Monika Rawal Kukreja of Hindustan Times wrote "Shiv Shastri Balboa is sweet, innocent and an endearing story about love, life and learnings.",Read at source
Shiv Shastri Balboa 2023 
Synopsis
Shiv Shastri Balboa
Shiv Shastri Balboa is a 2023 Indian Hindi-language comedy drama film written and directed by Ajayan Venugopalan. The film stars Anupam Kher, Neena Gupta and Jugal Hansraj in lead roles. The film was shot mostly in New Jersey, U.S. The soundtrack and background score were composed by Alokananda Dasgupta. The cinematography was done by Joshua Ausley and edited by Praveen Prabhakar.
- Director
- Ajayan Venugopalan
- Release
- 10 Feb 2023
- Studio
- UFI Motion Pictures, Anupam Kher Studio
- Run time
- 126 min
- Language
- Hindi
Reviews
3 Indian-media reviews, grouped by reception.
Critics' consensus
Mixed
Critics' aggregate for Shiv Shastri Balboa is 50/100 from Shubhra Gupta (The Indian Express).
Synthesized by AI (gpt-5-codex-omdb-enricher) from 4 source-backed reviews — verify against the linked sources.Positive 3
Rekha Khan of Navbharat Times wrote "Lovers of family and entertainment films can watch this film.",.Read at source
Shubhra Gupta of The Indian Express gave 2.5 out of 5 ratings.Read at source
Media & trailers
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Details
Technical specs
- Release date
- 10 Feb 2023
- Run time
- 126 min
- Language
- Hindi
- Country
- IN
- Director
- Ajayan Venugopalan
- Studio
- UFI Motion Pictures, Anupam Kher Studio
Trivia
- The film was shot mostly in New Jersey, U.S.
- The soundtrack and background score were composed by Alokananda Dasgupta.
- The cinematography was done by Joshua Ausley and edited by Praveen Prabhakar.
- The film premiered in North America at Chicago South Asian film festival and Atlanta Indian Film Festival.
- Shiv Shastri Balboa was awarded the best feature film (Runner-up) at CSAFF.
Tags
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