Phonearl Good start, but then it gets ruined

FuzzyTagz If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

Invaderbank The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

Nayan Gough A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

atul-singhal1280 Excellent script with fantastic acting and direction. Must watch to feel Banaras and feel India Through the movie through the music . Raanjhanaa is a movie that can we watched again and again. Great efforts by Anand L Ray, Himanshu Sharma, Dbanush, Sonam, Abhay Deol, Swara Bhaskar and Moh. Ayub. Jio Murari... :)

Jyotirath Mitra This is a kind of movie which promises to deliver but unfortunately failed to deliver.If the good points are considered at first,then it must be Dhanush and the plot of the movie.Baring the little and blunt narration Dhanush was superb with his acting followed by good support from Sonam Kapoor and Abhay Deol.The plot was powerful but somehow I felt that it was not presented well.The first half was wacky while the second half had much to deliver.Again there were scenes which we had to accept but they were actually very incomplete.Hence a lot of questions were left behind in our minds.Kundan eloped with Zoya from hospital..But How?We don't know..Jasjeet died..But How?We again don't know.We are simply introduced to the mourning ceremony of a man who was on his way to recovery the previous moment.Yet there were certain twists and turns which kept us guessing.Apart from all this,the script is quite different from the love stories we usually see.Direction was not that good either,that's why ended up in a haphazard and clumsy movie.Thumbs up for the music.Good work from A.R Rahman. I don't know how people were overwhelmed seeing this movie.Hence, I expected much more but was disappointed.To me its just an above average entertainer. Watch it for Dhanush and an unusual plot.Forget the rest of it.

Anand Mishra There was a time in 1959 when Satyajit Ray showed us Banaras in the second installment of The Apu Trilogy,Aparajito.That Banaras was black and white and he had only shown us the temples.Back then he won our hearts despite these limitations.But here in 2013 Anand L Rai showed Banaras which is so colorful,apparently it makes you feel that Holi isn't far away.He showed the streets of Banaras so efficiently and enthusiastically which became the first highlight of the movie.Raanjhanaa is a cracker of a movie as it moves until the curse of second half comes into being.If so many movies have been the victim of this curse,why don't the theatre owners dumps the concept of giving intervals then?.These movies names should have been XYZ-good and XYZ-bad for each half.The same concept should also go fro Director's name for the two halves respectively.Raanjhanaa works in most of the parts acting,music and dialogs.The national award winning actor yet again proves that good looks and 8 packs don't make you a good actor,your hard work and talent does.Dhanush's so-simple-yet-elegant performance is pitch perfect for the character Kundan.The simplicity in his accent and his expressions in certain scenes adds a new dimension to the movie.He keeps the movie going but the character of Zoya(Sonam Kapoor) may not get digested by many of the audiences.Sometimes Zoya shows simple,want-to-love,knows her boundaries type of characteristics and sometimes Zoya is trying to be over smart,want everyone's attention on her.As you have read you certainly get to know that these characteristics cannot belong to the same character.People will get confused about what actually Zoya wants.Nevertheless Sonam has done a good job whatever she was given to do.Abhay Deol is good in his extended cameo and Zeeshan Ayyub is wonderful in his presence and exemplary with his one-liners.The dialogs by Himanshu Sharma is another highlight of the movie.There was a time when everyone said after A R Rahman's Jab tak Hai Jaan,which to me wasn't that bad, that the music maestro has lost his touch.Here A R Rahman adds emotions to the movies characters and creates the world of love very efficiently.If it weren't for his music Raanjhanaa wouldn't have been half of what it is.Javed Ali is so classical in Tum Tak ,Shreya Ghoshal providing soul to Banarasiya, Raanjhanaa(title track) is very lovable and Tu Mun Shudi is really appealing.Overall the music is really soothing. Kudos to the maestro for his hard work.If some more work had been done on the second half's script or adding some element to those politics portions in the script Raanjhanaa would have been a great movie.It just makes you feel dull whereas in the first half it is so much fun.Watch it for Dhanush,A R Rahman's Music,Dialogues and lastly Banaras.

ajitdubey I avoided this movie when it released because I was a writing a screenplay and backdrop of my story was Varanasi too and people told me till now no one has shown Banaras as it has been portrayed in this movie. Yesterday I watched this movie on it's TV premiere and i was spellbound, for a single second I could not find any actor Kundan (Dhanush), Zoya (Sonam, Bindiya (Swara Bhaskar) and Murari (Mohammed Zeeshan Ayyub) they looked like typical Banarasi and they took this movie to another level. Story is always a base of any film and this film delivers, except few scenes in second half you cannot pinpoint on anything, screenplay, dialogues, acting, excellent. one-liner was highlight of this film and most of them you can find in the gallis of Banaras. If Dhanush ruled the first half as innocent lover, Sonam Kapoor was awesome in second half. overall I will count this movie as one of the finest work of Hindi Cinema. Hats off to it's Director Mr. Anand Rai, I give it 9 out of 10 for a complete film.