Madras Cafe Reviews

For the most part, I enjoyed Madras Caf©.In trying to keep it fast-moving, the film turns choppy and confusing in parts. Also, a few of the characters are a tad comic book-y, matching the ludicrousness of some dialogues.

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At its running time of two hours, ten minutes, Shoojit Sircars Madras Cafe is a swift, smart and serious study of an inglorious chapter of political history. It doesnt take names but doesnt hold back either.

Watching Madras Cafe is both frustrating and satisfying. The thriller based against the backdrop of the Sri Lankan Civil War is, in equal parts, muddled and moving. There are sequences of power and eloquence.

Bottomline: Well-intentioned, but monotonous.

The film tells a story we already knew. Yet it scores because of the way Sircar maintains intrigue, teasing viewers with regular twists. Irresistible stuff if you love brain work in your movies.

Solidly directed by Sircar, who steers clear of typical Bollywood machismo and avoids oversimplifying characters or their motives, the film - at a little over two hours - is a compelling watch.

Solidly directed by Sircar, who steers clear of typical Bollywood machismo and avoids oversimplifying characters or their motives, the film at a little over two hours is a compelling watch.

Madras Cafe is a sinewy and riveting espionage thriller that entertains without having to play to the gallery.Madras Cafe stands apart from run-of-the-mill smack-downs because it does not celebrate vacuous militaristic machismo.

...undoubtedly makes for an engrossing watch, a little more attention to detail and the film would have been brilliant.

To put it plainly, Madras Cafe raises the bar for commercial Hindi cinema. Firstly, films that mix fiction and reality are an extreme rarity in Bollywood and equally rare is a no nonsense approach in making it.

This is probably the first Bollywood film that looks closely at India's political involvement outside of its own shores.

Watch this one as it takes you back to a horrid chapter of our political history and makes you think.

This is arguably the best political thriller that Bollywood has so far given us.

Amidst a lot of controversies and protests ‘Madras Cafe’ opened today with a lot of speculation. The film is Bollywood’s attempt at political thriller, and director Shoojit Sircar has not disappointed.

Madras Cafe Movie Review | Rating: 4/5 | What’s Good: An engrossing monologue which excavates one of India’s most overbearing conspiracies left back in the dusty pages of history.

This could be a first for any Bollywood director. To successfully abandon over-the-top Bollywood clich©s and staple musical sojourns to create an action drama thats incredibly taut, gritty, thought-provoking, engaging and…

The film bristles with the raw, unnerving textures of a battlefield documentary. What is impressive is the film’s cool restraint. Not once does it attempt to sensationalize, sermonize or take sides.

Political, tense, finally explosive, Madras Cafe is no picnic in the neighborhood park. Madras Cafe’s true star is its story which builds up to an agonizing end.

Even though the film ever-so-slightly under-delivers, we should be blessed that it got made at all.

Connoisseurs of good cinema will relish what they see on the screen but the large base of mass audience will not really approve of the drama.