Album : Lootera
Tracks : 1
Rating : 7.5000
Released : 2013
Label : Unknown
Category : Hindi Movies
Lootera Movie Reviews (RECOMMENDED 71% )
Lootera is a terrific film to say the least. Vikramaditya Motwane has gotten almost everything right – the casting, the screenplay, the music, the sets, the production design, and the costume design. His assured direction made it all happen. Motwane is an auteur and he has the potential to end up as one of the greatest directors India has ever produced. Lootera is an intense love story that stays with you long after the film has been seen, and for that and that only it deserves huge credit.
Lootera Movie Reviews By Bollywood Hungama - Taran Adarsh
While Ranveer and Sonakshi anchor the movie with supreme performances, even the ones in supporting parts leave an ineradicable impact. Ranveer has been entrusted with a complicated character so early in his career. Besides playing an intense lover, he plays a reticent and brooding character, something he hasn't explored in his earlier films. And Ranveer makes the most of it by making the character come alive. The character has disconcerting shades and it is imperative that he uses his eyes to leave a mark, which he does so at a variety of stages. He's simply fantastic!
Lootera Movie Reviews By Rediff - Raja Sen
Either way, this is a film worth the grandest of larceny. Motwane's direction is so assured and confident that this scarcely feels like his second feature. The script is clearly one he believes in, and the film is resultantly free of false-notes. Even the few moments that feel like narrative missteps turn out to be masterstrokes. And, as exemplified by a breathtaking chase sequence that could result in any number of outcomes, Motwane sides with his story, not with any one of his characters.
Lootera Movie Reviews By The Times Of India - Meena Iyer
In his second outing, post-the critically acclaimed Udaan(2010), Motwane definitely shows an upward graph. He transports you to the '50s effortlessly with his vintage cars, opulent havelis, authentic costumes and terrific performances from his lead cast. Every frame is a picture postcard. Sonakshi, Barun Chanda and Ranveer need special mention. However, be suitably warned; the old-world aura and the languid pace are not for the young and restless.
Lootera Movie Reviews By NDTV Movies - Saibal Chatterjee
Lootera uses silence and stillness wonderfully well. In such moments of repose, one can hear footsteps on a hilly pathway or a piece of paper being crumpled, and that is such a rarity in a Hindi film.
Lootera Movie Reviews By Rediff - Aseem Chhabra
Motwane’s investment in the details -- the cars, the furniture and other artifacts in a Bengali landlord’s house, the costumes and the look of his characters becomes a part of his narrative. His players -- especially Sinha and Singh look like people from that era, very comfortable with their appearances and their surroundings.
Lootera Movie Reviews By Nowrunning - Mansha Rastogi
For long Sonakshi Sinha has been accused of taking up roles that of props in male oriented films and she shuts all her critics this time with stellar performance as she portrays a range of emotions effortlessly. Ranveer Singh too complements her well and gives laudable performance especially towards the climax of the film. You only wish he could deliver his dialogues with an open mouth for he mumbles most of the times.
Lootera Movie Reviews By Glamsham - Martin D'Souza
There's the young actor Vikrant Massey who is like a breath of fresh air. Barun Chanda, who plays Sonakshi Sinha's father, is regal in his disposition as a zamindar and fluent as a father who loves his daughter immensely. Even if you want to just see his performance, LOOTERA is worth it. Adil Hussain and debutante Shirin Guha both leave a lasting impression without being overbearing. Of course, there is Ranveer Singh who is a class act and Sonakshi Sinha, who is getting better with every outing.
Lootera Movie Reviews By Bollywood Life - Shweta Parande
The lead pair’s chemistry is unique in its love-hate nature. But one feels let down by the lack of more romance in the film. Pakhi must’ve felt the same way when Varun deserted her, maybe? Since Varun is not back for Pakhi, but just happens to be with her again, rekindling of passion probably takes time. Still, scenes like the one where Varun forces an injection down Pakhi – with orgasmic effect – turns out well and shows more chemistry between Ranveer and Sonakshi than their much publicised ‘intimate’ scene.
Lootera Movie Reviews By Koimoi - Mohar Basu
Lootera is one film that will overwhelm you. Vikramaditya Motwane has given a seraphic piece that glorifies cinema itself. The narrative is framed on a devastative tapestry and the film’s climax knots up calamitously that will keep one absorbed. Sonakshi Sinha’s smashing performance is first rate and the film’s tone and timber is scrumptious! I am going with 4/5 for Lootera! Films like these have the milieu of a classic that shall soar its way to glories!
Lootera Movie Reviews By Deccan Chronicle - Khalid Mohamed
Now, Motwane’s take seesaws between its several strengths and flaws. Clearly though, he hasn’t Bollywoodised the adaptation, constantly treading on the tightrope between the artistic and the commercial. In terms of sheer craftsmanship, the outcome is outstanding – particularly the choice of locations, costumes (but for the readers-don’t-digest kind of trendy footwear), the production design and above all, Mahendra J Shetty’s cinematography.
Lootera Movie Reviews By Indiaglitz - Vishal Verma
Beautifully written by Vikramaditya Motwane and Bhavani Iyer the movie moves like a poetry.. Vikramaditya Motwane as a director does an outstanding job by first impressing us with the eye, then entering into our minds till the first half... holding us by the throat in the second and finally entering into our heart by the ends reels.. the movie gets over on the screen but it we carry it in our hearts and we find layers in its due course... magic.
Lootera Movie Reviews By Zeenews - Ananya Bhattacharya
Sonakshi Sinha steps into the shoes of Pakhi and lets her character overpower everything else. Ranveer Singh leaves innumerable jaws down at the navel-level with his performance. Never for a moment does one feel that these are actors who are just about a handful films old in the industry. For both the leads, ‘Lootera’ is that life-defining watershed that every actor sees himself/herself achieve somewhere in the course of his/her journey to stardom.
Lootera Movie Reviews By DNA India - Sarita Tanwar
It is clear from the start that this film is the kind of romance that can't be rushed, and won't be rushed. Director Vikramaditya doesn't dazzle you with great dialogues or attempt to impress with fifties' nostalgia. He is content just telling the story and bringing his old world characters to life. Lootera has all the right rhythms and it moves along without losing its conviction, and casting it's hypnotic spell. Before you know it, you are part of this bygone era. It's a world where there is art and antiques, paintings and music, books and babus.
Lootera Movie Reviews By Indian Express - Shubhra Gupta
But I wish Singh had been freed up more. His slate is bland. Much of the first half of the film is too, being revved up by its background music. The good parts of the film can be divvied up between cinematograher Mahendra Shetty's wizardry with the camera, the terrific, spot-on Barun Chanda, and Sonakshi Sinha. She plays Pakhi with surety, even when her eyes are too heavily ringed denoting sickness, channeling her emotions without holding back, allowing herself to get ugly while weeping. She is the real looteri; her Lootera should have had more heft. So should have the film. It has left me with some indelible scenes which are sheer poetry, but this is one of those films that I wanted to like much more than I did.
Lootera Movie Reviews By Dailybhaskar - Mayank Shekhar
This mainstream movie similarly has a stellar soundtrack, of course. There are some soothing songs. But no one lip-syncs to them. They play as background score. This automatically reduces the film’s length by at least half hour flat. The camera often freezes moments rather than bombarding images at the speed of thought. All this allows the actors few crutches to rest their talents or lack thereof on. The audience is forced to stare at them pretty much throughout. They ought to perform and evoke emotions.
Lootera Movie Reviews By Economic Times - Gaurav Malani
The director clearly strikes the right chord with the audience and the sublime and surreal shade that he imparts to the story gives it a fairy-tale touch. The warmth he brings to the romance is directly proportional to the heavy snowfall in the midst of which the climax is set.
Lootera Movie Reviews By Mumbai Mirror - Karan Anshuman
Motwane has taken more than a cue from Sanjay Leela Bhansali, the extravagant director he's assisted for over half a decade, and has drawn from his sense of aesthetic in Lootera. This is a purposive choice for a director who has now shown commendable range considering his excellent first film Udaan, as raw an indie can get. And yet similarities between the two films abound. Poignant moments are created by simply not thrusting Bollywood methodology in the filmmaking. Note for example how plot is secondary, it's the characters we're made to invest in. We're sympathetic to their effort to evince their internal battles in words in actions, both that are often knowingly repetitive and yet not jarring.
Lootera Movie Reviews By Yahoo - Rummana Ahmed
It was a brave choice by Vikramaditya Motwane to cast Ranveer and Sonakshi in ‘Lootera’ considering how their previous choice of roles has been over-the-top entertainers. Adil Hussain is proving time and again that he is one of the most bankable character artistes that we have at the moment; he manages to make an impression even in a cameo. Divya Dutt, on the other hand, was completely wasted in a part that felt incomplete and not-quite-thought-through.
Lootera Movie Reviews By ApunKaChoice - Naresh Kumar Deoshi
Lootera works primarily because of the sterling performances by Sonakshi Sinha and Ranveer Singh. Sonakshi cruises her character curve from a chirpy, mildly-manipulative, madly-in-love girl to a devastated woman counting her last breaths, with a breathtaking conviction. Note her in the scene when a jilted Pakhi confronts Varun at his archeological site. Ranveer Singh, on his part, is mellowed almost to the point of sounding effeminate, and there’s as much unmistakable guile in his eye as honest love.
Lootera Movie Reviews By Filmfare - Rachit Gupta
There’s one minor rough edge though. The ending is a bit of a misfit. Revealing any details would be giving away spoilers but the final cut at the end leaves you with an unrequited set of emotions. The reality would be a lot more inconvenient.
