SpuffyWeb Sadly Over-hyped

Limerculer A waste of 90 minutes of my life

Voxitype Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

Janae Milner Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

namashi_1 Back To The Future, anyone? Remember how magically that Cult-Classic took us & its lovable protagonist ahead & back in time, only to be delighted with pure cinematic thrill! Director Nitya Mehra makes a similar, albeit limping effort with her well-budgeted feature 'Baar Baar Dekho'. While interesting in parts & made with honesty, the Writing & the Pace are erratic. Lets Continue....'Baar Baar Dekho is about A maths professor (Sidharth Malhotra), who is taken back & ahead of time, when he backs out of marrying his lady-love (Katrina Kaif). What follows is flashbacks & flash forwards! 'Baar Baar Dekho' begins with genuine promise. The opening credits, which show us how the man & woman met, right from kids to now, is beautifully done. And the pace is decently maintained for sometime, but post-interval, the pace drops. What starts off as an interesting time-travel love-story, suddenly turns into a melodramatic tale, with lesser feeling. And by the time we reach its culmination, we're tired. The Protagonist isn't too bright to begin with, despite being a maths professor, who worships Vedic Mathematics. It literally takes him decades (although days for him), to realize the value of life & his woman. Though at first his unsure nature & his amusement to the unexpected time-travel happenings appear believable, but later-on, he just doesn't seem to get the point & loses our support. Its a rather under-written role, that demanded more depth. Nitya Mehra's Screenplay is a mixed bag. At times, interesting, and at times, dull. The Writing doesn't make solid use of its fascinating concept & that's disheartening. There was genuine potential here. Mehra's Direction is good, though. She knows the craft of filmmaking well, but as a Writer, she lets herself & us, down after a point. Ravi K. Chandran's Cinematography is marvelous. Amitabh Shukla's Editing needed to be sharper. The film is a bit too long at a 140-minutes! Music by Various Artists is fantastic & the high-point of the enterprise. Art & Costume Design are well-done, while the Make-Up appears fake.Performance-Wise: Sidharth Malhotra is limited to a few expressions & hence his performance here, is nothing extraordinary. Though very sincere, the actor stumbles in some portions, especially when he ages old. Katrina Kaif looks gorgeous as always & is passable in her part. Rajit Kapur, Ram Kapoor, Sarika & The Wonderful Sayani Gupta, are given too little to do.On the whole, 'Baar Baar Dekho' is thoroughly watchable, but that's about it.

rockk93 This movie is a great example of a nice premise, a reasonably well written original script that fell in the hands of ordinary directors and screenwriters who added tonnes of clichéd moments stemming from lack of imagination and originality. Setting a movie in the future is new for India and they had the chance of showcasing something interesting to people, yet the final product, while has novelty, is so frustratingly silly, it becomes extremely tiring towards the end. Sidharth, while fervent, looks unconvincing in his old age avatars, so does Katrina. The background score is all over the place, traversing through every musical zone possible, and ending up as a soulless mashup of scores taken from multiple movies. The film could've had a unique and path breaking identity, yet it wasted a good premise. I'm controlling the urge to give it a way lower rating than it actually deserves. A solid 4 out of 10. Original idea executed by unoriginal people.

Anukool WoW! This is it! A fresh Love Story flavored with other genres to give a new blended flick. A thumbs up to Dharma Productions for bringing something different from the leek. So starting with the review about Movie : Baar Baar Dekho is a Rom-com with sci-fi and time travel as the toppings over it. Simple love story between Katrina and Siddharth, which have different expectations from their life and how they compromise. Coming to acting : Sid did a great job by portraying different parts of himself. His performance was indeed appealing. Katrina also acted well, but her size zero was not at all delight to eyes. her flaunting of abs was a disgust. Coming to songs : This movie has got all the catchy and beautiful songs. Shot at the exotic locations. Kala Chashma was the USP of the movie, along with Sau Aasman, Nach dene Saare, Kho Gaye Hum Kaha and Khair Mangdi. Each and every song was perfectly shot and well synchronized. Beautiful playback voices with great lyrics made all this possible. Songs wont go out of your mind for few days. Coming to Direction : KJo's prod house made very well efforts to give you the glimpse of the future in present. The technology presented in the movie,take us to the upcoming time and make us think that this is going to come in near 20 years and how we will deal with it. All our life will turn up to materialistic is the bitter truth presented.Movie gives you 3 takeaways- 1. Live every second of your life now, and right now, nobody know about future. 2. Life always gives you a second chance, utilize it well if unable to do in 1st. 3.Give priority to your family before job, job will end at age of 60, but family won't!So this was it, you will feel the same too after watching the movie which gives this teaching in a entertaining way! Happy watching!

bhattaswagato I went to watch the movies with my wife .We loved it. It was touching, comedy, and emotional. It has a message that is worth remembering. It is not the big things, but the emotional small things.. being there for each other that matters the most. We, guys, forget our life and chase life. When it is too late, do we get another chance? We can all relate somewhat with the movie. I enjoyed it a lot. If you have the time, do watch it. It will not be disappointing. Actress Katrina beautifully portrayed her role. I liked the jokes too. What was missing was more showing of the future. And, we would have loved to see how the actress fell in love again with another men. That seemed like enough to feel repulsed.