Average Ratings:2.28/5
Score: 25% Positive
Reviews Counted:9
Positive:2
Neutral:2
Negative:5
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Ratings:— Review By:Komal Nahta Site:Zee ETC Bollywood Business
On the whole, Freaky Ali is a dull fare as it lacks novelty. Furthermore, the audience will feel alienated from the drama as it deals with the sport of golf, which is not at all a popular sport among the Indian masses. It will flop at the ticket windows.
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Ratings:3.5/5 Review By:Meena Iyer Site:Times of India
While the first hour of this film is time pass, the second half loses steam because of its repetitive narrative style. Also, you know at the start that this Ali is as strong as Mohammad Ali and will win all tournaments. The bit in the story about getting sport mixed with the anti-social elements is banal, but the film doesn’t take itself too seriously. So, you shouldn’t either. Watch it for Nawaz. Director Sohail Khan, who shares writing credits too, takes a lot of cinematic liberties. Even in a Utopian state, it is hard to digest street children running amuck golf greens. Or having goondas, double up as caddies. Like they say, this happens only in our desi cinema.
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Ratings:2/5 Review By:Sukanya Verma Site:Rediff
Although it takes obvious inspiration from Adam Sandlers Happy Gilmore, the pedestrian comedy sticks to worn-out Bollywood clich©s like Amitabh Bachchan-styled basti orphan praying out loud inside places of worship, a voluntary mother recalling Nirupa Roy, the duos textbook affection signifying religious secularism and, not to forget, reasserting the power of good luck charms — be it the trusty talisman or Freaky Alis mommy-knitted miracle sweater. It also aspires to channel the Munna-Circuit tapori camaraderie of Munnabhai MBBS except puffy hafta collector Arbaaz Khan proves to be a dour, drab sidekick.
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Ratings:2.5/5 Review By:Sarita Tanwar Site:DNA
The humor is what makes the first half of the film fairly engrossing. The second half, which mainly focuses on Alis journey towards winning the championship, is what makes the film dull. The irreverence goes completely missing and the film is burdened with clich©s of all kinds. The evil reigning champion, the portion about betrayal and the prayer son in the climax Freaky Ali falls exactly into the trap it was trying so hard to avoid
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Ratings:1.5/5 Review By:Shubhra Gupta Site:Indian Express
The first thing that strikes you when Freaky Ali begins is what an odd-bod collective this enterprise appears to be: to have Nawazuddin Siddiqui play the lead is a masterstroke, but to have Seema Biswas play his mother? Like, really?In addition, to see him command the screen in a solo turn is a delight : he is our first true subaltern `hero who has moved from the fringes to claim the centre. If only this were a better film
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Ratings:2/5 Review By:Deepanjana Site:Hindustan times
The film tries to disguise its predictability with wordplay in the dialogue.Freaky Ali isnt a satisfying film by a long shot, and thats a terrible shame, given that the plot is good. Still, it elicits a few laughs and its heart is in the right place. Thank God for that at least.
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Ratings:2.5/5 Review By:Sreeju Site:Bollywood Life
While we all love Nawazuddin Siddiqui as a performer, its high time that he chooses his projects more carefully, since this is the third film of his this year, after Te3N and Raman Raghav 2.0, that has let us down. Freaky Ali has a few moments of comic mirth that will make you crack a smile, but the film, overall, sputters and drags all the way to the final hole.
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Ratings:2/5 Review By:Devarsi Ghosh Site:India Today
Nawaz, who is, frankly, at home playing similar characters in much grounded films with a different cinematic language, does everything possible to add juice to Ali, but Sohail Khan’s Freaky Ali, in itself, is so empty within, that it needed a star of much bigger, grander, and freakier charisma to elevate such sub-par material to enjoyable goofiness. In fact, Freaky Ali would have been perfect material for a young Govinda when he was delivering No.1s after No.1s in the ’90s.
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Ratings:— Review By:Manjari Site:Gulfnews
Freaky Ali could have been an €œalbatross€ but it turned out to be a €œduff€. You can gauge where most films are heading just ten minutes into them. If I wasnt there to review the film, thats how long I would have probably been in the theatre. Yet lets be fair the film is not a total €œshank€. Its really not worth paying money to watch Freaky Ali in the theatre. Wait for the world television premiere. And then too, watch only if you are a big fan of Siddiquis.
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