X: Past Is Present
20/Nov/2015 Thriller, Drama

2.00

�X�periment gone wrong!

11 directors telling 11 stories within a single framework hasn�t gone down as the best of ideas with each having their own prospective and messing up the movie badly. Editing is also not something I liked. The story gets so confusing that the audience actually starts to saturate and get really bored...(more)

Source: Divay Agarwal, MovieCrow

3.00

Exploring the twisted human psyche

The film is a take on the art of storytelling and filmmaking and how perspectives define the way we see things, and our assumption of them about being good or bad. Kishen, played by Rajat Kapoor, is a successful filmmaker who has had several women in his life and one fine night he realises how each...(more)

Source: Sweta Kaushal, Hindustan Times

2.00

Movie Review

A film is an amorphous mass and on that count this one doesn't deliver. Its scattered screenplay makes the subplots feel disjointed. The protagonist K is caricaturish - a restless artist stuck in a creative limbo, narrating his escapades (romantic liaisons and sexcapades).(more)

Source: Mohar Basu, Times Of India

3.00

X: Past Is Present for its delightful cheekiness.

With 11 different directors taking turns to narrate a single story about a man who survives a series of failed relationships � it delivers a m�lange of styles, genres and colour palettes. But one thing that X: Past Is Present certainly isn�t is incoherent. While drawing its appeal primarily from...(more)

Source: sai, NDTV Movies

2.50

A piece of kitsch with incidental joys and a lot to crib about

The set of directors comprises some of the most widely-revered critics in the country. And making an honest presentation of your Gonzo piece of filmmaking to an industry from which you've yourself demanded the highest standards of perfection, is like making a larger point about the art of filmmaking...(more)

Source: Sreehari Nair, Rediff.com