SteinMo What a freaking movie. So many twists and turns. Absolutely intense from start to finish.

Teddie Blake The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

Rio Hayward All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Casey Duggan It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

Murtaza Ali X: Past is Present is easily of the most beautifully photographed and lyrical Indian films that I have ever watched. A collaboration of eleven filmmakers viz Abhinav Shiv Tiwari, Anu Menon, Nalan Kumarasamy, Hemant Gaba, Pratim D. Gupta, Q, Raja Sen, Rajshree Ojha, Sandeep Mohan, Sudhish Kamath and Suparn Verma, X: Past is Present stars the endlessly charming and debonair Rajat Kapoor and some of the most talented young actresses working in the industry today including Radhika Apte, Huma Qureshi, and Swara Bhaskar. X: Past is Present is about a filmmaker who gets overcome by a bout of nostalgia when he meets a girl half his age at a party, as he is reminded of all the women in his life. Sounds like the master Italian filmmaker Federico Fellini's Otto e Mezzo aka 8 1/2? Well, be ready for the surprise of your life as X: Past is Present is nothing like anything you would have ever watched before. It is like a breath of fresh air that contemporary Indian cinema seems to be missing. It is really a pity that a film like this went relatively unnoticed when it should have been bestowed with all kinds of accolades. Which reminds me of Chandraprakash Dwivedi's brilliant political satire Zed Plus, a gem of a film that I reviewed on IMDb some time back. Movies like these just come and go. The loss of course is entirely ours. Of the 11 chapters in X: Past is Present, my favorite is 'Chapter III: Knot', written & directed by Raja Sen. and featuring the beautiful Huma Qureshi in a never-seen-before tantalizing avatar. How I wished the chapter never ended. Now, I know why James Bond 007 doesn't prefer the Windsor knot. Here is a film that needs to be watched.For more on the world of cinema, please visit my film blog "A Potpourri of Vestiges".

r-ratheesh If you are looking for a routine Bollywood movie, this may not be a right choice. But if you are interested in a good movie with great direction, this is a must watch.It's very difficult to get all the important aspects of a movie like direction (which I think personally as most important), story, characters, acting, actors, editing, dialogues etc. to be very good in a single movie and this is what X: Past is Present achieves. This movie is a proof that good Bollywood movie can reach up to the standard of a good Hollywood one.There are no black and white characters here but rather grey ones with each having their own reasons for how they behave and our main character is no exception. Whatever he does may not always be correct (nor totally wrong either) but he has his reasons (like we all do).So I suggest to keep an open mind about how a Bollywood movie can turn out to be and I am sure that you will enjoy it. Area of improvement can be the ending but still that doesn't allow me to justify myself if I give it a rating less than 10.

dhananjay yadav Let me tell u folks, this is different. Its screenplay, Direction and acting is superb and intriguing. Its worth watching if you like off- beat cinema. Each story is written and directed by different writers and directors but its not different story, its a part of the same story but the fascinating thing about this movie is how they are linked and portrayed. Its climax is also good so please watch till the end.Apart from Rajat Kapur, Huma Quraishi and Radhika Apte, Swara Bhaskara has done a splendid Job as A Tamilian Girl. Other newcomers have also performed well. Altogether I can say that its a new kind of cinematic experience for sure.

Arslan Ghazi I like the film very much, it has several reasons. 1st is that the selection of cast of the movie (Rajat kapoor, Radhika apte and all others) was very good. Despite of bold roles, all of them did their best. Direction is also very good. Past is shown in a very good way. The best thing is that film starts in a mysterious way and ends mysteriously (lefts you kind of shocked). Every single part of movie is connected to other. You can't get away from it once you started. If you put your concentration on any other thing while the movie is playing or you miss a part of it then after some while you will ask yourself, what happened or how did that happened? Hats off for all the cast and directors.