Saina Movie Critics Review: by Taran Adarsh, Komal Nahta, Joginder Tujeja, Rajiv Masand
Movie Review: Saina
Stars: Nayesha Kaur Bhatoye, Parineeti Chopra, Meghna Malik, Manav Kaul, Ehsaan Naqvi, Shubharajyoti, Ankur etc.
Writer: Amol Gupte, Amitosh Nagpal
Director: Amol Gupte
Producers: Bhushan Kumar, Krishna Kumar, Sujay Jayaraj and Rhesh Shah
Bollywood actress Parineeti Chopra’s film Saina has been in the news since the announcement. The film is a biopic of badminton star Saina Nehwal, in which Parineeti has worked hard to play her role. Hindi cinema is in love with a biopic. Don’t know how much it is, how much strength it is. The film can be made in two ways. A story gets stuck in the mind of a director or the director reaches a story by putting his mind. The difference between the two is the same in a classic biopic and a common biopic. As soon as director Amol Gupte’s name comes to mind, the first story of his first film Taare Zameen Par is flashed. He is an amazing director. The technicians are also very good. They are not involved in storytelling through the camera. He should just take his own break for how much he should walk in his film and how much he liked the audience.
Saina Film Critics Review
Ratings: 4/5 Review By Rahul Parshad : Site: Filmyhype.com
Saina grew up as a winner from childhood. In such a situation, there is no such struggle that touches the heart of the audience. However, Amol Gupte constantly tries to show Saina a ‘lioness’ throughout the film. She has a good story about ‘poster girl of India’ for her film Badminton. There is also no doubt that this film could have been more memorable. But it is rarely seen in the sense of motivating the youth.
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Ratings: 2.5/5 Review By PRATEEK SUR : Site: Rediff.com
The message behind the film is solid. When a sports person makes it to the top, it’s not just him/her whose efforts have gone into building their career, but their family and coaches too. Everyone needs to be given equal credit for success. People want their kids to become Saina Nehwal or Sachin Tendulkar or M S Dhoni or Mahesh Bhuphati or Baichung Bhutia — but no one wants to be their parents as that would require an equal amount of hard work.
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Ratings: 3.5/5 Review By: Renuka Vyavahare Site: Times of India
Champions are not born overnight. They are made. Saina Nehwal, daughter of Usha and Harvir Singh Nehwal, a Haryanvi couple from Hyderabad created history in 2015 when she became the first Indian woman and only the second Indian after Prakash Padukone to attain the world No.1 ranking in Badminton. She is just 31 and if you are a sports enthusiast, you are pretty much aware of her achievements, fallout with coach Pullela Gopichand and why she owes it all to her parents and modest middle-class upbringing. But there’s always more to the story than meets the eye.
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Ratings: 3/5 Review By: Nandini Ramnath Site: Scroll.in
As a sports movie, Saina takes care to highlight the commitment and sacrifices required by players and their families. From the training scenes to recreations of important matches, the movie displays an admirable commitment to making badminton sexy for lay viewers. Parineeti Chopra too is more at ease moving around the court than she is off it. Chopra works up a sweat as an athlete, but is ice-cold in resting mode.
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Ratings: 3.5/5 Review By: Himesh Mankad Site: Pinkvilla.com
Overall, it’s an ace for Amole Gupte with this biopic, however, it could have been a clean sweep had he taken care of some flaws by focusing a little better on the character build up and the badminton matches. The team does justice to the achievements and legacy of Saina Nehwal with well-intentioned biopic. Saina is a winner, on and off the court.
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Ratings: 3.5/5 Review By: Gautam Batra Site: Koimoi.com
Overall, Saina is everything you need to watch this weekend in cinemas. It will inspire you, move you and most importantly entertain you. Go for it! Even though too many biopics are being made in Bollywood these days, this one turns out to be an engaging and moving watch.
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Ratings: /5 Review By: Komal Nahta Site: Filmyinformation.com
On the whole, Saina is too unexciting to prove victorious on the box-office field. It neither moves the viewers emotionally nor inspires them much. It will, therefore, fail to make a mark at the ticket windows.
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Ratings: 3/5 Review By: Vinamra Mathur Site: Mid-Day.com
Gupte seeks solace in fragile yet ferocious characters that start off as underdogs and go on a triumphant journey to defy all odds. Be it Taare Zameen Par (where he was credited as the creative director) or Hawaa Hawaai, which was based on the sport of skating, all these titles are about people for whom success at first seems impossible, and a glimmer of hope acts as a ray of sunshine. In Saina, that ray of sunshine is Saina’s mother, played by the fascinating Meghna Malik, who holds the screen with a commanding aura.
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Ratings: 4/5 Review By: Bollywood Hungama Site: BollywoodHungama.com
On the whole, SAINA gives a great overview of one of the finest sports player of our country. The performance of Parineeti Chopra, the dramatic and emotional moments and the appropriate pace of the film contributes highly to the film’s appeal. Piyush Shah’s cinematography is captivating, especially in the badminton scenes. Amit Ray and Subrata Chakraborty’s production design gives the feel of a sports film. Red Chillies VFX’s VFX is praiseworthy. Deepa Bhatia’s editing is smooth and the pacing of the film is appropriate.
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Ratings: 4/5 Review By: Subhash K Jha Site: Spotboye.com
Saina spreads it wings far and wide creating a commodious yet compact world of sports and sexism, parental bullying and filial allegiance, sport etiquette and sporting tolerance, big dream and bigger achievements…The theme song Main parinda kyon banoon mujhe aasman ban-na hai/Main panna kyun banoon mujhe dastaan ban-na hai says it all. Quietly effective in the dramatic moments and unabashedly celebratory in tone, this is how a biopic should be.
