Thackeray

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Thackeray

Released Jan 25, 2019

2h 0m

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The life of Balasaheb Thackeray.

Udita Jhunjhunwala

Firstpost

Sadly there is very little focus on his children or even his impact as an artist. The timeline of Thackeray is conveniently engineered to delete the unflattering, the sensitive and the problematic mandate.

Rated: 2/5

Mar 14, 2019

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Namrata Joshi

The Hindu

Between Thackeray's followers who will rationalise everything about him and find the film charismatic and the detractors who will find it unconvincing and abhorrent, lies a hagiography in continuum.

Jan 26, 2019

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Shubhra Gupta

The Indian Express

Almost every moment in the movie is a death of irony, the biggest of them being that Nawazuddin Siddiqui, an outsider on both counts of community and religion, plays Balasaheb Thackeray.

Rated: 2/5

Jan 26, 2019

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Baradwaj Rangan

Film Companion

Thackeray is a warts-and-none propaganda film about a man who peddled hate and keenly fostered a sense of otherness.

Rated: 2/5

Jan 28, 2019

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Saibal Chatterjee

NDTV

As provocative as the politics it celebrates, Thackeray is a film that is best left alone.

Rated: 1.5/5

Jan 28, 2019

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Devesh Sharma

Filmfare

Nawazuddin Siddiqui plays Thackeray and one can very well say it's the role of his life till date.

Rated: 3.5/5

Jan 28, 2019

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Audience Member

The story is very simplistic: the humankind side from right-wing politician-Bal Thackeray

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

02/06/23

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Audience Member

I love the movie very much. I love Bal Thackeray shaab 😍😍😍😍😍

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/21/23

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Audience Member

Most of the movie stays in BW format before the interval. The movie fails to create any justification with the titular character. The storyline deviates from the actual plot without a moral. Lack of songs and single Background Score also brings down an entire movie. Although the dialogues and screenplay was commendable. Actor Nawazuddin gives one of the career best performace on the celluloid. Amrita Rao fails to make her cameback. Direction was also above average and some parts were applaudable.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

02/07/23

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Audience Member

The acting of nawaz was super. But the movie dosnt have much work with supporting characters and also it's too slow. Let's divide movie in following Plot : plot was average. It dosnt roll on on other aspect than nawaz Acting : only one person managed the story it's nawaz Background music : most of movie dosnt have back ground music but at some part avg Camerawork and direction : director could focus on other characters than nawaz. Camera work in black and white was good but director made movie slow, he could have done more interesting manner

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

02/21/23

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Mik B

Apart from Nawazuddin's stellar performance, other aspects of this movie is not upto the mark! Screenplay, Direction, Editing all failed to create the much needed impact especially when it's based upon a real life character who was known for his impacts in the society! Being a Bio Pic it doesn't really show the life cycle of Balasaheb Thackeray, Instead it complies all the achievements and incidents that happened in his era! It looked just like any other TV made documentary. Nothing extraordinary in it That I expected from a Thackeray Biopic. That it should have been.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

05/28/19

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Audience Member

Stories of lies. Propaganda movie.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

02/14/23

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Abhijit Panse

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Nawazuddin Siddiqui

Bal Thackeray

Amrita Rao

Meena Thackeray

Mukund Gosavi

Prabodhankar Thackeray

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Uddhav Thackeray

Vishal Sudarshanwar

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Synopsis

The life of Balasaheb Thackeray.

Director: Abhijit Panse
Producer: Shrikant Bhasi, Hetvi Karia, Sanjay Raut, Vaishali Sarwankar, Varsha Sanjay Raut, Purvashi Sanjay Raut, Vidhita Sanjay Raut
Screenwriter: Sanjay Raut, Abhijit Panse, Abhijit Panse
Distributor: Sanjay Raut
Production Co: Raut'ers Entertainment, Carnival Motion Pictures
Genre: Biography, Drama
Original Language: Hindi
Release Date (Theaters): Jan 25, 2019, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): May 24, 2019
Box Office (Gross USA): $86.6K
Runtime: 2h 0m

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