Critics Review
3.50
Laugh-riot
CHASHME BADDOOR encompasses the spirit of the original, but has been customised to entice the present-day spectators. An entertainer with dollops of humour and wild situations thrown in.(more)
Source: Taran Adarsh, Bollywood Hungama
3.50
It retains the original's madness, masti and movie-mania
star remains the story, spicily modernized, yet its salt still that passion for filmi fun, rainy moments, shared chattris, judwaa bhais, overpowering(more)
Source: Srijana Mitra Das , Times Of India
2.50
Does'nt works!
Dhawan appears conflicted between taking the characters on a journey of his making, and sticking to the blueprint of the original film.(more)
Source: Rajeev Masand, CNN-IBN
2.50
The gags are simply not funny enough even if you are game to grant the licence of brainlessness
Dhawan reorients Paranjpye's middle-of-the-road idiom to suit his brand of slapstick. The package is deceptively trendy - obviously to woo the urban youth - but you do not miss the filmmaker's well-known slant at pleasing the masses all along. (more)
Source: VINAYAK CHAKRAVORTY, India Today
3.50
Dum hai, Boss
Dhawan's film doesn't take the characters' contemporary courtship games into areas that would offend the moralists. He knows where to stop. (more)
Source: IANS, Deccan Herald