Kaanchi (U/A)
25/Apr/2014 151minutes

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Subhash Ghai's film makes you cringe and laugh at the same time

Back in the 1980s and 1990s, Subhash Ghai's films would guarantee a huge opening. They would be quintessential masala potboilers, high on Indian values, where the heroine would be the pure virginal beauty and the hero would be a dutiful son or someone wronged by the society. The film would have some...(more)

Source: Shomini Sen,, IBN Live

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Kaanchi lacks Subhash Ghai's magical touch

Till 15 years back, Subhash Ghai was called the showman of Bollywood, a title that was once associated with Raj Kapoor. He did justice to it with blockbusters like Karz, Hero, Ram Lakhan, Saudagar, Khalnayak, Pardes and Taal. (more)

Source: parmita uniyal, Hindustan Times

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This is Subhash Ghai mining his usual patriotic �this is my India� self

A fiery young girl from the hills takes up cudgels on behalf of her people and fights off the bad guys. This is the burden of Subhash Ghai�s new film, and he tells it in the same manner that made his films so watchable in the �80s, and so outdated in 2014.(more)

Source: Shubhra Gupta , Indian Express

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Kaanchi, he too is obsessed with keeping his town in the hills safe

Kaanchi (Mishti Mukherjee) is a virginal beauty from Koshampa in Uttaranchal who gets into brawls with the local bullies. And yet, there is an innocence about her that is alluring. We're told that her late father, an army man, is whom she has got her spirited nature from. Of course, her homemaker m...(more)

Source: Meena Iyer, Times Of India

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Subhash Ghai lacks showmanship

`Kaanchi` does not work on any front. Watch the movie at your own risk. But spare a thought for Ghai - it breaks your heart to see a showman fail to produce a good show.(more)

Source: Aparna Mudi, Zee News