India
Set in a fictional town in Rajasthan, the story is built on the historical facts of an aristocracy deprived of their privy purses during Indira Gandhi's rule who found themselves humiliated and pennilessRead full review3.0
Rajeev Masand | ibnlive.com
Gulaal, directed by Anurag Kashyap is an endlessly fascinating movie about politics and the youth, about love and betrayal, about reform and revenge. It's a film with many layers, and one with solid dramaRead full review3.0
Priyanka Roy | The Telegraph
Somewhere in the second half of Gulaal, Kay Kay Menon’s Dukey Bana, a Rajasthan feudal lord on the threshold of spearheading a Rajputana movement against the Indian government, turns aroundRead full review3.0
Nikhat Kazmi | Times of India
Anurag Kashyap leaves behind the emotional atyachar of Dev D for an equally violent and chaotic world of student politics in Gulal. Of course, according to reports, he made Gulal much beforeRead full review3.0
Raja Sen | rediff.com
Too much Democracy can go to your head. In this case, we're just talking about beer. Anurag Kashyap's engagingly made new political drama, Gulaal, has interestingly named brands of alcoholRead full review3.0
Mayank Shekhar | Mumbai Mirror
The slim model Jesse Randhawa, who plays a young assistant professor in this film, lights up a cigarette in the staff room when a colleague points out she cannot. Out of sympathy, no one may mind you doing itRead full review2.5
Taran Adarsh | bollywoodhungama.com
Accuse him of thinking abstract, but you cannot accuse Anurag Kashyap of following the stereotype. In GULAAL, the storyteller attempts to tell multiple stories in one film. Student politics, a separate stateRead full review2.0
Aniruddha Guha | DNA India
Student politics and youth rivalry have always made for gritty thrillers. Back in the 70s, Gulzar cast a very young Vinod Khanna and a villainous Shatrughan Sinha in Mere Apne - the story of a battleRead full reviewNR
Nikhat Kazmi | Times of India
Anurag Kashyap leaves behind the 'emotional atyachar' of 'Dev D' for an equally violent and chaotic world of student politics in 'Gulaal'.Read full review