Satyagraha Movie Reviews
4.5
Srijana Mitra Das | Times of India
Showing true Satyagraha has no short-cuts, it also shows solutions glimmering ahead, as ephemeral, yet powerful as a rainbow cleansing the dust.Read full review4.0
IANS | India Today
“Satygraha” conveys the uncontrollable anger and energy of a nation on the brink. For telling it like it is and for creating a compelling film out of the raw material of present-day corruption, the film deserves a standing ovation.Read full review4.0
Taran Adarsh | Bollywood Hungama
SATYAGRAHA is an all-engrossing, compelling drama that mirrors the reality around us. In fact, it’s yet another brilliant addition to Prakash Jha’s credible repertoire, who has created some of the most politically momentous motion pictures. For the splendid drama and the electrifying dramatic highs, I suggest you must watch this hard-hitting fare. Absolutely recommended!Read full review3.5
Siddhi Palande | BookMyShow
With the fire of the Mumbai rape case still burning within, another example as to how crumbled our law & order is, the release of the film......Read full review3.0
Rummana Ahmed | Yahoo! India
Prakash Jha’s films tend to be didactic but the unnecessary inclusion of a romantic track just dilutes the essence of the film instead of providing some much-needed respite. The director needs to realize that playing to the gallery isn’t always possible. ‘Satyagraha’ is well intentioned but the effect remains superfluous.Read full review3.0
Martin D'Souza | Glamsham
While the movie does invoke in you some feelings, you do feel cheated that it does not attempt to answer the bigger question.Read full review2.5
Mohar Basu | Koimoi
Satyagraha Movie Review | Rating: 2.5 Stars | Prakash Jha's Satyagraha is an altruistic film with a clearly positi...Read full review2.5
Anupama Chopra | TheFrontRow
If good intentions were enough to make good movies, Satyagraha would be a masterpiece. Prakash Jha is one of the few directors in Bollywood who has consistently championed political cinema. His rage at the rotten state of the system has simmered through his movies for nearly three decades. But from the National Award-winning Damul in 1984 to Satyagraha, his stories have become increasingly simplistic, star-driven and heavy-handed.Read full review2.5
Saibal Chatterjee | NDTV
Parts of Satyagraha make perfect sense but, on the whole, it never comes close to clicking into top gear. It leaves you more disappointed than angry.Read full review2.5
Sachin Chatte | The Navhind Times
Getting out of the hole that you dig can become very difficult when you mix real life events and fiction and the film flounders in the climax. While there are a few poignant points and moments on the face of it but if you dig deeper there are plenty of flaws in the screenplay.Read full review2.5
Nabanita Maji | OneIndia
Satyagraha is neither compelling, nor gripping. Unlike Jha’s other hard-hitting political dramas, this one is too light and monotonous. The movie goes on and on with a poor script, at times testing your patience. Nothing can spare you in Satyagraha, until it concludes and you get a breather finally!Read full review2.5
Karan Anshuman | Mumbai Mirror
Satyagraha solely documents and offers fleeting wisdom. It succeeds at highlighting the problem but fails at achieving poignancy.Read full review2.0
Rajeev Masand | IBNLive
It may be coming from a good place, but it doesn’t know where it’s going.Read full review2.0
Khalid Mohamed | Deccan Chronicle
Without a doubt, Prakash Jha — a perennial political complaint box — offers nothing new either by way of content or style. How you’d like insights and information, from him, which you don’t know already. That would amount to excellent cinema, and not just one more star-fuelled trip into a political void. Suggestion: avoid.Read full review2.0
Shubha Shetty-Saha | Mid Day
More whimpering than a roar, this movie unfortunately induced yawns instead of any feeling of rebellion.Read full review2.0
FOI Crew | Films Of India
Though Prakash Jha has his heart in the right place when it comes to politically-themed films, it’s not enough to reward this Satyagraha with anything but 2 stars.Read full review1.5
Shubhra Gupta | Indian Express
…the end is chaos, very far from the non-violent satyagrah that the film propounds: gun-toting hooligans and cops run around the town, ending predictably in noble deaths and lectures on morality and goodness.Read full review1.0
Prasanna Zore | Rediff
Producer-director Prakash Jha has his heart in the right place as he once again chooses a topic — in this film’s case corruption — that is singeing the country more than anything else today but delivers a potion that is but a terrible hodgepodge of Arakshan, Rajneeti and Gangaajal.Read full reviewNR
Sneha May Francis | Emirates247
Unfortunately, Jha’s revolution this time round ends up unforgivably long, inadequately scripted and way too superficial to merit applause. Yes, there are moments of optimism, but those are far too few to evoke any real passion.Read full reviewNR
Piyasree Dasgupta | Firstpost
Satyagraha is an exercise in extreme self obsession. Because Prakash Jha just doesn’t want the film to end! It goes on and on till you start hallucinating Ajay Devgn’s moustache as a sinister, blood sucking alien and Amitabh Bachchan starts looking like a mummified pharaoh.Read full reviewNR
Komal Nahta | Komal Nahta
Satyagraha is an average fare but its business at the box-office will be below average due to the below-the-mark start and lack of universal support, especially lack of youth support. Although it is contemporary and entertaining in parts and also has an emotional under-current, its convenient screenplay and too idealistic characters would mar its box-office prospects by limiting its appeal. Business in big centres and multiplexes will be better than that in smaller centres and single-screen cinemas.Read full review
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