Ratings:2.5/5 Review By:Rajeev Masand Site:News18 

This film is like that pulpy bestseller thats hard to put down even though its predictable and offers nothing by way of insight or profound discovery. Its a guilty pleasure at best, provocative and titillating. But its also overlong and derivative, and gives one of our finest actors little room to do much more than repeat himself.My problem with this kind of film is the desensitizing effect it tends to have on us with regards to crime and killings. So many shootouts, such scant regard for consequence. Im going with two-and-a-half out of five for Babumoshai Bandookbaaz.

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Ratings:2/5 Review By:Anupama Chopra Site:Filmcompanion

Babumoshai Bandookbaaz strains to be steamy. The sex is sweaty and prolific. Its just not very interesting. Because there is just too much posturing and too much plot. Kushan seems overtly enamored by the world that he has created. The actual story only kicks in by the time we hit interval and the second half becomes a revenge saga with familiar beats. The nihilism and sameness is exhausting. Babumoshai Bandookbaaz has sparks of originality but they get buried in a convoluted story that is tired and tiring.

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Ratings:— Review By:Komal Nahta Site:Zee ETC Bollywood Business

On the whole, Babumoshai Bandookbaaz is a well-made film but because it lacks novelty and due to overcrowding of releases, its business will be below the mark. In fact, given its very poor initial, the film would entail substantial losses to its investors.

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Ratings:2/5 Review By:Shubhra Site:IndianExpress

Love and lust in the hinterlands of UP: weve seen this cocktail of violence and intrigue before in Vishal Bharadwaj and Anurag Kashyaps dark dramas. This latest iteration is peppered with interesting characters and moments, except you can never shake off the feeling of the film being atmospheric but much too familiar.

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Ratings:1/5 Review By:Prasanna Site:Rediff

The director makes vain efforts to weave a string of narratives and subplots into a meaningful and engaging whole. Instead, he haemorrhages the audience’s intelligence, and succeeds in killing the film. The film won’t be remembered for Nandy’s direction or Ghalib’s plot. Babumoshai Bandookbaaz will be remembered as Nawazuddin’s worst film yet.

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Ratings:1.5/5 Review By:Saibal Site:NDTV

As capricious as its unfounded title, Kushan Nandy’s rough-hewn hinterland noir Babumoshai Bandookbaaz is a roaring mess. It misfires on most counts.It whips up plenty of heat and dust and packs rustic romance, love, lust, betrayal, doses of black humour and a great deal of carnage into its tenuous two hours. The characters turn upon each other like hungry hounds baying for blood. Logic is torn to shreds in the bargain. Babumoshai Bandookbaaz, in the end, is a tumbledown see-saw that never heaves itself off the ground.

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Ratings:2.5/5 Review By:Rohit Site:Hindustan Times

But these moments cant take away your attention from the shallowness of the entire facade. Its a film pretending to be a stylishly raw gangster saga originated in the interiors of the Hindi heartland, but in reality, its nothing more than another attempt to look at the crime prone lower strata of society through a rose tinted glass. Sadly, Babumoshai Bandookbaaz never pierces our hearts.

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Ratings:2/5 Review By:Hungama Site:BollywoodHungama

BABUMOSHAI BANDOOKBAAZ has some interesting, quirky moments in the first half but the problem is that it’s not put together well. Ghalib Asad Bhopalis story is ordinary and gives a deja vu of GANGS OF WASSEYPUR. Kushan Nandys direction is weak and it fails more due to faulty writing. On the whole, BABUMOSHAI BANDOOKBAAZ is a poor show owing to its incoherent script. At the box office, the film will have to depend on word of mouth to grow.

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Ratings:3/5 Review By:Meena Iyer Site:TimesofIndia

Be warned, this one belongs to the Gangs of Wasseypur genre where everyone is trigger-happy. Babu has been killing since the age of 10 when he first went hungry; Banke who admires Babu has always dreamt of being a professional killer. If you have feasted on cinema noir, this one serves up no surprises. The screenplay could have definitely been tighter. Yet Kushan Nandy gives you a film that you find yourself compulsively watching.

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Ratings:3.5/5 Review By:Sreeju Site:BollywoodLife

Be warned, this one belongs to the Gangs of Wasseypur genre where everyone is trigger-happy. Babu has been killing since the age of 10 when he first went hungry; Banke who admires Babu has always dreamt of being a professional killer. If you have feasted on cinema noir, this one serves up no surprises. The screenplay could have definitely been tighter. Yet Kushan Nandy gives you a film that you find yourself compulsively watching.

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Ratings:1.5/5 Review By:Umesh Site:Koimoi

This is poor mans Gangs Of Wasseypur & I would rather prefer watching a new episode of crime shows on television rather than investing my time on such film. Kushan Nandy drags the film on a one-line plot and fails to maintain the grip from the word go. Yes, it has some high moments but not enough to make the film close to like able. As Alfred Hitchcock once said, €œThere are three things needed to make a good film, script, script and script€ Unfortunately, Babumoshai Bandookbaaz doesnt has any one of them.

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