BroadcastChic Excellent, a Must See

Frances Chung Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

Celia A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

Fleur Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

trollmeme8 In the few inital moments the director comes out as this very confused sort of person who has no idea what he is trying to show and confuses the audience more than himself. Throughtout the entire run of the film it's very confusing who the film is actually about , is it Dalbir Kaur or Sarbjit Singh? Irrespective of everything Dalbir did for her brother, if the director intended to make the film about Dalbir instead then arguably this film it should have been about her. The performances are disappointing except for Randeep Hooda who is the only light which reaches out of this film through the bars of confusion that this film is. Hindi films have always made it clear that songs are an integral part of their culture and hence their films but the songs in this movie are utterly useless and convey no real emotion. All in all , the film should be avoided and account of Sarbjit Singh and her sister should be read about from online sources and what available news sources present.Aishwarya Rai and Omung Kumar have jumbled to and fro with a very potential laden idea and make it taste dust.

Varun Chaudhary When posters of the film carry not the face of the actor playing the titular character but the star backing the project, you know exactly what you will get.'Sarbjit' , based on the story of a man incarcerated in a Pakistani jail for over two decades, while his sister fought a dogged battle for his release, opts for high-pitched saccharine-laden melodrama : the star is equally high-pitched, leaving the actor to bring up the rear.Sarbjit's story has been well-documented. He lived with his family—old father, wife Sukh ( Chaddha), and fiercely loyal sister Dalbir ( Rai) in a Punjab village close to the Indo-Pak border. He strayed over the line one night, and was nabbed by the Pakistani patrol. That's when his ordeal started—thrown in a box for months, limbs contorted, hung upside down and flayed till bloody, till he was forced into a false confession, and jailed.The devastated Dalbir , ever protective about her 'bhai', takes up cudgels on his behalf. And she keeps going through the long and hard grind : her appeals to officials on either side of the border fall mostly on deaf ears, with only a few light-in-the-tunnel moments.There is heft in the story. The horror of a human forced to suffer physical and mental torture, and used as a political pawn between India and Pakistan and their see-sawing relations, is wrenching. The family is caught in a terrible cleft, neither able to forget, nor properly mourn. But the treatment is cloying and sentimental, and manipulates you into weeping without actually feeling.A real-life tale which is inherently so full of drama and heart-break has no need to be artificially revved up. But mainstream Bollywood doesn't know any other way to do things. 'Sarabjit' should have been called 'Dalbir', because it is Aishwarya doing all the heavy-lifting, but to distressing little impact.First off, she is all wrong for the part, her attempts at the rural Punjabi accent slipping up every so often. And then she goes full tilt at her lines, ratcheting up the volume, to such an extent that you want to tell her to hush. When she does go silent, even if precisely for two and a half scenes, she is able to convey her pain and anguish so much better. If she had modulated her act, 'Sarbjit' would have been a better film.And of course there is the superfluous 'giddha-shiddha' : when will Bollywood make a film on Punjabi characters minus this cliché ? Richa Chaddha hovers mostly in the background, with only one or two scenes which she owns. One noble Pakistani shows up, in the shape of a lawyer ( Darshan), who believes that Sarbjit is innocent. The rest is taken over by Ms Rai, straining every sinew, delivering loud lectures to both Indians and Pakistanis, and, heaven help us, Talibanis.I did tear up a couple of times, but only for Sarbjit. Randeep Hooda is mostly shown inside his dark, fetid cell, his hair filthy, his hands gnarled. He nails the look and the accent, letting neither overpower him, and is the only reason to sit through this sagging saga.

Tanmay Patange Directed by Omung Kumar, Sarbjit is a biographical drama film, which is based on a true story of Sarabjit Singh – an Indian national from a village located on the border in Punjab, who was convicted of terrorism and spying by a Pakistani court in 1990 and later sentenced to death in 1991. The plot is entirely aimed at a struggle of Dalbir Kaur (played by Aishwarya Rai Bachchan), a brave-hearted sister, who fights for 23 years to bring her brother Sarabjit (played by Randeep Hooda) back to his country, who according to himself and his family, is being framed by Pakistan government for a crime he didn't commit. Dalbir keeps on fighting hard and convincing people from both India and Pakistan that Sarabjit is innocent and should be released immediately. Meanwhile, Sarabjit's death sentence is repeatedly postponed by the Government of Pakistan. The story illustrates several ups and downs throughout the rising tension between both the countries due to events impacted by 1999 Kargil War, 2001 Indian Parliament attack, and 2008 Mumbai attacks. Unfortunately, Dalbir's fight ends with Sarabjit who gets attacked in a prison in 2013 and dies a week later in a hospital in Lahore. Sarbjit is a must-watch film, especially for an outstanding acting by both Randeep Hooda and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan. As the story takes many emotional twists and turns, it is highly unlikely that you will not admire this film.

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