No One Killed Jessica Movie Reviews


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  • Taran Adarsh

    4.0

    Taran Adarsh | bollywoodhungama.com

    Most storytellers entertain, a few enlighten. A scattering number of celluloid visionaries entertain as well as enlighten. Rajkumar Gupta fits into that exceptional variety of film-makers that opens up thought-processes about the condition of the homeland without losing the cinematic elements that constitute a film. To reconstruct on celluloid a true occurrence that is oven fresh in public reminiscence is not a trouble-free mission
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  • Aniruddha Guha

    4.0

    Aniruddha Guha | DNA India

    What a start to 2011! You couldn’t have asked for a film better than No One Killed Jessica (NOKJ) to kick off the year. Director Rajkumar Gupta narrates the true events following the murder of model Jessica Lall at a Delhi nightclub in 1999, and makes it a compelling, dramatic and moving experience. Fact, truly, is stranger than fiction. The incident has been the topic of much discussion in the past, and another Rajkumar — Santoshi — had touched upon it in his film
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  • Sarita Tanwar

    4.0

    Sarita Tanwar | Mid-Day

    No One Killed Jessica defines the larger purpose of cinema. It is proof that a relevant issue -- if portrayed cleverly on celluloid -- can be a statement of our times, while maintaining the entertainment quotient. No other Indian filmmaker has ever attempted to capture the story behind a high profile murder -- and it isn't a half-hearted, watered down tale based in a different city, in a different time zone and with different names. Even though there is a
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  • Nikhat Kazmi

    4.0

    Nikhat Kazmi | Times of India

    The film has an impeccable first half and could do with some editing in the second half. But the high drama, the arresting performances and the spunky audio track (Amit Trivedi) make NOKJ a memorable viewing.
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  • Taran Adarsh

    4.0

    Taran Adarsh | Bollywood Hungama

    On the whole, NO ONE KILLED JESSICA is a poignant story of two women’s resolve for justice. It’s a remarkable blend of facts and fiction inspired by a series of real-life episodes, which has thankfully not been presented as a tedious biography or in a mind-numbing docu-drama format. It’s more of an engaging thriller which has the right doses of histrionics, tautness, anguish and thrills. The emotional and disturbing journey, the strength of the common man and the relentless endeavor of the media have all been most compellingly put together on moving picture. In times of yore, a lot of films have been attempted on real-life incidents, but haven’t struck a chord so effectively. NO ONE KILLED JESSICA should shatter this jinx. This heroic and daring film truly deserves a prolonged applause.
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  • Zeenews Bureau

    4.0

    Zeenews Bureau | Zee News

    ‘No One Killed Jessica’ is a superbly written and well crafted piece of cinema.
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  • Savera R Someshwar

    3.5

    Savera R Someshwar | rediff.com

    Do you know the feeling when you taste a dish that should be brilliant but falls just short of the mark? Even as you dig into, and enjoy, each spoonful, there's this constant nagging thought at the back of your mind: 'What's missing?' That's the kind of feeling that stays with you when you finish watching director Raj Kumar Gupta's No One Killed Jessica. First off the bat, though, this is a good film, and one that will probably find its place among the best films
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  • Gaurav Malani

    3.5

    Gaurav Malani | Indiatimes

    A filthy-rich spoilt brat guns down a girl in full public view. His high-profile politician father uses all his influential power to subside the legal matter. Witnesses turn hostile in the court. Evidence is tampered. The murderer is acquitted. The petitioners turn helpless victims of the obdurate judicial system. How many times have you witnessed this story before in Hindi cinema? This plot has been a frequent fodder for masala movies in Bollywood since decades
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  • Shubhra Gupta

    3.5

    Shubhra Gupta | Indian Express

    How can you kill someone in front of 300 people and still get away? Director Rajkumar Gupta opens his film 'No One Killed Jessica', , with this basic question. In the next two and half hours the director dissects the events that led to the acquittal of the accused by the lower court and the subsequent retrial after an uproar in the media and public. However, Gupta's story is not a mere reconstruction of the events in the infamous murder case
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  • Steven Baker

    3.5

    Steven Baker | Bollyspice

    NOKJ achieves its aim of being something other than standard Hindi film fare. After a string of over-hyped and over-budget offerings from Bombay cinema in the final quarter of 2010, No One Killed Jessica is a welcome antidote, and it will be interesting to see what awaits this powerful film at the box office.
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  • Mayank Shekhar

    3.0

    Mayank Shekhar | Hindustan Times

    The lone investigating cop in this film could pass off for a deadly butcher himself. He certainly looks like one. He’s still the more honest of the lot of sharks around (mark the superlative, more). The forensic lab’s mysteriously swapped the bullets fired from a “22 bore Italian Baretta” at the scene of crime. This tampering of evidence makes the cop’s case fairly weak. The policeman’s pissed, frustrated. But he was admittedly the same guy
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  • Pratim D. Gupta

    3.0

    Pratim D. Gupta | The Telegraph

    No One Killed Jessica is an angry film. There is a cuss word in almost every dialogue. There are household items being pushed and pulverised in almost every scene. Whenever a finger goes up, it is almost always the middle finger. Even the candles at the India Gate vigil look like torches. That is purely the filmmaker’s perspective because in the opening disclaimer writer-director Raj Kumar Gupta makes it clear that his second film is
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  • Minty Tejpal

    3.0

    Minty Tejpal | Mumbai Mirror

    In a nation witness to senseless violence ever since its very inception, the Jessica Lal case has become a cause célèbre. There are many specific reasons for this. The very public nature of the shocking crime, the lack of any motive, the high society people involved, the naked subversion of justice, the public anger, the detailed sting investigation, the dramatic re-trial, and the eventual sentencing. Justice was served, and the underdog actually won
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  • Anupama Chopra

    3.0

    Anupama Chopra | NDTV Movies

    No One Killed Jessica is a dramatisation of the Jessica Lall murder in 1999 and the tumultuous events that followed including the botched up court case, the verdict, which allowed prime accused Manu Sharma to walk free and the ensuing public outcry, which eventually forced a retrial and a sentence of life imprisonment. The Jessica Lall murder was a watershed event and Gupta uses this rich material to create a film that is in places, powerful and moving
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  • Anupama Chopra

    3.0

    Anupama Chopra | NDTV

    No One Killed Jessica is several notches ahead of the tripe we’ve been subjected to in theatres lately.
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  • Shubhra Gupta

    3.0

    Shubhra Gupta | Indian Express

    ‘No One Killed Jessica’ manages to sustain interest as it makes itself way towards the climactic moment when the culprit, despite the best efforts of his politician father and his fawning courtiers, is nabbed.
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  • Renuka Rao

    3.0

    Renuka Rao | DNA India

    Watch No One Killed Jessica to see how well reality can be depicted on the big screen. Just don’t expect that on-screen reality to jolt you as much as the off-screen one did.
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  • Pankaj Sabnani

    3.0

    Pankaj Sabnani | Glamsham

    NO ONE KILLED JESSICA is a poignant drama that makes you think. It shows what people and media can do, even if means challenging the system and the judiciary. It surely does justice to the entire Jessica Lall case. Don’t miss it!
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  • Rajeev Masand

    2.5

    Rajeev Masand | ibnlive.com

    ’No One Killed Jessica’, directed by Rajkumar Gupta, is a loud, overdramatized account of the Jessica Lall murder in 1999 and the events that followed. Drama is inherent to this story, in which the prime accused was acquitted by the court for lack of evidence, then sentenced to life imprisonment when the case was reopened seven years later following a collective public outcry. Yet Gupta paints in broad strokes, delivering a simplistic
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  • Rajeev Masand

    2.5

    Rajeev Masand | IBNLive

    ’No One Killed Jessica’ isn’t a bad film; it’s just a disappointing one from a filmmaker who showed such promise with his debut film ‘Aamir’. This one falls short. I’m going with two-and-a-half out of five for director Rajkumar Gupta’s ‘No One Killed Jessica’. It reminded me of a Madhur Bhandarkar film. If you’re a fan of simplistic storytelling, you won’t complain.
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  • Komal Nahta

    NR

    Komal Nahta | Koimoi

    Watch it definitely! But it impresses more than it inspires.
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  • movielover4

    3.5

    For starters let’s go ahead with this one….

    movielover4, 9 years ago
    Super hit movie. I loved everything about this movie.
  • rajesh93

    4.0

    NO ONE KILLED JESSICA: EXPLOSIVE!

    rajesh93, 9 years ago
    Super hit movie. I loved everything about this movie.
  • kailashmisra

    4.0

    No One Killed Jessica - A Must Watch

    kailashmisra, 9 years ago
    Super hit movie. I loved everything about this movie.
  • hindicritic

    4.0

    Killer Instinct

    hindicritic, 9 years ago
    Super hit movie. I loved everything about this movie.
  • rajesh93

    3.0

    Fu**ing Explosive

    rajesh93, 9 years ago
    This is nice movie. I liked it.
  • filmifan45

    5.0

    amazing acting by Rani and Vidya

    filmifan45, 9 years ago
    This is one of best movie of all time.
  • jeevan789

    3.0

    amazing start of new year

    jeevan789, 9 years ago
    This is nice movie. I liked it.

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