WasAnnon Slow pace in the most part of the movie.

Stevecorp Don't listen to the negative reviews

CommentsXp Best movie ever!

Matrixiole Simple and well acted, it has tension enough to knot the stomach.

gautam-moharil This movie could have been a commentary on rape victims and justice in India. But they turned it into a cheap revenge thriller badly executed. The last movie of Sridevi was probably her worst.

contesindiens "Mom", from the author and screenwriter Girish Kohli, is a Hindi film subtly made with nuanced lightings of shades by Ravi Udyawar, his first cinematographic achievement, but why Mom? While the first subject is rape, worse, a rape gang committed on an 18-year-old girl by four young men. The victim, Arya, exceptionally incarnated by the Pakistani actress: Sajal Ali who is actually 23 years old shines "black" on the screen. Her character undoubtedly puts them on the accused bench unfortunately of a lax and partial justice . Therefore, for this heavy and irreparable tribe caused to her daughter-in-law, Arya, "Mom" - Devki, played excellently by Sridevi (300 films in all until now !), will make herself a justiciary for love for her who nevertheless excecures her to its paroxysm. An ordinary professor of biology (Sridevi) will implement her thirst for justice without intending to kill or almost? A consciousness that she tries to awaken to the rapists with regard to what a mother is capable when someone calls "Mom" for help ... Her co-stars: Sajal Ali, Akshaye Khanna, Adnan Siddiqui and Nawazuddin Siddiqui are each in their key role, incredible with a touching psychological personality for the viewer. The important thing in this film is not really how Devki (Sridevi) takes revenge on this "unfair justice" by foiling, in addition, the police investigation. Confident, She benefits the help and human understanding from the people around her. She first turns to the hijras community (the third sex) who are their students, among ohers, then Detective DK (Nawazuddin Siddiqui), compassionate and revolted by the verdicts of rape in India, and finally Matthew Francis (Akshaye Khanna), anchored in his faith, in the film, he signs himself ...Matthew understands how to release the evils and heal the indelible wounds even if Devki loses faith and deferred to her mother's instinct while her husband, Anand (Adnan Siddiqui), keeps it in adversity. Ravi Udyawar makes our imagination work in raw scenes such as rape, the prison environment or a painting by Draupadi such as the epic of the violent and deadly Mahabharata. Nothing spares us, like the enchanting and spicy music of Allah Rakha Rahman melodically black in this particular context. A must see! For an informed public, for all the political, educational and police institutions of India or not, before being ourselves confronted with an ultimatum: to choose between the bad and the worst by listening to what our conscience dictates to us in the absence of a transparent justice . I congratulate in passing the audacity of Boney Kapoor for having produced this film with Zee Studios. It should be noted that Boney Kapoor had produced the excellent film about a controversial subject: "Matrubhoomi: A Nation Without Women" by Manish Jha in 2003.

Krishna Sundar A fantastic movie played by Sridevi (Devki). Devki is a teacher in a school and has 2 kids of which the elder daughter, Sajal Ali (Arya), is her step-daughter. When Arya goes out to a far away farm house for valentine day's party, she gets kidnapped, physically abused and thrown away in a ditch. Devki complaints to police and when someone finds her daughter the next day, they inform the police and they inform Devki.Devki and her husband are completely shattered and they file a case in the court. Due to lack of evidence, and the bad guys' alibi they wont be able to get justice. Devki takes law in her hands and executes immaculate plan and takes down each one of them.**Spoiler Alert**In this, Nawazuddin Siddiqui (DK), who plays a private detective, helps Devki in collecting information on each of the bad guys. He eventually gets killed by one of the bad guys.Akshaye Khanna (Mathew Francis) plays the lead detective and will find out what Devki is doing but will be unable to collect any evidence. But he helps her at the end to kill the last bad guy.

Jay Mehta Mom impresses with a good story and strong performances of Sridevi and Nawazuddin. Although what didn't impress was the reinforcement of some of the wrong beliefs prevalent on why rapes happen and the unnecessary melodrama in some situations.Story (8/10): Mom is about a mother's fight against her daughter's rapists when the courts aren't able to provide her justice. Devki (Sridevi) is a high school teacher who is the second wife to Anand (Adnan Siddiqui) and have two daughters with elder one Arya (Sajal Ali). Arya is never able to give Devki a motherly respect but it's Devki who stands up for her step daughter after a horrifying night that ended in Arya found dropped in a gutter after being gang raped. While she is totally flustered and overwhelmed by the gravity of the situation, she sheds all that to take law into her own hands after realizing that the justice was a distant possibility. The story is very well written, for the most part, it ended up propagating stereotypes about rapes in India like girls who party late night gets raped, girls who wear short clothes get raped, girls who drink are asking for it, rapes happen in India and not in Bharat etc etc. The writer could have used any other base to build the story. Having said that, the rest of the story is actually nicely written at a screenplay level in spite of a very predictable climax. Very well written thriller.Acting (9/10): The movie got some really good performances from Sridevi, Nawazuddin, and Sajal Ali. Sridevi has been amazing throughout the movie with highly intense performance. The trailer of the movie showed that it was all in all a Sridevi movie and the actual movie wasn't so different. Nawazuddin also makes his presence strongly felt – largely due to his avatar in the movie and the unique accent. Although the role is a little inferior to the actor of his caliber, he still gives much-required justice. Sajal Ali was great, especially in her scenes with Sridevi. Projecting a character of a physically abused person could be very difficult but her expressions and dialog delivery were pretty much spot on. Akshay Khanna probably had more screen time than Nawazuddin and a good character to play but still failed to create as much impact. Adnan Siddiqui had a very limited role – second fiddle to Sridevi – and did okay. The casting of the movie was good overall, except that none of the negative characters had any big names.Direction (8/10): Debutant director Ravi Udyawar did well to lift this movie even though he relied a lot on melodrama, overdone at some places. The pace of the movie is quite good – never dragged or gets boring, which is very important for a thriller. However, climax could have been conceptualized better and made more believable.Overall (8/10): Overall, it's a good movie to watch for great performances by Sridevi and Nawazuddin.