Ashish Tiwari of Dainik Bhaskar stated, "The story captures the fragrance of Old Delhi, elegance of Urdu, and warmth of human relationships.Read at source
Gustaakh Ishq 2025 
Synopsis
Gustaakh Ishq
Gustaakh Ishq: Kuch Pehle Jaisa (transl. Audacious Love: Something Like Before) is a 2025 Indian Hindi-language romantic drama film directed by Vibhu Puri and produced by Stage5 Productions. The film stars Naseeruddin Shah, Vijay Varma, Fatima Sana Shaikh, and Sharib Hashmi. The film marks the debut of fashion designer Manish Malhotra as a film producer. The film is set in the 1990s and follows a young poet's efforts to revive his father's printing press, but in doing so falls for his mentor’s daughter, forcing him to choose between love and loyalty.
- Director
- Vibhu Puri
- Release
- 24 Nov 2025
- Studio
- Stage 5 Productions
- Run time
- 128 min
- Language
- Hindi
Reviews
5 Indian-media reviews, grouped by reception.
Critics' consensus
Mixed
Critics' aggregate for Gustaakh Ishq is 60/100 from Shubhra Gupta (Indian Express) and Smita Srivastav (Dainik Jagran) and Syed Firdaus Ashraf (Rediff.com).
Synthesized by AI (gpt-5-codex-omdb-enricher) from 5 source-backed reviews — verify against the linked sources.Common praise
- writing
Positive 4
Nandini Ramnath of Scroll.in stated that "Gustaakh Ishq (Audacious Love) has the quality of a novella that could have rolled off Babban's press.Read at source
Smita Srivastav of Dainik Jagran gave 3 out of 5 stars saying, "The film is slow in the start.Read at source
Syed Firdaus Ashraf of Rediff.com gave 4 stars out of 5 and said that "Gustaakh Ishq feels like a cinematic revival of everything we once loved about Urdu story-telling."Read at source
Critical 1
Shubhra Gupta of Indian Express gave 2 out of 5 stars saying, "Gustakh Ishk is kind of film that is set in 1990s but looks more from 60s or 70s.Read at source
Media & trailers
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Details
Soundtrack
- Ul Jalool Ishq Shilpa Rao, Papon
- Aap Iss Dhoop Mein Arijit Singh
- Sheher Tere Jazim Sharma, Himani Kapoor
- Chal Musafir Armaan Malik
- Hum Fanaa Javed Ali, Parvez Babblu
Technical specs
- Release date
- 24 Nov 2025
- Run time
- 128 min
- Language
- Hindi
- Country
- IN
- Director
- Vibhu Puri
- Studio
- Stage 5 Productions
- Distributor
- PVR Inox Pictures
Trivia
- The film marks the debut of fashion designer Manish Malhotra as a film producer.
- The film was shot in and around the city of Amritsar and Delhi.
- This is the first feature film of Vijay Varma in five years to release on the big screen.
- The film premiered at the 56th International Film Festival of India (IFFI) in Goa on 24 November 2025.
- The film collected ₹2.29 crore worldwide at the box office.
Tags
Hindi Cinema2025Hindi FilmReleasedHindi
