Dhaval Roy of The Times of India gave 4 stars out of 5 and said "Despite some flaws, Berlin is a masterclass in suspenseful storytelling and character development.Read at source
Berlin 2024 
Synopsis
Berlin
Berlin is a 2023 Indian Hindi-language spy thriller film written and directed by Atul Sabharwal, produced by Zee Studios and Yippie Ki Yay Motion Pictures. It stars Aparshakti Khurana, Ishwak Singh, Rahul Bose, Anupriya Goenka, and Kabir Bedi. The film had its world premiere at Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles 2023. The film released on 13 September 2024 on ZEE5 to positive reviews from critics.
- Director
- Atul Sabharwal
- Release
- 13 Sept 2024
- Studio
- Zee Studios, ZEE5
- Run time
- 119 min
- Language
- Hindi
Reviews
8 Indian-media reviews, grouped by reception.
Critics' consensus
Mixed
Critics' aggregate for Berlin is 61/100 from 8 scored critic/publication reviews.
Synthesized by AI (gpt-5-codex-omdb-enricher) from 9 source-backed reviews — verify against the linked sources.Watch points
- performances
Positive 6
Mayank Shekhar of Mid-Day gave 3 stars out of 5 and stated that "The film looks cold, in a John le Carré space, like Cold War itself.Read at source
Mayur Sanap of Rediff.com gave the film 4/5 stars and recommends "Make time for this one, you will be in for a pleasant surprise like I was."Read at source
Saibal Chatterjee of NDTV gave 3 stars out of 5 and said that "The film deserves kudos for its refusal to kowtow to the current demands of the Bollywood spy movie template"Read at source
Vinamra Mathur of the Firstpost gave 3 stars out of 5 and observes that "Aparshakti Khurana and Ishwak Singh's chemistry is in sync with the required restlessness of the story and situation.Read at source
Zinia Bandyopadhyay of India Today rated 3.5/5 writes in her review that "Berlin is a good watch that you will be hooked onto.Read at source
Critical 2
A critic from Bollywood Hungama gave 2 out of 5 stars and wrote "Berlin rests on the terrific performances by Ishwak Singh and Aparshakti Khurana.Read at source
Shubhra Gupta of The Indian Express gave 2 stars out of 5 and writes in her review that "At no point did I feel a sense of fear for any of the characters.Read at source
Media & trailers
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Details
Technical specs
- Release date
- 13 Sept 2024
- Run time
- 119 min
- Language
- Hindi
- Country
- IN
- Director
- Atul Sabharwal
- Studio
- Zee Studios, ZEE5
- Distributor
- ZEE5
Trivia
- The film stars Aparshakti Khurana, Ishwak Singh, Rahul Bose, Anupriya Goenka, and Kabir Bedi.
- Principal photography for the movie began in February 2022 and was completed by April of the same year.
- The movie was released on the streaming platform ZEE5 on 13 September 2024.
- Ishwak Singh won the Best Actor Award for his performance at the Stars Asian International Film Festival in Los Angeles.
- The background score was composed by Krishna Kumar, who is professionally known as K.
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