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Critics Review
3.50
Chef Review
The film takes you on a fun-filled road trip with food and family as the focus. There are few dramatic confrontations but Ritesh Shah's dialogues are smart and witty. The pace though is a bit slow; the feeling is similar to the one where you are sitting famished at the lunch table and the order arrives after a part of your hunger has dissipated.(more)
Source: Meena Iyar, Times Of India
1.50
Saif's flimsy but occasionally sweet film takes the chefing out of Favreau's Chef
Saif Ali Khan, who I believe is one of Hindi cinema's most underrated actors, needs to choose better. It does not speak well of Menon's latest screen offering, that I felt the need to compensate for the deep dissatisfaction I felt after watching it by coming home and watching an entire episode of Masterchef Australia. To see Gary rustle up a simple plate of roast chicken with pea custard and fondant potatoes was a yummilicous and sensual experience. That's what Chef should have been but is not.(more)
Source: Anna MM Vetticad, Firstpost.com
2.50
Saif Ali Khan's film is no foodgasm
Raja Krishna Menon whips up no gourmet meal. Watch it, if you will, for the genuinely enjoyable father-son angle.(more)
Source: Samrudhi Ghosh, India Today
2.00
Saif Ali Khan's Film Is Flavourless And Forgettable
The film shows us a lot of food being prepared but holds no culinary insight or genuinely exciting artistry, and while surrounded by all manner of intriguing Kerala food, the dish Kalra chooses to make and market is basically potatoes/keema stuffed, with cheese, in a couple of rotis. They call it Rotzza, and the first syllable describes the appeal best.(more)
Source: Raja Sen, NDTV Movies
2.00
Saif Ali Khan film is a bland dish
Chef offers moments of brilliance which, if weaved in a more organised manner, may have given us a light, affable film. But a lazy and rather uninterested narrative takes away the pleasure.(more)
Source: Sweta Kaushal , Hindustan Times
2.00
Hungry for more
Chef is a food film. Food being a metaphor, a refuge, a calling, an inspiration and therapy here. In fact, it's a character unto itself but one which is not done full justice to. Like with its tone, emotions, characters and performances the film stays consciously aloof in handling food as well. Raja Krishna Menon does well in igniting the romance of local cuisine�from the idiappams in Kerala to chhole bhature in Delhi via the poi in Goa. But there could and should have been much more. Why does Khan have to keep cooking the same pasta and Rottza (roti+pizza) over and over again? Yes the film critics, used to their popcorn-samosa-cold drink, would crave for them anyhow. But some more enticing dishes, beyond the tamatar chutney, would have made this a more hearty meal. As things stand the two most delicious bits about Chef are the beautiful Fort Kochi and Milind Soman in a veshti.(more)
Source: NAMRATA JOSHI, The Hindu