BATLA HOUSE CAST:
John Abraham, Mrunal Thakur, Ravi Kishan,,Manish Chaudhari, Rajesh Sharma
Director: Nikhil Advani
Producer: Bhushan Kumar, Divya Khosla Kumar, Krishan Kumar, Monisha Advani, Madhu Bhojwani, John Abraham
Average Ratings:3/5
Score: 100% Positive
Reviews Counted:5
Positive:3
Neutral:2
Negative:0
BATLA HOUSE CRitics Review:
Ratings:.2.5/5 Review By: Saibal Site: NDTV
Batla House held together by a steady and solid star turn by John Abraham, leaves you with a feeling that it had the potential to be an absolute humdinger. But stray flashes apart, the dramatised true story drifts too far from the heart of the matter without delivering the expected drama. All said and done, the lead actor delivers, so his fans have no reason not to watch Batla House.
Ratings:.3.5/5 Review By: Rohit Vats Site: News18
Apart from a scene or two, in which Abraham plays to the gallery without any qualms, Batla House presents him as an able actor with good understanding of the milieu he is operating in. Just that, don’t look for legitimacy at every juncture.Batla House has ingredients to keep you engaged for more than 140 minutes, provided which side are you on—activists who still smell a foul play or police that claims to have not heard of anything substantial from Indian Mujahideen after that September encounter!
Ratings:.3.5/5 Review By: Sreeparna Site: Times Of India
Nikkhil Advani’s ‘Batla House’ attempts to balance out the narrative without taking any apparent sides. And yet packs in the right dose of patriotism with the story of an honest ACP at its center. Paced as a thriller, for most part the film stays true to the genre. Batla House plays out as a taut film with the tension entwined throughout, leaving you with knots in the stomach.The brilliantly choreographed action and chase sequences ensure several edge of the seat moments. Where Batla House falters is in the second half, when the proceedings slacken with the court room drama slowing it down further.
Ratings:.3/5 Review By: Kunal Guha Site: Mumbai Mirror
Inspired by the 2008 Batla House encounter, this Independence Day action-thriller delivers on various counts. It urges one to consider the precarious position that encounter cops often find themselves in — the absence of sufficient evidence to back an operation dubs them trigger-happy brutes, while inaction can have the barrel turned towards them. But the film’s biggest achievement is managing to get John Abraham to convey his conflicted character’s inner turmoil.
Ratings:2.5/5 Review By: Udita Site: Firstpost
Thumping background music accentuates drama, emotional angst and suspense. In true Bollywood style, a typical item number pops up as does a ballad. Yet Batla House feels burdened by its patriotic ambitions and by repetition (including numerous frames of police officers exchanging side-long glances). This pushes the running time to over 140 minutes, and comprises its core story with superfluous Bollywood-isation.Advani is most in form in the action scenes – shoot-outs and chase sequences — which is what one expects from the director of the finely made D-Day.
