Ishqiya

The film has a riveting plot, great performances, soulful music, an absorbing story and skilful direction to make the viewer fall in ishq with it.

Every actor delivers and everyone involved in the making of this movie deserves credit.

...the best thing about Ishqiya is how grown-up it is...Ishqiya’s humour and sensuality is for adults who are not afraid to confront the depths of their emotions.

...fun and eventful ride all the way. Hop on!

...certainly is a film you will fall in love with.

Rarely are grace and profanity cited in the same breath. Debutant filmmaker Abhishek Chaubey's Ishqiya, however, is a privileged exception.

...the film is a sutli bomb (firecracker) that tickles and explodes. But for the hurried and harried end. Go, have a blast.

I know its only January but I think its safe to say that Ishqiya is the most crackling film you’ll see this year. It’s feisty and sly and very, very sexy.

High on drama and wild at times, you are bound to fall in love with Khalujaan and Babban.

...director Abhishek Chaubey combines elements of his guru Vishal Bharadwaj (the rawness of the script) with that of Quentin Tarantino (the background score and wild characters), which results in an edgy, stylised comic thriller.

A delicious tragicomic love story; you must sample this.

...a charming, enticing flick that commits the mistake of biting a little more than what it could actually chew. In the process, Ishqiya, like its lead protagonists, digs up its own grave!

...an intriguing tale with great performances.

...a delicious little film that teeters dangerously between saucy comedy and suspenseful noir. Unapologetically adult in its relationships, its language and its humor, the film sparkles for its inspired writing and uncompromised direction.

Wooooah. What a fun and fabulous film, totally naughty and wicked.

It's a film that's fun. A little amouse bouche. Enjoy.

This road film is in parts, an Yi Tu Mama Tambien sort of bizarre romance, an El Mariachi type curry-western, and a City Of God kind of grimy thriller. Yet, the pungent odour is entirely original. Oh smell it - for sure.

The wild and unpredictable rawness of ‘Ishqiya’ is superb.

Watch `Ishqiya’ for an emerging new voice.

Anyone who loves to hear stories and drown themselves in the sights and sounds of a place will be delighted. The performances will have you gasping for more.

Ishqiya’s Achilles heel is akin to that of its lead characters. It succumbs to the greed of wanting too much but has only a vague notion as to how to get it. Keeping it simple may have helped.

Once you believe in the story, its well told. But even after the plot has unfolded there's a huge gap in understanding the characters.

On a basic level, Ishqiya is extremely entertaining, and yet, it’s hard to shake off the suspicion that it could have been so much more given its initial promise about a refreshingly adult approach to love, an emotion that has been infantilised by most of our filmmakers.

How do we evaluate Ishqiya beyond its politically-charged verbally-lurid lunge at realism? Is the film to be applauded for forging a new language of expression? Or should that language have been used with more restrain and tact ?