TrueHello Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

Kaydan Christian A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

Matylda Swan It is a whirlwind of delight --- attractive actors, stunning couture, spectacular sets and outrageous parties.

Mandeep Tyson The acting in this movie is really good.

saish746 7 Khoon Guilty"I will kill him and drink his blood," - declares Priyanka Chopra for her 7th Husband.and you pity on the thriller , so dark yet uninteresting that Vishal Bhardwaj can be termed Guilty. Adaptation from Ruskin Bond's short story was a brave attempt by VB, However I wish he should stick to William Shakespeare for his inspiration.The movie opens with a flashback and then goes on in a very straight boring way. The thrill is never chilling, nor the murders. All the husbands were turned into some sort of caricatures before 'Piggy' chops them. Loose story and screenplay ruined the dark shadows and camera. The makeup tried to cover-up the patches of VB's venture but it all ended in a long 2 and half hours of movie which drags. Weak characterization of Two male helps and one Maggie aunty proved the weak story . VB forgets to add the real police with law and order in place. Instead he sends an officer with sexual appetite boiled by blue popping pills. Other husbands like the one legged major with a gallantry award was another caricature played well by Neil. Followed by a bulging John, whose love story was never explained. Neither was the drug abuse. Irrfan khan was another disappointment, its good to know that he is buried in snow now. The Russian double agent was another hard hitter without a cause although Naseer had one. He failed too as he portrayed a Bengali Mushroomist. The only artist which impressed me was Vivan Shah. He got his bloody talent from papa Naseeruddin Khan and was flawless with his love for his Shahib. He was patient , smooth and perfect. This adult story had his teenage platonic love angles.The music was of course good. VB kept the tempo and some faith through his music. Like always supported by none other than the legendary Gulzar. Songs like "Tere Liye" and "Bekaran" were very poetic and the best among the lot. So was the two rock numbers. Daarrling was a peppy, saucy foot thumping ballet, just like another 'Dhan te nan'. The chronology of Indian events were kept and excelled along with Priyanka's aging skin. I can forgive Priyanka but not VB. Thank God, her last husband was already dead. We were saved by another caricature.

SMcritic Every once in a while one comes across a movie where everything seems to be perfect yet the final outcome doesn't come through as it should. Saat Khoon Maaf falls under that category..good techniques , haunting ambiance , good cinematography and excellent acting and yet the end result leaves you wanting for something better.By now everyone knows that the movie is about the character Sussana killing her husbands. The biggest flaw for me was the way the character was portrayed. Some viewers enjoy having a detailed and concrete rationale behind why someone kills...but to me a psychological thriller has a heightened sense of unpredictability when there is no explanation provided as to why someone would kill...Agatha Christie had it , Hitchcock nailed it too.. ..Sussana kills because she kills - no reasons no justifications hence no predictability. This is where Bharadwaj goes wrong according to me. The movie gets bogged down by routine and predictability...By the third murder you know how it goes and even where it goes. Bharadwaj also provides a half baked explanation of the character which doesn't make much sense. Why did she not leave any of her husbands when she had the chance to? Because she keeps snakes as her pets? Because she kills stray dogs? Because her staff has a macabre and lopsided sense of justice ?Really? Dark visuals and moments will just go this far...then the storyline and execution has to take over...I felt nothing for Sussana - neither scared, nor sympathetic nor annoyed.. Priyanka Chopra did her best in whatever the director asked her to do but somewhere it did not quite work out...The same with the other characters in the movie...Neil Nitin Mukesh had the most chilling effect of all and he did excellent justice to the role..John Abraham was a surprise too...But in the end I was expecting something that never came....

bobbysing Frankly speaking before watching 7 KHOON MAAF, a viewer already knows that in this film a woman is shown killing her seven husbands in different ways for some diverse reasons in her whole life span. And after watching it you still know the same and nothing new. The film starts off as a true artistic kind of project but just keeps on showing Priyanka murdering her 7 husbands one by one and nothing else. Moreover while watching her murdering them all, one neither feels the pain of loneliness felt by the lady deep inside nor one feels sorry for any of the husbands being killed by their respective turns.So if you are expecting to see an exciting thriller, a tense murder mystery, an investigative crime drama or a painful saga of a lonely lady, then I would clearly like to state that it is not even close to any of these. In specific words, after viewing it, I neither had any feeling of hatred towards the killer lady nor any kind of sympathetic emotion felt towards her lonely character in search of True Love. The director just keeps on showing the lady killing all her husbands with the help of her three domestic helps as if there is no LAW anywhere and its very easy to kill anyone just like that. There are no serious investigations undertaken anywhere in the film about all these murders and the Police is also shown in a very hilarious manner investigating the murder of even a distinguished Foreign National in a very disgraceful manner.After a long time I found Vishal Bhardwaj coming up with a very questionable and weak kind of script, having so many loose ends right from its start. Post intermission it raises even more unanswered question till its climax and the ending leaves you with a strange kind of feeling of reaching no- where.Taking the additional responsibility of MUSIC, Vishal also doesn't deliver a Winner soundtrack this time. It has only few good tracks including the now famous Indianised version of the Russian song "Kalinka" called "Darling" sung skillfully by the great Usha Uthap, who also features in the movie in a short role. Out of the rest I liked "Bekaraan" sung soulfully by Vishal Bhardwaj himself. And as usual the director uses his two mediums of Cinematography and Background Music in the film as a master film-maker.The biggest disappointment in the film with the title 7 KHOON MAAF is that out of its 7 featured husbands only 2 are able to generate a feeble kind of impact and that too doesn't stay with you for long with the continuous introduction of the new ones down the storyline. From the entire bunch of husbands the best one remains Anu Kapoor,one of the most under-rated actors of our Hindi Film Industry, followed by the internationally famous Irrfan Khan in his own unique style. From the rest Neil Nitin Mukesh and John Abraham are good but the remaining fail to make any kind of impact on the viewer including Naseeruddin Shah. Vivaan Shah (Naseer's real life son), who plays the narrator of the story is very promising and Konkana Sen Sharma in a short role is sweet. But I really loved watching Usha Uthap in a smart cameo of Priyanka's house help who goes on to sacrifices her life for her lady master. Being the leading lady of the project, Priyanka Chopra gives another shining performance of her career portraying the life of a lonely lady from her twenties to the late sixties. However I seriously feel that she surely could have won more hearts all over, if only the movie was made more entertaining and engrossing for the common man. Still, taking things with a positive attitude, a film from Vishal Bhardwaj can never be a complete washout since the director does give you few worth watching moments in his film at regular intervals.So, even if I didn't like the movie which was way below my expectations from the director and his team, I would surely like to mention here some great cinematic factors, not to be missed while watching it.1. Just watch out the way Vishal, tells you the time and year of each story, with the help of some T.V. shots, news clipping and people reading news papers with some clearly readable headlines.2. The director is a real pro when it comes to shooting some bold bed room scenes with his leading actors. From this particular point of view the film is at par with any International reputed project of a renowned festival director from any part of the world.3. Though I personally didn't enjoy it, but I sincerely appreciate Vishal Bhardwaj's continuous and intentional effort of making movies inspired from the rich literature waiting to be explored by anyone. This is his second film based on a Ruskin Bond story (first was "The Blue Umbrella) with the title 'Susanna's Seven Husbands'. And as an honorary gesture, Vishal also has given a brief role to the writer in the film itself. So just see if you can recognize him when he comes on the screen.Summing up, I would only like to say that for few great art movie lovers or festival movies hunters, 7 KHOON MAAF may be an outstanding venture in some cinematic sense of their own. But from a common man or a normal movie-buff's point of view the film can also be called as boring, uninteresting and unentertaining all together. So I would not be able to rate it high due to the above factors.

M MALIK starting Priyanka Chopra as Susana in 7 khoon maaf its is based on Ruskin Bonds novel susanas 7 husbands. .i saw a user posted here in Disscussion boards that some novels should never be adapted to movie & its true.this film is not that confusing but it lacks something in between.the director did his best but fails to create magic . . the actors & the whole team put hard work it this for me its not satisfying. scenes like a rockstar husband & a Muslim husband who rapes forces his own wife for sex,i mean dudes are you joking here..& what was the genere of this movie hmm comedy/thriller or horrible . tries to show too much art & detail to the viewer but its long & very slow.make yo go crazy & feel sorry for the actors. the music is average.only watch it for priyanka,john abraham,irrfan khan .my rating is 3/10