{"id":401,"date":"2011-02-19T20:26:01","date_gmt":"2011-02-19T20:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meabhi.com\/blog\/?p=401"},"modified":"2011-02-20T16:39:44","modified_gmt":"2011-02-20T16:39:44","slug":"7-khoon-maaf-review-roundup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meabhi.com\/blog\/7-khoon-maaf-review-roundup\/","title":{"rendered":"7 Khoon Maaf Review – A Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"

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After reading the reviews of 7 Khoon Maaf I am a bit confused! How many husbands did Piggy Chops aka Susanna kill in the movie? 6 or 7? The reviews have definitely grabbed my interest and I am planning to watch it tomorrow. Here\u2019s a roundup of the reviews that I found online. Also I’ve posted a video\u00a0of the Russian song Kalinka<\/a> and\u00a0the Daarrrrling song ( which is quite a craze these days) is copied from it! \u00a0Do take a look at it too \ud83d\ude42<\/div>\n

http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ClG2IIh4I3c<\/p>\n

7 Khoon Maaf – And the critics are saying!<\/h2>\n

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\nKomal Nahta of koimoi.com<\/a>:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0He has given it 1.5 stars.\u00a0Mr Nahta says that the takers for this kind of dark subject among the Hindi film-going audience won\u2019t be too many. According to his 7 Khoon Maaf review<\/a>\u00a0\u201cThere are a lot of questions that remain unanswered by the story writer and the screenplay writers. For example, how does Susanna keep falling in love with men with such alarming regularity when she has had bitter and chilling experiences in her married life in the past? The natural way for a lady in such a situation would be to be put off marriage forever\u2026Besides, why does she simply not walk out of the bad marriages? Why does she take law into her own hands each time she feels cheated by the husband? What is also puzzling is why man after man is keen on marrying Susanna when her earlier husband\/s has\/have died under mysterious circumstances.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Anupama<\/p>\n

Anupama Chopra of NDTV: <\/strong>She\u00a0isn\u2019t very happy with the film. She says \u201cThis is a tough story to pull off and despite the voluminous talent on display here \u2013 from director-co-writer-composer Vishal Bhardwaj to Priyanka to co-stars like Irrfan Khan and Naseeruddin Shah \u2013 the film stumbles and fumbles.\u201d Also the story and Susanna\u2019s character doesn\u2019t come off as believable. \u201cShe walks down the aisle with cheery optimism and the knowledge that if it doesn\u2019t work, there\u2019s always the other option. Why doesn\u2019t she just leave or opt for divorce? Because, as her faithful butler explains, that is her nature.\u201d Ms Chopra adds.<\/p>\n

Sonia Chopra of sify: <\/strong>She has good words for the movie. She says \u201cAt no point does writer-director Vishal Bhardwaj permit the viewer to blame Susannah (Priyanka Chopra) for any of her crimes; the viewer is to remain consistently sympathetic to her. And the film is so luscious for this reason: the way Bhardwaj makes us root for this semi-villain of a heroine.\u201d<\/p>\n

Aniruddha Guha of DNA:<\/strong> He gives 4\/5 to the movie and has showered praises on Piggy Chops and Vishal Bharadwaj. According to Mr Guha, \u201cPriyanka Chopra takes on a character that most of her contemporaries would shy away from and enacts it in a way only she possibly can. For a woman with as many shades as Susanna, Chopra gets a crack at a role of a lifetime. And Bhardwaj ensures she sparkles like never before.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Mayank
\nMayank Shekhar of Hindustan Times:<\/strong> He has given the movie 3 stars. He says the movie is a \u201cDark, demented dream run!\u201d He has also some good words for the leading lady \u201cFor Priyanka Chopra, who plays the Anglo-Indian protagonist, this is unquestionably a role of a lifetime. She has you by the eyeballs. So does most of the movie.\u201d Mr Shekhar also gives the readers a brief insight into Susanna\u2019s quest for marital bliss and why she ends up murdering her husbands? \u00a0As per him \u201cEach husband of Susanna’s, it turns out, is sick in the head (and bed) in uniquely separate ways. She adopts each one nonetheless, sometimes trusting hope over experience.\u201d<\/p>\n

Taran Adarsh of Bollywood Hungama:<\/strong> He says \u201cthe film will meet with diverse reactions \u2013 some will fancy it, while some will abhor it!\u201d He says \u201c7 Khoon Maaf works in parts. A few stories – involving Neil Nitin Mukesh, John Abraham, Irrfan Khan and Annu Kapoor – are absorbing, while at least two could’ve been better narrated.\u201d Also he feels that the second half of the movie is drab and lengthy. \u201cThe unfortunate part is that the uninteresting ones come in the latter half and coupled with its excessive length, the impact generated by a captivating first hour gets diluted in the process. Even the culmination doesn’t sweep you off your feet.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Rajeev
\nRajeev Masand of Ibnlive: <\/strong>He\u00a0is disappointed with the film and says the movie \u201ctests your patience\u201d He has given the movie a rating of 2 on 5. \u201cBoring isn’t a word you’d normally associate with a Vishal Bhardwaj film, but ‘Saat Khoon Maaf’ seriously tests your patience. The episodes don’t link with each other seamlessly, and the director moves on quickly from one to the next, never giving us a sense of reflection or regret (if any) on Susanna’s part after committing a murder.\u201d Mr Masand gives us a list of the murdered husbands- a possessive one-legged army-man, a drugged-out rockstar, a sexually sadistic Urdu poet, a two-timing Russian spy, a lust-driven ageing police officer, and an old-fashioned natural pharmacist but says that \u201cFew of them, however, have any scope to make a lasting impression.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After reading the reviews of 7 Khoon Maaf I am a bit confused! How many husbands did Piggy Chops aka Susanna kill in the movie? 6 or 7? The reviews have definitely grabbed my interest and I am planning to watch it tomorrow. Here\u2019s a roundup of the reviews that I found online. Also I’ve posted a video\u00a0of the Russian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[158],"tags":[201,203,202,150],"class_list":["post-401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abhis-take-on-cinema","tag-7-khoon-maaf","tag-7-km","tag-priyanka-chopra","tag-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meabhi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meabhi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meabhi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meabhi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meabhi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/www.meabhi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":405,"href":"https:\/\/www.meabhi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401\/revisions\/405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meabhi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meabhi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meabhi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}