My Friend Pinto Movie Reviews

These are interesting times. Different voices. Newer faces. Still Bollywood. The material here may be a lot better than the movie. But it doesn’t quite disappoint you still. Which is great to know. And you should be good to go.

My Friend Pinto is one happy, no-frills film that’s sure to make you smile. As one of the characters rightly says, a smile is what we need the most sometimes. Recommended.

MY FRIEND PINTO is definitely a feel good movie. One, which an entire family can enjoy together.

Pinto ( Prateik Babbar) is from Goa. And the ways of Mumbai are unknown to him. First, he's out meeting his long lost buddy, Sameer, after a prolonged gap, hoping the latter is still the same, but in vain. Second he tries saving a street dog for a bunch of street kids ending up losing his wallet. Third, Vada Pao is something totally alien to his taste buds (and popping eyes). Now does this really make you laugh? Enter the sub plots. First a don who wants his boss killed

So what is it that actually tickles the funny bone in here? Definitely not Pinto’s slow and steady steps.

My Friend Pinto has a long way to go before he can befriend the audience.

The film could have been made into something relevant had it not focused on too many sub-plots. As far as comedy goes, the film lacks the punch. There’s nothing humorous about ‘My Friend Pinto’.

The simpleton, the country bumpkin; ingratiates, irritates, exasperates and is difficult to deal with. But he is blessed with a heart of gold. The miracle man will interact with you for a few minutes and your life will change forever. All the petty strife and rivalries which have so far populated your existence will suddenly cease to exist. The protagonist as a naïve charmer has become an often repeated theme largely due to the success of the Munnabhai series

While one debut director Nupur Ashtana made a commendable debut, the other one, Raaghav Dhar unfortunately doesn't impress much. At the outset My Friend Pinto seems like a good attempt, however, it actually ends up being rather pointless. Michael Pinto (Prateik) comes from an orphanage to Mumbai to spend a week with his childhood pal Sam (Arjun Mathur), before he becomes a priest. Sam is not very happy with Pinto's visit, because his domineering wife

A simpleton let loose in a big bad city is one of those eternal movie plots which keep raising its head every now and then. This is then, with Prateik as the bumbling, fresh-off- the-boat fellow from Goa, losing and finding himself on Mumbai streets on a New Year’s eve night. Pinto is so nice that even bad guys turn into marshmallows, and so naïvely invincible that nothing evil can happen to him. The only way this kind of film can work is if the director can weave

The trouble with `My Friend Pinto’ is that it takes so long to get to the point where it starts to feel like a film that you almost give up. Characters tumble about, minus direction.

Sanjay Leela Bhansali and UTV. Two names synonymous with qualitative films. Bhansali is a brilliant storyteller who has dealt with myriad subjects in his films. With MY FRIEND PINTO, directed by Raaghav Dar, Bhansali moves from dark and intense subjects to a light entertainer. But comedy is a tricky territory. It needs aptness, practice and of course, comic timing or else, the magic cannot be observed on screen. That's where MY FRIEND PINTO falters and falters badly

See this only if you are a Prateik Babbar fan. Else avoid.

My Friend Pinto review Biz rating: 1/5 star. What’s Good: The climax; Prateik’s performance. What’s Bad: Too...

‘My Friend Pinto’ is worth the smile it generates – but so much more seems to be left undone. The songs in the movie are great, the actors so perfectly sweet and the chaos all pervading. But as a whole – the movie gives nothing great to take home.

My Friend Pinto is a very complex script to write and an even more complex act to pull off on screen. Dar manages the chaos created by Michael Pinto’s misadventures across the celebratory streets of Mumbai with fluency and grace.