Gautaman Bhaskaran of News18 felt the film "strongly resembles Jolly LLB".Read at source
Patna Shuklla 2024
Synopsis
Patna Shuklla
Patna Shuklla is a 2024 Indian Hindi-language legal drama film directed by Vivek Budakoti and produced by Arbaaz Khan for Disney+ Hotstar. It stars Raveena Tandon, Manav Vij, Chandan Roy Sanyal, Satish Kaushik, Anushka Kaushik, Jatin Goswami and others. The film was released on 29 March 2024 to negative reviews from critics.
- Director
- Vivek Budakoti
- Release
- 29 Mar 2024
- Studio
- Disney+ Hotstar
- Run time
- 125 min
- Language
- Hindi
Reviews
10 Indian-media reviews, grouped by reception.
Critics' consensus
Unfavorable
Critics' aggregate for Patna Shuklla is 48/100 from 4 scored critic/publication reviews.
Synthesized by AI (gpt-5-codex-omdb-enricher) from 10 source-backed reviews — verify against the linked sources.Common praise
- performances
- pacing
Positive 8
Monika Rawal Kukreja for Hindustan Times wrote "At two hours 13 minutes, the film appears a tad stretched in the second half and could have gone for a crisper editing, especially in the scenes outside the court."Read at source
Sana Farzeen for India Today gave 2.5 stars out 5 and stated "Bankrolled by Arbaaz Khan, the film gives Raveena Tandon a great platform to perform, something that the actor rightfully deserves."Read at source
Pushpangi Raina of Outlook India wrote "The movie doesn’t have abrupt cuts; however, there are a few seconds of black screens here and there, but those can be easily ignored."Read at source
Rohit Bhatnagar of The Free Press Journal praised Raveena Tandon's performance and stated "Raveena Tandon is the lifeline of Patna Shuklla.Read at source
Ronak Kotecha of The Times of India rated the film 3.5 stars out of 5 and wrote "Despite a slow pace, Raveena’s flawless act keeps the viewer interest alive.Read at source
Shreyas Pande of Cinema Express also found the film similar to Jolly LLB movie and stated "The judges in Patna Shuklla and Jolly LLB are almost identical, and even the back-and-forth between the lawyers and judges in both films are similar."Read at source
Shubhra Gupta of The Indian Express opined "A climactic rigmarole mars it, but Patna Shuklla is still one of those you can watch simply because you want to see good women win."Read at source
Critical 2
Giving a poor 1.5 star out of 5 Saibal Chatterjee of NDTV opined "The title isn't the only thing that is baffling about this film.Read at source
Sukanya Verma of Rediff.com gave poor 2 stars out of 5 and stated "Patna Shuklla's dull drama struggles to leave any impact as it goes about randomly introducing skeletons in everyone’s closet as its quick fix solution to anything."Read at source
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Details
Technical specs
- Release date
- 29 Mar 2024
- Run time
- 125 min
- Language
- Hindi
- Country
- IN
- Director
- Vivek Budakoti
- Studio
- Disney+ Hotstar
- Distributor
- Disney+ Hotstar
Trivia
- The film was produced by Arbaaz Khan for Disney+ Hotstar and directed by Vivek Budakoti.
- Principal photography commenced on 16 November 2022 and wrapped on 23 November 2022.
- Raveena Tandon finished her shooting for the lead role on 23 December 2022.
- The movie was released on 29 March 2024 to negative reviews from critics.
- Critics noted that the film used Bhopal as a filming location despite the story being set in Patna.
- Several reviewers observed that the character of Judge Jha strongly resembles the judge from the film Jolly LLB.
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