Hum Tum Shabana Movie Reviews
2.0
Nikhat Kazmi | Times of India
Sagar Ballary sure seems to be losing his expertise at Bheja Frying with comedies that are meant to tickle the rib, without being slapstick. Like the Bheja Fry films, Hum Tum Shabana too is meant to make you laugh. But the entire first half slips through without eliciting a single smile.Read full review2.0
Martin D'Souza | Glamsham
Though the film is not long, a 20-minute cut would have made a world of difference. It’s not a deadly comedy, but at least Bellary focuses on his prime motive – to make you laugh.Read full review1.5
Taran Adarsh | bollywoodhungama.com
At the cost of repeating myself, I wish to state that comedy is serious business and making people laugh in those two hours is a herculean task. HUM TUM SHABANA may not be the most inventive film made in Bollywood, but, yes, it delivers what it promises -- loads of laughter -- at least in the first hour. But how one wishes the post-interval portions were as rip-roaring funny, since that's what you carry home when the movie concludes.Read full review1.5
Subhash K. Jha | NDTV Movies
Coming from a comic guru like Sagar Bellary, who has given comedies like Bheja Fry and Bheja Fry 2, Hum Tum Shabana is a total let down. Unlike his previous films, this has various scenes from different comedy films strung together to look like a comic masterpiece.Read full review1.5
Pooja Thakkar | Film Street Journal
The film makes a strained attempt to make you laugh and succeeds very sporadically. The comic timing and dialogue delivery of Satish Kaushik and Sanjay Mishra as Munna Military raise the standard and evoke some chuckles. Tusshar, Minissha and Shreyas give competent performances.Read full review1.5
IANS | IBNLive
The screenplay and story offer no originality. Visually the film is colourful, but the editing, oh yes, the editing with the usage of graphics and computerised effects makes the movie look like an amateurish attempt in filmmaking.Read full review1.5
Taran Adarsh | Bollywood Hungama
On the whole, HUM TUM SHABANA is a good idea gone wrong! It has a funny first half, but a disappointing second hour.Read full review1.0
Pratim D. Gupta | The Telegraph
Riding on the bank-breaking collections of the Golmaal films, farce seems to be the new formula in Bollywood. But, loud and crass, Hum Tum Shabana is asinine to the point of repulsion. If you were one of those unfortunate few to have trudged to the cinemas to catch a show of Hum Tum Shabana this Friday, your festive weekend must have got off to anything but the ideal start.Read full review1.0
Shubha Shetty-Saha | Mid-Day
Perhaps the worst movie I've watched in a while, this one actually managed to disconnect me from the goings on. So much so, after a point, it didn't matter where the script was going! Did I say script? Sorry this script is an insult to the term. Not a single dialogue made me even smile, forget the chuckles and guffaws that a comedy is ideally supposed to induce.Read full review0.5
Aniruddha Guha | DNA India
There’s no better way to say this: Hum Tum Shabana is the worst film you’ll have watched this year. This list includes Game and Teen Thay Bhai, although it’s unlikely you’ll have watched either. This one’s in the Tees Maar Khan-No Problem league. Only worse. Yes, it’s possible. HTS goes one up on most bad films you’ll have watched lately.Read full review0.5
Preeti Arora | rediff.com
Just as a novice chef believes combining certain expensive ingredients will result in a flawless dish, Sagar Ballary works with a similar belief. There's a beauty contest, a funeral, kidnappings, diamond smuggling, and the obligatory songs shot in a '70s type of discotheque. And at the end of it, it can't even be called a half-baked dish. A mishmash is probably the most appropriate description.Read full review0.5
Shubhra Gupta | Indian Express
What do you do with a film which is purportedly a comedy and delivers not one single laugh? This thought struggled to come to the fore, but the poor thing never had a chance, given the relentless awfulness of ‘Hum Tum Aur Shabana’.Read full review0.5
Suparna Sharma | The Asian Age
TUSSHAR KAPOOR, Shreyas Talpade and Minissha Lamba exhibit the acting skills of stick cartoons, but even those characters have a soul. The blame for their lame act has to be shared by the writer (Farhajaan Sheikh) and director Sagar Ballary. Given their idea of characters, story and what makes a comedy, both should be kept away from actors and cameras for three years. Yet there's one image from Hum Tum Shabana that will forever remain embedded in my brain: Minissha Lamba’s lips. Ms Lamba and her lips probably arrive on the sets in separate cars and are then attached to each other.Read full review0.5
Shubhra Gupta | Indian Express
I wanted to stay till the bitter end to see just what could be worse than awful, but I turned chicken. Running away is often the only way to survive.Read full reviewNR
Komal Nahta | Koimoi
Hum Tum Shabana review by Komal Nahta Biz rating: 1/5 star. What’s Good: A few comic scenes; sequences of one-up...Read full review