The Shaukeens Movie Reviews
Avg. Critics Rating
Verdict: Timepass based on 28 reviews
Avg. User Rating
2.5
Verdict: Timepass based on 99 reviews & ratings
4.0
Koel Purie | India Today
It’s been a while since I had an LOL moment in the cinema. Watching letchy comedy, The Shaukeens made me want to ROFL more than a few times.Read full review4.0
Subhash K Jha | SKJBollywoodNews
The Shaukeens is a rib-tickling rumbustious sleaze-less comedy that Basu Chatterjee is likely to smile at.It’s bound to make you laugh out loud . Unless you are Jackky Bhagnani.Read full review4.0
IndiaGlitz | India Glitz
…is unadulterated, breezy, quirky, facelift of the 1982 cult Basu Chatterjee’s classic ‘Shaukeen’. ‘The Shaukeens’ of Akshay Kumar (who spins a major hilarious surprise here), ‘Bollywood’ and ‘comedies’ will be continuously mingled with the giggles and laughter. Go laugh your heart out.Read full review3.5
Saurabh Dwivedi | India Today
Abhishek Sharma, who gave us the delightful Tere Bin Laden, does a great job with The Shukeens too. The film, despite its theme does not get crass or vulgar even once, which is why it will get a larger audience.Read full review3.5
Bollywood Hungama News Network | Bollywood Hungama
… a full on Bollywood entertainer that you wouldn’t want to miss.Read full review3.5
Tushar Joshi | Bollywood Life
Watch The Shaukeens if you want to see another side of Akshay Kumar and enjoy a few chuckles along the way. Also do watch out for funny cameos by Suniel Shetty, Dimple Kapadia, Abhishek Bachchan and Kareena Kapoor.Read full review3.0
Kusumita Das | Deccan Chronicle
With a catchy soundtrack, a steady supply of giggles, top-notch performances and an engaging script, Abhishek Sharma’s The Shaukeens is a worthy follow-up to his first film, the hilarious Tere Bin Laden. Watch it to get a taste of vintage Bollywood that’s not afraid to laugh at itself.Read full review
3.0
Madhureeta Mukherjee | Times of India
The terrific threesome play their parts with ease and Lisa adds oomph and colour to the ‘grey’ streaks. Some humour is forced; songs are shovelled in, and the climax lasts way beyond the orgasm! A tad more comical chemistry between the trio would made this a far more entertaining fare.Read full review3.0
Shubha Shetty-Saha | Mid Day
With the story of three lecherous old men, the movie had every possible chance of crossing the line and becoming tacky and vulgar — and sure enough at some points it does too — but thankfully, director Abhishek Sharma and writer Tigmanshu Dhulia don’t allow the thin line between funny and smutty to be blurred too often. The end result? A fairly enjoyable film.Read full review3.0
Daily Bhaskar | Daily Bhaskar
If you are an Akshay Kumar fan, than this movie will definitely be a paisa wasool for you. The film shows good comedy by veterans like Anupam Kher, Annu Kapoor and Piyush Mishra who have for the first time come together on-screen. Also missing three old men running after a hot chick is something you would not want to miss.Read full review3.0
Ritika Handoo | Zee News
We can say that, the young will love it while the old will think about getting, ‘Shaukeen’ (pun intended)!Read full review3.0
IndiaTvNews Reviewer | IndiaTvNews
The fantasy for beautiful ladies never fades it doesn’t matter how old one man grows. The Shaukeens displays the unending fantasy of the male fraternity in a light-hearted manner which is self-deprecating.Read full review2.5
Samiya Dinware | BookMyShow
The Shaukeens is light-hearted comedy with some really good humorous scenes that will tickle your funny bones. Overall, the film leaves a pleasant feeling and is stress-busting. So go along with your family and friends and enjoy this hilarious caper this weekend.Read full review2.5
Sonia Chopra | Sify
In the end, director Abhishek Sharma (Tere Bin Laden) gives us a fast food version of what was a very charming and humorous film. Go for it if you have the stomach!Read full review2.0
Rajeev Masand | IBNLive
There are the odd moments of inspired humor – all crude – between the three senior actors, but for the most part they’re wasted.Read full review
2.0
Anupama Chopra | Hindustan Times
The Shaukeens improves substantially in the second half when it becomes more about Akshay and less about the buddies. In fact Akshay earns the film an extra star.Read full review2.0
Sukanya Verma | Rediff
Whenever Akshay appears on screen, The Shaukeens transforms into another movie — one that’s substantially more comic, cheeky and winsome — it’s the one I enjoyed the most, it’s the one I wished I had come to see.Read full review2.0
Noyon Jyoti Parasara | NowRunning
Willing to ignore the crassness and take the film for the genre is actually belongs, you might actually find enough laughs.Read full review2.0
Manjusha Radhakrishnan | Gulf News
A tedious film, watch if you are a fan of Akshay Kumar and can turn a blind eye to blatant objectification of womenRead full review2.0
Nandhini Srinivasan | FilmiBeat
The Shaukeens is fun to watch only if you leave behind the logic and turn a blind eye to many bad things that’s been portrayed about women!Read full review2.0
Lokesh Dharmani | Masala
So if you don’t mind three aged men with high libido and low underwear blatantly hitting on a girl who is oblivious to good touch bad touch (Lagta hain madam ne Satyamev Jayate nahi dekha!), then The Shaukeens might work for you. Watch it only if you are a die-hard Akshay Kumar fan.Read full review2.0
Sachin Chatte | The Navhind Times
Director Abhishek Sharma gave is the entertaining Tere Bin Laden, but sadly The Shaukeens is nowhere close to it. Inspired by Basu Chatterjee’s Shaukeen (1982) this film loses steam very quickly. The rehashed plot where Akshay Kumar plays himself is funny in parts but eventually ends up going nowhere.Read full review1.5
Sweta Kaushal | Hindustan Times
Watch it only if you are an Akshay fan. He’s does not have a screen space of more 20 minutes in this 124-minute-long movie but when he is there, he makes his presence felt.Read full review
1.5
Mohar Basu | Koimoi
The Shaukeens is a lame, dunce, dis-satisfactory and a stupid film at its core that is so tedious and flat that you almost abhor your time at the cinema. If you can tolerate 30 minutes of Akshay Kumar making fun of himself and his colleagues by making funny faces, you can take a trip for this. But for me, it was a disappointing story of how we lost an intelligent filmmaker to fat paychecks from fancy production houses. There can’t be a better reason why someone as intelligent as Abhishek created something so glaikit.Read full review1.5
Saibal Chatterjee | NDTV
The leading lady of The Shaukeens ditches her boyfriend because, in her words, “he made fun of my creation and called it stupid and obnoxious”. That is it: those are the very adjectives that would best describe this unfunny, eminently avoidable film.Read full review
1.5
Shubhra Gupta | Indian Express
Three dirty old men `leching’ at a pretty young thing is what ‘The Shaukeens’ sets out to show. If it had stuck to its guns, made its threesome more interesting, and the girl less ditsy, this remake of Basu Chatterjee’s ‘Shaukeen’ (1982), would have done its job.Read full review
1.5
Rummana Ahmed | Yahoo
It’s a shame that film after film reeks of uninspired writing and lazy filmmaking. Are we really this bereft of ideas that we can’t even replicate the success of a film that once worked?Read full review
1.0
Rohit Khilnani | India Today
This film has no soul and no character. It’s time waste, paisa waste!Read full review
1.0
Martin D'Souza | Glamsham
Bollywood is getting unapologetic. That’s fine. But what is a worrying factor is the ‘care-a-damn’ attitude that comes with it. The paying public cannot be taken to be such idiotic fools that they will digest any trash dished out in the name of film-making.Read full review0.5
Meeta Kabra | Wogma
I don’t really have much more to say about this one except that I had to keep comparisons with my all-time worst film ever, *Buddha Mar Gaya * at bay. And it wasn’t the easiest task to do that.Read full review
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Devesh Sharma | Filmfare
Shaukeen is a lopsided effort – some scenes leave you cringing while others have you rolling on the floor with laughter. A little more quality control would have given us a far better film…Read full reviewNR
Sneha May Francis | Emirates247
Given the number of remakes being churned out in Bollywood, it comes as a pleasant surprise to see one-movie-old Abhishek Sharma turn a 1980-hit adult comedy into something wickedly funny without ever reducing into a sleaze fest.Read full reviewNR
JPN | Jagran
Cameos by Abhishek Bachchan, Kareena Kapoor Khan, Dimple Kapadia, Suniel Shetty are few other highlights of the film. The camaraderie between the 3 seasoned actors makes the film a must watch!Read full reviewNR
Komal Nahta | Komal Nahta's Blog
The Shaukeens falls short of expectations as the subject had far more potential. It is not half as funny and entertaining as the story promises and it will, therefore, not be able to prove its worth at the box-office. Losing.Read full review
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Shilpa Jamkhandikar | Reuters
If only Kumar were the main plot. When the movie returns to the randy old scarecrows, it feels like an anti-climax and just one more hackneyed, derivative film in a Bollywood library that’s already brimming with them. That said, if eye candy is your thing and you want two Yo Yo Honey Singh songs in your soundtrack instead of just one, you could do worse than “The Shaukeens.”Read full review
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4.0
My review of The Shaukeens (2014) by bangreaayushi
jyothimathur, 9 years agoGood!The producers of the film Shaukeen, Murad Khetani and Ashwin Varde were sure that the movie will go quite long. But unfortunately, it doesn’t have that potential to climb the ladders of success. The film ‘SHAUKEEEN’ of 80s made a very strong impact on the minds of the users. But somewhere this movie left people with up surd imaginations. Let’s see what the movie had in its store. Following the same plot of 80s, this film is about the journey of three men who take a roller coaster ride to add some fun elements to their missing lives. The story starts with Laali aka Lalchand (Anupam Kher), who is a shop owner. He is a family man but his wife has taken 'Sanyash' from this world so, he had to sacrifice all his sexual life. Then there is an evergreen KD (Annu Kapoor) who is a bachelor and who is not happy with his life and finally there is a third one Pinky (Piyush Mishra), who is a widower and who is trying to find out love after the death of his beloved. The three after making many plans decide to take a trip to Mauritius. There they rent a room and take shelter in a place belonging to Aahana (Lisa). She is a young and a free bird that is sexy and beautiful. So, all three of them decide to woo this girl in their own ways. Aahana is not aware of their evil plans and she shares her life with them. Then she even undergoes a breakup and decides to end her life by committing suicide. But her plan fails when she sees Aksahy Kumar. Now it is after this, the three men decide to woo her by promising her to fix an appointment with Akshay Kumar. What happens next is rest of the story. The film manages to keep you entertained till the end. Hilarious jokes and a mix of adult comedy is what this movie has preserved for you. The film is a perfect amalgamation of good punch lines, which hold your attention till the end. The film’s first half is little bit boring whereas the second half is entertaining and quite promising. What adds more in the film are the power packed acting and melodrams from all the three men. These three don’t let you escape your mind from the story. The film has also worked on taking special care of the body languages of all the three men. Lisa is very beautiful to watch. She makes you happy and sad at times. Akshay Kumar is icing on the cake who gives you smile on your faces. The film has magical moments all packed together in a single box. Songs are good and they keep you entertained throughout the film. Yes, the editing of the film could have been even much better; here this element is missing from the film.
