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Movie Info

Johnny, a commoner, seeks wealth and fame to win Rosie, his love interest's heart. An entry into the world of crime gives his ambitions a headstart but he must face the formidable challenges therein.

Genre:

crime, action, drama
Original Language:

Hindi
Director:

Anurag Kashyap
Producer:

Vikas Bahl, Vikramaditya Motwane
Writer:

Gyan Prakash, Thani, Vasan Bala, Anurag Kashyap
Release Date (Theaters):

May 15, 2015 limited
Release Date (Streaming):

Apr 4, 2017
Box Office (Gross USA):

$437.6K
Runtime:

2h 29m

Cast & Crew

Ranbir Kapoor

Anushka Sharma

Karan Johar

Vivaan Shah
Tony

Kay Kay Menon

Raveena Tandon

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Critic Reviews for Bombay Velvet

All Critics (16) | Top Critics (6) | Fresh (8) | Rotten (8)

[Bombay Velvet] is lengthy, violent and emotionally shallow but brilliantly stylish bolly-noir.

October 24, 2017 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

Anil Sinanan
Time Out
It's the high-gloss realization of that world that affords many of the pic's most delicious pleasures.

April 19, 2016 | Full Review…

Guy Lodge
Variety
Too melodramatic to be a j'accuse about the dodgy origins of modern-day Indian prosperity, too explicitly preachy to be a gangster-and-moll romance and too stylistically incoherent to be a piece of guilty-pleasure entertainment.

April 19, 2016 | Full Review…

Clarence Tsui
Hollywood Reporter
For much of its first half, Bombay Velvet hums with the kind of energy found in movies by the 1970s American directors Mr. Kashyap seems to admire. (Martin Scorsese is thanked in the head credits.)

May 21, 2015 | Full Review…

Rachel Saltz
New York Times
Overlong Bollywood flick with impressive musical ballads and production values but slight dramatic power.

May 18, 2015 | Full Review…

Tomris Laffly
Film Journal International
The film is pure gorgeousness. Trouble is, it is also largely overwrought and inert.

May 15, 2015 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…

Shubhra Gupta
The Indian Express
Where Bombay Velvet comes up short for me, and this is a big one in my book, is that it feels clinical and rigid, where Kashyap's films are usually so well paced and fluid.

November 3, 2017 | Full Review…

J Hurtado
ScreenAnarchy
The factors that work in favour of Bombay Velvet outnumber those that do not. For one, Kashyap elicits fairly restrained performances from most of the cast.

April 19, 2016 | Full Review…

Anupriya Kumar
Reuters
Bombay Velvet is a moderate Hollywood imitation; significant for the craft it brings on screen, but little more than an excessive footnote in a universal genre. I'd rather revisit On The Waterfront or Goodfellas instead.

April 19, 2016 | Rating: 2.5/5 | Full Review…

Rahul Desai
Mumbai Mirror
Bombay Velvet makes for a good one-time watch primarily due to good performances from its lead actors and a reminder of a forgotten era.

April 19, 2016 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

Manjusha Radhakrishnan
Gulf News (UAE)
The American gangster films weren't big on complex characterisation either, but their narrative style had the directness, smoothness and impact of machine-gun fire. They also had sharp dialogue, which Bombay Velvet misses.

April 19, 2016 | Full Review…

Nandini Ramnath
Scroll.in
All the rich visual layers and authenticity cannot save Bombay Velvet, which is at best a one-dimensional story with characters whose fate the audience will be able to predict within the first 20 minutes.

May 21, 2015 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…

Christine Iyer
The National (UAE)