12 reviewers have given Thar an average rating of 2.3/5.0 (?)
2 yays 3 nays 7 so-so
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wogma rating: Watch, but no rush (?)
quick review:
Gory and done well enough for you to want the stomach-churning onslaught to stop. Great performances and aestheticscannot build a connection between two stories that are forced together into a film.
(Available on Netflix)
Thumbs up by Nitin Jain,
Glamsham.com
...Overall, Thar as mentioned earlier is not for the faint hearted but would be loved by audience who are aware of the genre and tend to enjoy it...
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Thumbs up by Renuka Vyavahare,
Times of India
...har is brutal and if you cannot stand graphic violence, this one’s not for you. Switching on the English subtitles is also recommended for the desert dialect isn’t everyone’s cup of tea....
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So-So by Madhuri V,
Filmi Beat
...Devoid of any songs, Thar is a crisp watch with a duration of one hour and forty-eight minutes. Ajay Jayanthi's background score seems a bit jarring at the beginning, but soon settles in.
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So-So by Shubhra Gupta,
indian express
...Thar has many elements jostling for our attention: a tiny outpost in a border town, a mysterious stranger, a couple of cops, and a series of bodies, draining of life-blood, decaying, dying. But this is one of those films where the setting is the real hero– the ‘marusthal’ (desert) stretching as far as the eye can see, crumbling forts, bare trees providing meagre shade, implacable, hard beauty. This stunning landscape and the haunting soundscape becomes the site of a ‘bawandar’ (storm), as a principal character describes it, which blows everything away in its wake. These sights and sounds of Thar will stay with me, even as I quibble about some of it....
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So-So by Saibal Chatterjee,
NDTV
...Thar, a film with dialogues by Anurag Kashyap, has a few sharp edges, but it promises much more than it actually delivers. Vengeance, says a character, is a double-edged sword. In Thar, it has the feel of a mirage. It is bloody all right, but is far too pale to knock us out of our wits....
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So-So by Avinash Lohana,
Pinkvilla
...Thar is not only a thriller, but also has an important message at the end. Overall the film had immense potential and manages to retain a lot of it too, but what disappoints is the lack of enough twists, predictable turns and dispensable additions to the story....
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So-So by Sukanya Verma,
Rediff
...The women in Thar are its frequent casualties but Mukti Mohan's bawdy belle makes a meal out of it and emerges as the only bit of spunk in an otherwise dreary deal.
Clint Eastwood could be well talking about the Western genre in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly when he famously said, 'There's two kinds of people, my friend. Those with loaded guns and those who dig. You dig.'
Thar is too pretentious to do anything else....
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So-So by Nandini Ramnath,
Scroll.in
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So-So by Stutee Ghosh,
The Quint
...Anil Kapoor mines the weariness and wisdom on his face with aplomb. Harsh Varrdhan Kapoor plays the self-proclaimed antics dealer Siddharth with a hollow, vacant look throughout the film. His face really doesn’t give away anything, it registers no emotions and one is not sure if this is the best he could do or was he instructed to play the character with a lost look. Perhaps we will never know....
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Thumbs down by Subhash K Jha,
Bolly Spice
...Until the end I couldn’t figure out why Raahul Singh was going around shooting people . The more the merrier,I guess.Minimalist in mood, nihilistic in tone,and atrophied in its execution, Thar tries to be that dark brutal desi Western which is cannot be....
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Thumbs down by Russel D'Silva,
Bollywood Life
...Being boring isn't the only problem of Thar on Netflix as it's just scratchily plotted and weakly directed. These new-age Bollywood filmmakers need to first and foremost understand the difference between dull filmmaking and art filmmaking, and secondly that they're hardly reinventing anything as what they think they're doing, obviously motivated by international filmmakers, has been done decades ago by our own past masters. I'm going with 1 out of 5 stars for the spectacle and some bits of genuine horror....
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Thumbs down by Anuj Kumar,
The Hindu
...However, the senior Kapoor can still wade through shallow waters and imbue life in dry situations. Like wine, he is getting better with age. In fact, it is the conversations between Kapoor and Kaushik over food that keep you spirited in Thar....
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