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India Express - ‘Nil Battey Sannata’ has a strong message about how education can change your life. It does underline the message, but stays just short of being preachy or message-y. And leaves you with a warm glow. 

 

IANS - "Nil Battey Sannata" is a sentimental, inspirational film that is provocative and will appeal to everyone.

TOI - Nil Battey Sannata is a rare film, the kind that will bring tears to your eyes but leave a smile on your face. It is gratifying to watch something unpretentious in times when masala films are stooping to entertain.

NDTV - Nil Battey Sannata is easy to recommend. It is light-hearted, easy on the eyes and mind, and full of heart.

 

India Today - Mother's Day is on May 8 and Nil Battey Sannata is a timely, fitting tribute to the paramount figure in all our lives without whom we are all lesser beings.

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Average Rating of All 'Nil Battey Sannata' Review - 3.7 stars

 

Nil Battey Sannata Review by Saibal Chatterjee on NDTVMovies

Rating: ★★★½☆

 

Nil Battey Sannata is easy to recommend. It is light-hearted, easy on the eyes and mind, and full of heart. This film says a great deal about a girl-child’s struggles, a mother’s hopes and the ways of the education system. But, in the end, Nil Battey Sannata is also a good old story about life and its vicissitudes.

 

Nil Battey Sannata Review by Suhani Singh on India Today

Rating: ★★★☆☆

 

Tiwari’s film is as much about the mother-daughter bond as it is about the significance of aspirations and hard work. For all its plusses, Nil Battey Sannata has a few minuses in the unwarranted and mushy Sanjay Suri cameo, tendency to protract the gimmicky battle between Chanda and Appu and the preachy happy ending. Further, the implication that Appu’s desire to be a maid or her friend’s to be a driver makes them less driven human beings could have been addressed with some subtlety. But Tiwary does nail her two female leads, offering viewers a nuanced portrait of a temperamental teenager and a spirited woman.

 

Nil Battey Sannata Review by Gautaman Bhaskaran on Hindustan Times

Rating: ★★★★☆

 

It is not just a touching story of a mother and her daughter but also a great chapter on the importance of education. It tells us that a parent’s limitations need not stop his/her child too. Bhaskar affirms this with a rare power and simplicity — a yawning difference from the parts she played as a modern woman in the Tanu Weds Manu series. As is often believed in Bollywood, an actor must be able to let go his/her own self and sink into a character and she does.

 

Nil Battey Sannata Review by Shubhra Gupta on Indian Express

Rating: ★★★☆☆

 

Any parent can recognize this mix of feelings—loving their child to distraction, and climbing walls due to frustration, caused by the self-same child—both at the same time. Bhaskar does a good job of the bewilderment, annoyance and plain wordless affection that comes from a deep maternal place. The little girl is appropriately scrappy and needy. These two are the mainstay of the film. But the one who helps add a well-judged layer is the school principal, played by the reliably excellent Pankaj Tripathy. ‘Nil Battey Sannata’ has a strong message about how education can change your life. It does underline the message, but stays just short of being preachy or message-y. And leaves you with a warm glow.

 

Review by Aarti Iyengar on Bollywood Life

Rating: ★★★★☆

 

Overall, this film is like a treat to all the mothers and daughters out there. The relationship that Ashwini has captured is astounding. Every daughter can relate to this film even if they don’t fall in the poor background as the film is more than that.

 

Review by Mohar Basu on The Times Of India

Rating: ★★★½☆

 

Nil Battey Sannata is a rare film, the kind that will bring tears to your eyes but leave a smile on your face. It is gratifying to watch something unpretentious in times when masala films are stooping to entertain. Director Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari makes you buy into Chanda’s innocent world, where happiness is found over relishing a plate of Chow Mein while watching a horror film.

 

Review by Manisha Lakhe on Nowrunning

Rating: ★★★☆☆

 

The movie is just so amazing because the solution brings a smile to your face. The mother uses this reverse logic on the child to egg her on to getting better marks. The child is unsuspecting and falls hook, line and sinker to the ‘project get the child to study’.

 

Review by Jaidev Hemmady on Movietalkies

Rating: ★★★★☆

 

Aanand L Rai, who is known for making simple yet poignant stories set in North India, comes up with yet another winner in Nil Battey Sannata. The mother’s struggle to give her daughter an education, which will in turn provide her with a fighting chance when dealing with the world, is damn inspiring and touching. Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari, the director of the film, weaves a beautiful tale of love, motherhood and aspirations, which will leave you teary-eyed.

 

Review by Vishal Verma on Glamsham

Rating: ★★★★☆

 

NIL BATTEY SANNATA is an applauding cinematic triumph, Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari gives a little gem of a humanistic, motivating and beautiful fable that celebrates the joy of having a dream and is an ode to woman hood and motherhood, anchored by Swara Bhaskar’s career best performance till date. Highly recommended, it’s a must if you love good, inspiring cinema.

 

Review by Namrata Thakker on Rediff

Rating: ★★★★½

 

While the first half is breezy and to the point, the second half seems a bit long. Certain scenes could have been done away with but the story and amazing performances make up for that. There is hardly a dull moment in the film. Overall, Nil Battey Sannata throws light not only the endearing mother-daughter relationship but also subtly explores issues like poverty and education.

 

Review by Asira Tarannum on Deccan Chronicle

Rating: ★★★★☆

 

Debutant director Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari has shown this heart-warming story in an entertaining and emotional way. The climax of the film makes one choke. Though the first half is slow, the second half picks up the pace. The casting of every character by Mukesh Chhabra is apt and Riya is a great find. It’s refreshing to see Swara switch from being a talkative sister to Salman Khan (Prem Ratan Dhan Payo) to a single mother. She bears the burden effortlessly. Producer Aanand L Rai and Eros have shown that small films can be brought to the celluloid with entertainment.

 

Nil Battey Sannata Review by Indiaglitz

Rating: ★★★½☆

 

‘Nil Battey Sannata’ is an outstandingly honest film which caters to all those who love good cinema with lots of emotional angle attached to it, especially a must watch for the teenagers and their parents. Though, the masala movie loving audience might shy away from this film.

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