Ugly Movie Reviews


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3.7
Verdict: Super Hit based on 22 reviews
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2.3
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  • Sweta Kaushal

    5.0

    Sweta Kaushal | Hindustan Times

    Watch the movie for brilliance and for its simple, touching and mind-blowing messaage. Watch it for Ronit Roy, Rahul Bhatt and Vineet Kumar Singh. Do not watch the film if you do not like being subjected to the dark and intense feelings of guilt, realisation and loss. Skip the movie if blood and shootouts is all you want to see in an Anurag Kashyap venture.
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  • Raja Sen

    4.5

    Raja Sen | Rediff

    Ugly is a tale of torment, masterfully woven around the universally urgent trigger of a disappearing minor — and yet where, in the larger scheme of things, that kidnapping itself becomes, I daresay, a minor detail. Genius.
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  • Martin D'Souza

    4.5

    Martin D'Souza | Glamsham

    UGLY is fast-paced and stays true to its genre. If only Kashyap had got the timing of his release right!
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  • Prathna Tiwari

    4.5

    Prathna Tiwari | Bollyspice

    Ugly is not your cheerful holiday movie but the kind of film that must be seen. Its serves as a brutal mirror to society and is likely to do more so for parents. It will act as a wake up call and stir up realisations that perhaps you’ve been ignoring. Not everyone has a taste for an Anurag Kashyap film but if there is one Anurag Kashyap film you’re to watch, it should be Ugly.
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  • Prateek Sur

    4.5

    Prateek Sur | Bollywood Life

    I went to watch this film not having much expectations from it, but Anurag Kashyap won me over with his storytelling and direction. If you are a lover of good cinema and if you can handle dark, raw truths of the society, then this is a must watch. It is worth every penny spent!
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  • Shomini Sen

    4.0

    Shomini Sen | IBNLive

    Anurag Kashyap’s ‘Ugly’ with make you laugh at some of the irrelevance, it will make you cringe at the blood and gore, it will leave you disturbed even but more importantly it will make you think. And that’s why you should watch it.
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  • Kaushani Banerjee

    4.0

    Kaushani Banerjee | Deccan Chronicle

    ‘Ugly’ takes steep turns that will leave you confused as to who to root for in the end. The ending is a haunting final shot, which pummels the moral centre of the movie. The film begins and ends with intentional violence which simply accentuates the ugliness instead of serving as a shock-value.
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  • Surabhi Redkar

    4.0

    Surabhi Redkar | Koimoi

    Ugly is a mean, dark and unsettling film that will rip you off in its last scene. This film is for the strong-hearted. It is honest, bare and raw in all its sense. As disgusting as the characters are, you want to watch this film for their diverse personalities and just to see what goes on in warped brains that bring out the worst in them. I loved the film for its brave nature…
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  • Meena Iyer

    4.0

    Meena Iyer | Times of India

    While the pace does dip in the second half, what makes Ugly tick is the searing honesty with which it is told. It’s not for the faint-hearted, but for those who are willing to let the morally decrepit live.
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  • Rohit Khilnani

    4.0

    Rohit Khilnani | India Today

    It may not be the best film to watch around Christmas but it’s one hell of movie that shouldn’t be missed. Anurag Kashyap is at his best once again. Ugly is dark and hard-hitting like his critically acclaimed film Black Friday (2007).
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  • Subhash K Jha

    4.0

    Subhash K Jha | SKJBollywoodNews

    This is a thriller which leaves us with a sense of utter futility about the quality of life that we lead. Anurag Kashyap’s most incisive exploration of human relationships Ugly boasts of some of the most skilled performances in recent times, so skilled that they do not seem to be performances at all. These are actors who must be seen more often. Or their souls would be broken beyond repair… just like the characters that they play so well they don’t seem to be playing them at all.
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  • Meeta Kabra

    4.0

    Meeta Kabra | Wogma

    The film’s content is so unsettling that you wouldn’t want to watch it again, at the same time you feel like you haven’t grasped it all in the first go. It is long and does seem to stall at places, over and above the lingering that is likeable. As well-made as I find a depressing film that shows you reality, I was ready to be out of the theater. After all, it does go out of its way to prove how deeply immoral we are as a society and as humans and after a point I don’t want to be reminded that reality s***s. And at the same time, give me reality over gloss, any day!
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  • Prathamesh Jadhav

    4.0

    Prathamesh Jadhav | India

    With Ugly Anurag Kashyap shuttles bravely between intrigue and mystery. He puts forth an unabashed and yet a non-judgmental commentary on the dark ingredients that make our being. From betrayal to brutality and from lies to unsolicited liaisons, Ugly sheds light on the darkness that thrives in the city and perhaps in the heads of those who dwell it. Don’t miss this cinematic treat if you have both the stomach-and the palate-to digest this delicious story soaked in disturbing darkness.
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  • Bryan Durham

    4.0

    Bryan Durham | DNA India

    Do not miss this film. It may be all things dark and forbidding this festive season, but it is, with flaws and all, one of the best films you’ll watch this year.
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  • Sachin Chatte

    4.0

    Sachin Chatte | The Navhind Times

    Ugly is the work of a director who is on the top of his game.
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  • Daily Bhaskar

    3.5

    Daily Bhaskar | Daily Bhaskar

    Ugly is another masterpiece from the Anurag Kashyap’s closet. Ugly is special, and if you love Anurags earlier film, you will love this one too.
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  • Saibal Chatterjee

    3.0

    Saibal Chatterjee | NDTV

    This may not be Anurag Kashyap’s best film, but it is infinitely and indescribably better than all the muck that mainstream Bollywood passed off for entertainment this year.
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  • Shubha Shetty-Saha

    3.0

    Shubha Shetty-Saha | Mid Day

    …must say that this film manages to deeply disturb you, mildly depress you and tag along with you for a long time even after you come out of the theatre. That obviously is Kashyap’s intent.
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  • Rahul Desai

    3.0

    Rahul Desai | Mumbai Mirror

    This isn’t an easy film to watch, and not each of its 127 minutes is entirely purposeful. Everyone is an antagonist; there’s not a moment when they are not driven by oppression and greed.I disliked what I saw, and I dislike thinking or even writing about its familiar environment. And this vile aftertaste is perhaps Mr. Kashyap’s most significant achievement.
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  • Mayank Shekhar

    3.0

    Mayank Shekhar | The W14

    …the film itself, tightly put together, ideally watched without an interval, keeps you thoroughly engaged and almost at the edge of your seat until you get to that end. That’s fun enough. Would you even want to look back? I didn’t.
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  • Geeta Masurekar

    3.0

    Geeta Masurekar | BookMyShow

    There is something about Anurag Kashyap’s cinema that makes no attempt to soften reality. Ugly is a film about how we are forgetting the little things in pursuit of money, revenge and power.
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  • Sonia Chopra

    3.0

    Sonia Chopra | Sify

    Kashyap (Gangs of Wasseypur, Dev.D, Black Friday) gives us a film that represents a disturbing reflection of life. It’s a film where there are only villains in varying degrees and no heroes. It reminds you of his 2011 film ‘That Girl in Yellow Boots’.In the end, ‘Ugly’ is a fairly gripping film that’s also exhaustingly melancholic and cynical. After all, it does seem unreasonable to view the world only through smog-tinted glasses!
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  • Shubhra Gupta

    2.0

    Shubhra Gupta | Indian Express

    Parts of it grab you, especially the interplay between the deeply unhappy Tejaswini Kolhapure and the unsmilingly vicious Ronit Roy: I wanted to know more about these people, and what makes them tick. But the film backs off from them, and stays a zig-zag between being a police procedural and a human drama that wants your jugular.
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  • Bollywood Hungama News Network

    2.0

    Bollywood Hungama News Network | Bollywood Hungama

    …technically brilliant with some wonderful performances, UGLY strictly caters to a niche audience. Moreover the choice of releasing it during a festive period isn’t a great idea either. Watch it if you are an Anurag Kashyap fan, else avoid!
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  • Mihir Fadnavis

    NR

    Mihir Fadnavis | Firstpost

    You’ll probably be confused as to whom to root for by the end of the film, but the answer really is nobody. Kashyap never tries to make you sympathise with any of the characters, thereby making them more real. Human beings are terrible by default, and they would only do more terrible things to others to have their own way. So there’s no point of rendering a contrived ‘goodness’ to the central character, and Kashyap remains quite non-judgemental. The vast space between helplessness and desperation is morbidity, and Ugly lives in that world.
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  • Deepanjana Pal

    NR

    Deepanjana Pal | Firstpost

    Ugly is a disappointment, not just because it’s a whodunit that sinks like a badly-made souffle but also because we expect better and more of Kashyap. Of him, we expect more taut storytelling, greater sensitivity in characterisation, as well as more originality and insight.
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  • Shilpa Jamkhandikar

    NR

    Shilpa Jamkhandikar | Reuters

    “Ugly” is a disturbing film which will make you squirm in your seat. But if you don’t mind that, it is worth a watch.
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  • Anuj Kumar

    NR

    Anuj Kumar | The Hindu

    Anurag is so miserly with information that at one point you like to beseech him to part with more details but he is no mood to take a please-all route. Still all threads come together when they need to. Still it is Anurag’s least indulgent yet most visceral film. There is no escape from the ugliness that we and our films like to keep under wraps. Last week Hirani had hung a mirror in theatres, this week Anurag has put together few shards of glass. That was easier to face; this one will test the nerve.
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  • Suparno Sarkar

    NR

    Suparno Sarkar | FilmiBeat

    The characters in Ugly are ruthless, dark, desperate and dangerous, more to themselves than others. Anurag Kashyap’s Ugly is a thriller which leaves us with a sense of utter futility about the quality of life that we lead.
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  • Rachit Gupta

    NR

    Rachit Gupta | Filmfare

    The underlying sense of peril and the unrelenting tension grips you through a sweat breaking two hours. And when the climax of Ugly arrives you’re dealt a killer blow. It’s so dark and inconvenient that it’ll wrench your gut. And yet, it’s so simple that you’ll hate yourself for not guessing. More so, you’ll hate the characters for being so ignorant and misguided. Ugly is a film that draws the deepest and darkest behavior of men. This is how you make a great film.
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  • JPN

    NR

    JPN | Jagran

    ‘Ugly’ is a beautiful portrayal of the squalidity that swamps the human soul. The characters are ruthless, dark, desperate and dangerous, more to themselves than others.This is a thriller which leaves us with a sense of utter futility about the quality of life that we lead.
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  • IndiaTvNews Reviewer

    NR

    IndiaTvNews Reviewer | IndiaTvNews

    Ugly” is a beautiful portrayal of the squalidity that swamps the human soul. The characters are ruthless, dark, desperate and dangerous, more to themselves than others.This is a thriller which leaves us with a sense of utter futility about the quality of life that we lead.
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  • jyothimathur

    2.0

    My review of Ugly (2014) by bangreaayushi

    jyothimathur, 9 years ago
    Agreed completely ugly!The story of the film revolves around the life of a struggling actor, Rahul. Actually the crux of the story is Rahul’s missing daughter Kali. The story triggers the life of Rahul and his ex-wife, Shalini who got married to a police officer, Shoumik Bose(Ronit Roy). Rahul, Shalini and Shoumik are college buddies but due to few cracks in their relationships they start bitching each other. Now one day, Rahul and Shalini’s 10-year-old girl, Kali goes missing from the car. In all this, her mother is lost in the dark world of drugs and pills. Kali’s disappearance turns out to be havoc and this in turn creates complications in Shalini and Shoumik’s lives. Shoumik as a police cop investigates this case personally. The needle of doubt is pointed towards Rahul and Chaitany (Rahul’s friend). There is also Rakhee Malhotra (Surveen Chawla) and Siddhant (Siddhant Kapoor) who turns out to be the show stealers. Rakhee is a struggling actor and Siddhant is Shalini’s smuggler brother. The story has spectrum of sequences that make you feel what’s next. The film is highlighted with a good cinematography by the brilliant cinematographer Nikos Andritsakis who had worked in LOVE, SEX AND DHOKA. The film’s rocking sound track makes you feel as if you are in another world. The film’s capturing moment is the song ‘Papa’ sung by Shilpa Rao leaves you with moist eyes. Talking about Shalini’s character played by Tejaswini Kolhapure, she has kept those shades of acting alive even today. No doubt, Ronit Roy shines with his performance as a cop. But somewhere, Rahul Bhat failed to charm the audience with his work. Talking about Anurag Kashyap’s direction, it did not create that magical atmosphere as always expected. Watching the film just for the Anurag’s genre of disturb childhood, then this film will work for you. But in case you are watching the film to extract something from the concept, then do avoid because it won’t work for you. Somewhere the film’s bottom line shows you of the disturb routine life of a common man, woman and even kids, but that is not the only thing the audience can expect from the movie. If people are paying for the tickets, then there should be an effective outcome from the same. Well while leaving the theatres, audiences may feel few disturbing images from the movie, but that won’t affect you much if and only if you are Anurag Kashyap’s true fan. Surveen Chawla holds your attention throughout the film. She is deeply in her character. Script is good but somewhere it doesn’t satisfy you upto that extend. The film could have been much better if Anurag Khasyap’s direction would have kept the audiences glued to their screens. The set created gives you the true feeling of something extra-ordinary taking place. Music composers have worked hard to give you a very soggy feeling.
  • adnannadkar98

    3.0

    My review of Ugly (2014) by Adnan

    adnannadkar98, 9 years ago
    Nice Movie....!!!!With A gr8 Story....!!!!!!!
  • Patil

    2.0

    My review of Ugly (2014) by Patil

    Patil, 9 years ago
    Hope, This will not spoil my hope.........

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