Once Upon Ay Time In Mumbai Dobaara! Movie Reviews


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  • Madhureeta Mukherjee

    3.5

    Madhureeta Mukherjee | Times of India

    In OUATIMD, a love triangle forms the bloodline of the story, replete with ‘donnisms’, molls with maal and an overkill of ‘loaded’ dialogues pe dialogues.
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  • Anupama Chopra

    3.0

    Anupama Chopra | Hindustan Times

    The beauty is that underneath the swagger, Akshay also locates the loneliness and heartache of a monster hobbled by love. Honestly, I can’t remember the last time I enjoyed watching him this much.
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  • Sarita Tanwar

    3.0

    Sarita Tanwar | DNA

    The novel thing about the screenplay is that neither Shoaib nor Aslam are ready to sacrifice their love for each other. The film steers clear of the romantic clichés of self-sacrifice.
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  • Siddhi Palande

    3.0

    Siddhi Palande | BookMyShow

    Although a big star cast film yet it is likely to come out as an ordinary story with a tight script.
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  • Karan Anshuman

    2.5

    Karan Anshuman | Mumbai Mirror

    The Milan Luthria/Rajat Arora director-writer combo is back; this time with an even more baffling titled film: Once Upon Ay Time in Mumbai Dobaara. Stare at that for a moment and see if it makes sense on its own and then in context with the film. If it ain't broken, don't fix it. This mantra is entirely understandable from a producer's point-ofview, but one wonders how many identical looking films can a creative mind keep cranking out. Unlike in Hollywood
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  • Saibal Chatterjee

    2.5

    Saibal Chatterjee | NDTV Movies

    It has enough going for it – a no-nonsense script, a clipped pace, punchy dialogues and spiffy cinematography – to justify its 160-minute runtime. Yet Once Upon Ay Time in Mumbai Dobaara! falls well short of being quite as engaging as the film that it is a sequel to. The reason is pretty obvious: the characters that Ajay Devgn and Emraan Hashmi fleshed out in Once Upon A Time in Mumbaai were infinitely more complex and nuanced
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  • Saibal Chatterjee

    2.5

    Saibal Chatterjee | NDTV

    It has enough going for it – a no-nonsense script, a clipped pace, punchy dialogues and spiffy cinematography – to justify its 160-minure runtime. Yet Once Upon Ay Time in Mumbai Dobaara! falls well short of being quite as engaging as the film that it is a sequel to.
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  • Taran Adarsh

    2.5

    Taran Adarsh | Bollywood Hungama

    On the whole, ONCE UPON AY TIME IN MUMBAI DOBAARA! has a powerful second half and the drama/conflict helps the film regain ground, after a shaky first hour. However, the fact cannot be denied that ONCE UPON AY TIME IN MUMBAI DOBAARA! pales in comparison to its prequel.
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  • Rummana Ahmed

    2.5

    Rummana Ahmed | Yahoo! India

    Milan Luthria has potential and he has proved this before. It is frustrating that Luthria who usually knows the pulse of his audience, seems to have just wasted this opportunity. I can’t think of one memorable moment from the film. It’s glitzy and glamorous but lacks the character of the first part.
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  • Khalid Mohamed

    2.0

    Khalid Mohamed | Deccan Chronicle

    Designed as a take on a love story between a real-life don, a real-life starlet and a real-life kabab mein haddi, the outcome is as remote from reality as Earth is from Venus and Mars.
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  • Raja Sen

    2.0

    Raja Sen | Rediff

    The film is constantly predictable — just like the first film in the series — but leans too heavily on a very hackneyed romantic angle. It isn’t often one gets to say this about a Bollywood actioner, but a few more gunshots could have been nice. Kumar more than makes up for the lack of Devgn, but despite having a similar first name, Imran really can’t match up to Emraan.
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  • Sachin Chatte

    2.0

    Sachin Chatte | The Navhind Times

    The previous film had a decent story and captured the essence of that period but this one just gives a sense of déjà vu. Similar characters and some very heavy duty dialogues don’t help the cause but more over, it is the insipid story that is a let down.
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  • Shubha Shetty-Saha

    2.0

    Shubha Shetty-Saha | Mid Day

    Akshay playing an unapologetically bad man sounds like a fantastic idea, only if there was better direction and a script to back it. What a waste.
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  • Gayatri Sankar

    2.0

    Gayatri Sankar | Zee News

    ‘Once Upon Ay Time In Mumbaai Dobaara’ is nothing but an out and out Akshay Kumar film with nothing more to offer.
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  • Vishal Verma

    2.0

    Vishal Verma | India Glitz

    Apart from Akshay Kumar’s dashing looks and performance Once Upon Ay Time In Mumbai Dobaara has nothing to boost on its own as a sequel.. it’s an uninspired, boring and highly disappointing sequel you’ll ever see. Or not see, if you’re lucky. If you love the first film, seriously, do not see this one. You’ll ruin two movies at once.
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  • Martin D'Souza

    1.5

    Martin D'Souza | Glamsham

    Akshay Kumar as an underworld Don, Shoaib, is having a dhamaal time; A flashback in Mumbai and then somewhere in the middle-east. His well-gelled hair, parted at the side, dark sunglasses and well-cut suits which are 'close-fit' (the suits in the era shown, were loose and long) are carried off well. He modulates his voice a bit to a drawl, dragging his sentences to inject imminent fear. He also fixes cricket matches; the umpires wait for him
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  • Shubhra Gupta

    1.5

    Shubhra Gupta | Indian Express

    What did you expect from the sequel of Once Upon A Time In Mumbaai which came out in 2010? Given that its director and writer are the same, I knew that the clunkily-titled-and-spelt Once Upon Ay Time in Mumbai Dobaara! would tread the same territory: gangsters- muscle-flexing-in-Mumbai-which-used-to-be-Bombay, non-stop rat-a-tat of '70s style dialogue-baazi, loud background music, and a plot riddled with predictabilities from
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  • Rajeev Masand

    1.5

    Rajeev Masand | IBNLive

    The film does have a few strong bits, including an inspired cameo by Sonali Bendre, and a clever scene in which Shoaib walks into a police station intending to surrender himself. But these are small mercies in a major misfire as this. Too long at over 150 minutes, and way too predictable to ever surprise you, Once Upon Ay Time in Mumbai Dobaara is the equivalent of getting a root canal. I’m going with one-and-a-half out of five. Call me cynical, call me a spoilt-sport, but don’t call me if they decide to make Once Upon A Time in Mumbai 3!
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  • Shubhra Gupta

    1.5

    Shubhra Gupta | Indian Express

    What I wasn’t prepared for was just how similar it would be, despite the change in leads , and after a point, just how listless it would turn out to be.
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  • Mayank Shekhar

    1.0

    Mayank Shekhar | The W14

    Walk very gently into this film, if you must. There is enough plywood used for the sets and so much plastic around for performances that if you’re not careful, the whole picture might just collapse on your head.
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  • Mohar Basu

    NR

    Mohar Basu | Koimoi

    Once Upon A Time In Mumbaai Dobaara! | Movie Review | Rating: 2/5 Stars | Once Upon Ay Time in Mumbai Dobaara scre...
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  • Sahaja K R

    NR

    Sahaja K R | OneIndia

    Once again, director Milan Luthria impresses us with the set-up of the movie. The actors have given their best to fit into the 1980s of Bombay. In this scenario, everything is so filmy just like how it used to be back then. Once Upon A Time In Mumbaai Dobara makes gangsters the heroes and for once you don’t mind that. It is often said that for a movie to become a hit, you need five good dialogues and here you have plenty.
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  • Simantini Dey

    NR

    Simantini Dey | Firstpost

    If Chennai Express is a comedy for which you have to leave your brains outside the movie theatre, then OUATIMD is a drama for which you’re better off not venturing out of the house at all.
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  • devenpatel

    3.0

    OUATIMD:Not as impactful as the first part

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

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