Ogosmith Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

Tayyab Torres Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

Michelle Ridley The movie is wonderful and true, an act of love in all its contradictions and complexity

Darin One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

screwfear Stupid movie, don't waste your time. If this movie is truly 7.9*, Bollywood standards and audience expectation has definitely gone low. SRK come too late in movie, by that time Ali Bhatt make sure you that you already gonna hate this movie. Ali Bhatt broke all ceiling of over acting.

noonoonomore I usually get the feeling that a 14 year old girl has written the script when I watch a Bollywood movie. The idea of this movie was good, and her problem was real. Being abandoned as a child can affect you in ways you can't imagine, spoiled, mean and self-conscious are only some of them, so the movie was fine in portraying her as a selfish and bitter girl. Aalia was fine, SRK was great, but lots of other things were wrong with this movie and they cannot be ignored.For example, we're supposed to believe that she is a brilliant cinematographer while we see nothing of her brilliance even though there are lots of opportunities for them to be shown. The other one was that any guy she met would go head over heels for this girl, what was that about? One would take her to the once-in-a-lifetime- opportunity kinda job at his own risk to New York just because she's hot; the other one would write music about her even though they've just met? And the part with Pink Floyd's first album, which is so precious to me because it was the only album with Syd Barrett as the lead, was pointless and stupid, disrespecting a legend by mentioning his album outta nowhere and not even bother playing one song? And the end was unaccountable. Everyone applauding her for a below average short film, and even a disaster with someone as supposedly talented and experienced as her!!!Overall I found it worth watching, especially for SRK's performance and the only good dialogues of the film. It's not the best movie of the year, it certainly wasn't the worst; just a mediocre time passer with an interesting subject that could've been much much much better.

sofia I mean the movie was really good I understood 100%, Alia could had worked better on her emotional scenes towards the end when she was leaving Dr Jehangir 's house she looked absolutely pathetic as if her laughter was going to come out...lol im sure everybody must had noticed that, and the other bit was when Alia Bhatt falls over the sofa, and Shahrukh Khan didn't here the bang and looks left right when she falls right in front him...you can clearly tell Shahrukh khan was acting which these things spoil it for me, might not for everyone...but i can seriously say I really enjoyed the movie...I mean kajols mona brow and Alia Bhatt's hairy side burns, I was like is this for real do hairy Mary's still exist in bollywood...lol lol i mean Alia Bhatt's side burns was more than her male Co stars, has the trend of waxing threading and laser finished in bollywood... Anyhow I enjoyed the movie very much...but can not really praise anyone's acting individually cause I saw a lot of flaws In the actors ability especially Alia even though she was still good, but the singer Ali Zafar's acting shines out the rest...

Rawal Afzal Before I begin to write anything about the film, I must state my regret of watching it quite a long time into its release. If I'd read about it and known what the plot revolves around, I sure wouldn 't have taken this long. This is my type of film, because amongst my family, friends and even random strangers, I was for a long time known as an "Off-label" psychologist, a friend for problems, till, sadly, very recently when I myself ran into adrenal insufficiency. So I've problems of my own, aplenty actually. Ah' I miss those days, solving people's problems and calming them down to allow them think rationally.... The world is in dearth of people who listen to other 's problems.So here is me suffering from a sub-clinical depression due to my hypothyroidism not being treated with the sufficient dose, due to the thyroid medicine worsening adrenal problems. So it's like going in unending circles, but minutes after finishing this film I was playing with my nieces, chasing them around in the rooms! That's the effect it had on me!A breath of fresh air from Bollywood, although that doesn't mean they haven't been making good films of late. It's just the theme that it deals with that isn't that mainstream in that industry. "Brain, after all, is a part of the human body" and it is perfectly normal for it to "Fall ill". This, these words had the most ever-lasting effect and from then on it becomes a ride, an experience, a film that I feel every viewer would in one way or the other, one incident or happening or the other, feel building a personal connection with him/her; simply because we've all suffered from it at some point in our lives, but just feel afraid of expressing it. So we feel that a film like this does what we wanted to do ourselves but held ourselves back from expressing it. Sometimes it is an underlying illness or hormonal imbalance, sometimes stress at home, work or personal life triggers it, or sometimes even a medicine that you take that might be causing you bouts of depression, but the point stands that depression and anxiety exist as illnesses, just like cancer, tumours and organ failures do. I could picture two very close persons in my mind whilst watching the film upon whom the film would fit 80 to 90%, but therein again lies the greatness of this film. It visits every household.Alia Bhatt was fantastic in her role. This is her territory and she nails it to be honest. Her past performances in 'Highway' (2014) or 'Udta Punjab' (2016) make it obvious to the film-makers whom to cast for such a role, but I thought this was quite an unusual role for Shah Rukh Khan and he was brilliant in it. He is for a reason amongst the very best of Bollywood's products. A highly capable man!The film-makers must be commended for building the connection between things. First it all appears to be confusing as a lazy girl goes about her life in a very careless manner, disrespecting people, and losing people and relations, and then a connection is built between her present and her past. Most likable and emotional thing of course was the bit about the drawings that she would draw for her parents. Despite having never been able to study all these aspects of childhood in life, I self-teach myself about things through the Internet and here too,... whenever my nieces bring me a drawing of theirs, even if randomly drawn lines, I'd examine it with them in details and ask them what it is etc. The third thing to love was the bit about her parents of course. No matter who bad they were or are, they're your parents. Respect them, talk to them, spend time with them, express your issues and loves and that'll magically improve the quality of your life. Not for them, but for yourself. Our most natural state is to love them, and by turning away from them we punish ourselves, and them too.All in all, a must watch film for anyone reading this. This film will surprise you and make you realise the value of life. Go for it!