Baar Baar Dekho (2016) User Reviews

Ek Baar Dekho! ♦ Grade C-

[nairtejas · 5/10 · 9 September 2016]

Debutante Nitya Mehra juxtaposes elements that are generally associated with science fiction, fantasy, and romance, and carves out a story that looks and feels very familiar to the audience at large.

Jai (Sidharth Malhotra) is a Mathematics professor who is in a ridiculously long and maintained relationship with Diya (Katrina Kaif), a modern art painter who is never shown using a paintbrush, even once. Jai wants to continue the relationship with his childhood sweetheart, but considers his career more important. Since he is also slightly unorthodox and possibly agnostic, he kicks up a storm with the pandit (priest) regarding the "saath phere" ("seven rounds around the holy fire which generally bonds marriages in Hindusim"). And we are told that this might be the cause why he dozes off after a life-changing tiff with Diya later that day and ends up waking up on his honeymoon, ten days later.

Baar Baar Dekho is essentially NOT a time travel flick. Rather, it is a partly science fictional and fantasy narrative involving a man who is partially cursed by a Hindu priest to teach him a lesson why the "saath phere" is important and why he should also focus on the small things in life. Jai flip-flops between his life, specifically touching the years 2023, 2034, and 2047, which makes him realize what he's been missing out and how his life would turn out to be if he continues to "not focus on the small things in life." Science fiction kicks in in terms of swanky, modular cars, sleek architectures, and good-looking technology. Having said that, it is also a romantic drama in part where Jai and Diya romance, and engage in matrimony, also unsuccessfully trying to embrace realism.

The film starts off very jubilantly, with a ballad-like, tuneful song serenading the audience to the lives of the protagonists as they grow up to be the bearers of the story. It is a delight to watch Malhotra and Kaif maneuver their characters effortlessly, supported by well-directed co-stars whose primary attribute is an all-smiles, if not exaggerated, faces. Ms. Mehra writes the romance well, but falters in the second part when Jai has to learn lessons and apply them in his life to make things right. While the story is definitely inspired by Frank Coraci's Click (2006) and Harold Ramis' Groundhog Day (1993), one wonders if it reaches any of the levels broken by those two classics. Conclusively, the story is neither novel nor awe-inspiring.

Malhotra is clueless throughout the film despite being a Mathematician who was last seen watching Ron Howard's A Beautiful Mind (2001). His character is half-baked, while Kaif gets into a type of character that she is evidently very comfortable in. She is charming in the first half. Ram Kapoor and Sarika both are pleasing. Shout out to Rohan Joshi for debuting, and Sayani Gupta for laddering up.

The film, if at all, teaches one to consider the small things in life and take merry in them, rather than working toward the big things, which may be too elusive and unworthy. Family is important than one's job as our Jai finds out the hard way, even though he knows how much 546 multiplied by 48 is. I know, that's what Mathematicians in Cambridge do, right!? Multiplication!

All in all, Baar Baar Dekho will work for an Indian viewer because there is enough dance and romance to get him through the first half. Even if he understands the concept, the second half is slightly boring and formulaic, with no importance given to his patience level, who may be forced to think why he didn't go for Sohail Khan's Freaky Ali (2016) instead.

BOTTOM LINE: Nitya Mehra's Baar Baar Dekho is a film about a man's fantasy which is caused by his ignorance to make him understand what life is. But, you know, one man's fantasy is other man's... Wait for DVD, and then rent it.

Can be watched with a typical Indian family? YES

Baar Baar Dekho has lessons for life but very little to entertain!

[thomaspmathews70 · 6/10 · 11 September 2016]

Baar Baar Dekho: Rewind, Forward, Rewind and Dekho!

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Nitya Mehra's 'Baar Baar Dekho' is an earnest attempt to tell that life in the 'Here and Now' is more beautiful than in the past and the future; therefore, stay in the 'Here and Now'. And it is the most challenging task for many of us because the past haunt us and the future is too promising and hence, we lose sight of the present. In the quest of making the future 'picture perfect' we avoid 'the moment' in hand that can give us assured happiness than the one in the future.

Nitya Mehra's lead protagonist Jai Varma gets baffled to find himself time traveling and seeing visuals of his life in the future that can make him lose and ruin his personal life. Shuttling from past, future and the present Jai Varma learns the most important lessons of life to stay happy and make it worthy. Through Jai Varma and his lady love Diya Kapoor aka DK we also time travels and tries to pick up possible challenges and mistakes we are committing or may commit. In due course of time in the movie hall many of us may end up realizing the importance of the 'Here and Now' and may also decide to 'Baar Baar Dekho' our life to escape or deal with the impending danger of losing out the subtle happiness present in our life.

The story of 'Baar Baar Dekho' hovers around two childhood friends Jai and Diya who are about to get married but are locked up in a dilemma because Jai wants to focus more on his professional life and career. He doesn't want to lose the most cherished offer of pursuing his research on Vedic mathematics in the prestigious universities like Harvard and Cambridge. And he gets more perplexed and finds himself on the crossroads whether to say yes or no to Diya when he receives one such offer from his most liked university and that too a few days before his marriage. Shattered by Jai's reluctance to get married, Diya walks out of her newly bought fully furnished apartment by her rich father Mr. Kapoor (Boman Irani) leaving behind Jai to deal with his dilemma. A drunken Jai wakes up to find himself in a different time zone that is ten days after his marriage in Thailand celebrating his honeymoon with Diya. This leap of time zones continues from 10 days, two years, 16 years and then 34 years ahead.

The debutante director Nitya Mehra along with her writer friends Sri Rao and Anuvab Pal in the haste of telling us life philosophies forgot or may have missed the importance of entertaining the audience by etching out fully each characters in the movie and creating moments and scenes to get convinced to what they want to convey as a message. For instance, Jai doesn't appear as a selfish and self-centered boy, lover and a husband; there are no sufficient family moments to show their relationship turbulence; the parents and friends are having very less role in the whole happenings shown in the leaps of time zones and there is not a single moment of humour in any of the frames. Unfortunately, the most attempted concept of time travel in Hollywood could have been done much better by the team of 'Baar Baar Dekho' which they missed by a whisker. Sarika (Mom of Diya), Ram Kapoor, Rajit Kapur (Pandit), Sayani Gupta (Common Friend) are good in their respective roles but deserved more space in the plot to justify their roles. When Dharma and Excel join hands it's bound to give a damn good look to their movie and we find it here too with fine production values. Ravi K Chandran's cinematography holds your attention and the locations are very beautiful.

Katrina Kaif as Diya Kapoor looks stunning but doesn't look or act differently from rest of her movies. She has a copycat effect which she may need to work on. Siddharth Malhotra as Jai Varma is handsome and is left with no choice but to remain bewildered throughout the movie because of the untimely and unexpected time zone leaps he encounters. He does age because of the expensive and sophisticated prosthetics but could have supported the same by his acting skills which he fails to pay attention to.

In short, Baar Baar Dekho has lessons for life but very little to entertain. Though, the film ends with the already hit item song 'Kaala Chasma' you walk out with a clear lens to revisit your life with a resolve to be worthy of what you have in your life in the 'Here and Now' and live each day at a time. Go and watch 'Baar Baar Dekho' but not 'Baar Baar' only once!

Movie Rating: 6/10

Cast: Sidharth Malhotra (Jai Varma), Katrina Kaif (Diya Kapoor), Sarika, Ram Kapoor, Sayani Gupta (Chitra), Rajit Kapur, Rohan Joshi, Taaha Shah Badusha (Tarun) Genre: Romance Director: Nitya Mehra Producers: Hiroo Yash Johar, Karan Johar, Ritesh Sidhwani, Farhan Akhtar Written by: Anvita Dutt (Dialogues) Screenplay: Nitya Mehra, Anuvab Pal, Sri Rao Story by: Sri Rao Music by: Amaal Mallik, Arko, Badshah, Jasleen Royal, Bilaal Saeed Cinematography: Ravi K Chandran Edited by: Amitabh Shukla Production: Dharma Productions, Excel Entertainment Distributor: Eros International Release Date: 9th September, 2016 Duration: 141 Minutes Language: Hindi

Over exposed costumes of Katrina didn't help this movie.....confusing story line ....

[fillerruth · 4/10 · 9 September 2016]

This is a very important movie for Katrina after Fitoor. "Fitoor" was a disaster and the performance of Katrina was very poor in that movie. That movie was a box office bomb and critically panned. But after that movie, it is very important for Katrina to give a hit movie to the audience. Maybe that's why she choose the very overexposed costume to create some sex appeal. She is not a very good actress but this type of costume does not help dude! You have to choose good story and you have to be a good actress.

This is the story of a couple and the movie is entirely a show of flashbacks and flash forwards. The movie is not a science fiction nor a time travel movie. A Very unusual storyline for a romantic movie. The beginning of the movie is good but after the interval when the twists revealed that was very confusing and the director mix up the emotions and the relation of the couple. Maybe the director confused how he ride the story with a flash forward story.The script and the screenplay were not convincing that's why the problem occurred.

Performance-wise Sidharth Malhotra as Jai was good. Katrina Kaif's costume was sexy but her acting needs to develop. Just some butt shaking dance and overexposed costume do not make you star. Music was average and nothing to shout about. The direction was not good and the script was very choppy and not imposing.

If you are a die-hard fan of Katrina and want to watch some sexy and appealing heroine this is for you. Otherwise not.

Highlight reel: Choices we make, paths we take, words left unspoken

[sesht · 10 September 2016]

Surprisingly, non-mainstream fare. Pleasantly surprised. Well enacted, well packaged, non-conventional fare is getting to be the norm from local fare these days, and that's always welcome.

Quite possibly one of the few polished, technically proficient works out there.

Malhotra has to be appreciated for choosing to work in this and in something like 'Kapoor & sons'.

The background score, along with a few songs on the soundtrack, are well chosen, and extremely pleasing to the ear. This includes the unnecessary end-title track, which is worth sitting thru for.

The music album, therefore, is definitely worth purchasing.

Katrina has definitely improved her screen presence, though she's not more than just another supporting character that revolves around the main lead, with little or no depth for her character's motivations. In fact, there could be an interpretation that could even call her characterization to be regressive, which is somewhat surprising, considering the credentials of the team behind this work.

A few visualizations of the future, are interesting, and do not look shoddy or outta place much, something that's been the morn in most local sci-fi works. That's a huge +,and they keep it simple.

The production design and cinematography also are very pleasing aesthetically, and no frame looks outta place, other than for a few instances when shots are canned within a moving vehicle, that clearly look like they've been shot within a studio.

The penultimate climax was one of the most impressive things about this almost indie like version of the butterfly effect, which is enormously letdown by perhaps one of the weakest endings I've ever seen committed to celluloid.

In something like this, I would have loved it if the supporting characters were given something like depth, but that's where both the writing and the execution more than just falter. 'Happy bhaag jaayegi' and 'Kapoor & sons' both worked better because the writers treated the supporting players with nothing but respect.

Love, is supposed to be something strongly magical/fantastic, and though the chemistry between the leads is palpable throughout, with them even performing decently, the writing fails to evoke the sense of passion necessary for us, the audience, to feel their pain, and root for them, against all odds, in this case, time (or not, depending on how one interprets the finale), and a misplaced sense of priority. The leads love for mathematics, over all else, is also not given enough breathing time for us to buy into his motivation. Or, for that matter, another lead's propensity for art. And, where's the struggle?

Solid actors, nee, thespians, like Ram Kapoor, Rajit Kapur and Sarika are wasted, though their presence is always welcome.

Sayani Gupta, after her fantastic turn in the superb 'Margarita with a straw', is great here as well, but the writing lets her down too.

I usually prefer it if the trailer (https://youtu.be/Wiuj_GHlb64) doesn't give the movie away, but, in this case, the trailer misguided expectations, and the end result, though well executed overall, is ultimately a letdown.

Worth 1 viewing at the local cinema.

Not the greatest movies of all time well not even close to an average movie to be honest

[msaif-06955 · 2/10 · 9 September 2016]

**spoiler alert** The movie starts of pretty nice actually but then starts taking weird turns... It's weird how Jai (Siddharth Malhotra) who is practically a genius and can solve basically anything does not know how to reply when a girl asks you to marry her come on its common sense... and towards the end of the movie he keeps on visiting the same days but still acts like a lunatic even after jumping into the future 4 times... The love part was okay in the end how he realized that life's not only about Maths (Jai is a math professor) its about balance between work and family that's the only thing we learn from the movie.. overall one time watch and mainly for guys who just broke up with their girlfriends it's for them

The Trailer Itself!!

[prateekhemdev · 3/10 · 9 September 2016]

The movie is the worst that is out there in recent times! The poor acting by both Katrina and Siddharth along with the pathetic story line add up to a disaster. The exotic locations and the decent screenplay could not save this work of cinema. I literally was counting every minute of the movie waiting for it to end. Ram Kapoor as Diya's father was good and the songs were decent and of course Kala Chasma was a treat to watch. The direction was so bad that it reminded me of a similar failure ROY. It is high time we as Indian cinema audience grow up from cliché love stories I give it 3 out of 10 and a definite miss and prefer freaky Ali any day over this!

Fits in one time watch list

[kbketanbharadwaj · 7/10 · 10 September 2016]

A good attempt to present an out of Bollywood league love story which majorly covers the after marriage part. A guy travels to future and able to see the crisis those could happen and realizes the things need to be correct in present to stop disasters to happen. you will love the colorful outfits and exquisite locations. Also the screenplay is quite satisfying. Sidharth cozily played his character at various ages with tight grip. Katrina looks stunning and force you to keep your eyes on her charming face and well shaped bally. Movie lags in dialogues and fails to pull out the emotions from your heart. Ram Kappor seems to act over-enthaustic that hardly fits in story line. Music is pleasant and songs are placed at right moments. Nitya Mehra accomplished to present a nice, colorful screenplay. If you like off the road romance then this movie fits well in your one time watch list.

Ek baar dekh lo

[parveenchandra11 · 3/10 · 18 September 2016]

BBD has a few basic elements, which are really rather good:

1) Basic idea is this: "While waiting for the big moments of happiness in life, we miss out on these small moments of happiness" (From Bawarchi, 1972).

2) Time travel/ Groundhog day: Hero goes to sleep and wakes up at consecutively increasingly further out time points in the future (10 days, 2 years, 15/16 years in 2034). At the third one (2034) he realizes he's messed up big, and promises to fix things. Goes to sleep crying, and this time wakes up 10 years before (2023) and manages to make the wrong choices. Next leap takes him 26 years in the future, at the death of his mother. This is the furthest out in time, and he realizes his priorities should be different. Goes to sleep, and wakes up at the only repeat time point (year 2023) - chooses to put his family first, and then comes back to 2016 (the present).

The premise was rather good. I liked the elements underlying the story. The execution was... not so great.

Some points that stuck out for me:

1) The hero is rather taken aback when his girlfriend proposes marriage, and doesn't come back with an enthusiastic enough "yes". It's a scene where we're supposed to empathise with the heroine and pity the hero. He really should've leapt at the chance of marrying KK. why? Everyone has a right to make their own decisions in life, no? If he wants to think about it, let him.

2) All the wedding preparations frustrate the groom (hero) - how selfish and disrespectful of him! (It's rather normal; why paint the poor boy in a bad light because of these small issues!)

And what's wrong with wanting to go abroad for job/education? Our movies would have you believe that you shouldn't venture out because our family and friends are here... Well, a lot many people actually do come back. Nothing wrong with seeing the world a little.

3) In the year 2023, when KK's character reminds her husband that there's a show in the evening, she says something to the tune of how "will you remember?" and "you're useless". Their two small children are running around! And she's supposed to be a good mother? It's the worst kind of parents that paint their spouse in a bad light in front of the kids.

Btw, just fyi, men without full time jobs are 33% more likely to divorce: aka to remain married, the guy needs to be working -- according to a recently published paper (Killewald, ASR 2016); also quoted in TIME magazine (http://time.com/4425061/unemployment-divorce-men-women/)

4) Somebody has a vendetta against maths/logic and mathematicians, and doesn't even know what maths is (more on the second half later). The pandit (Rajit Kapur) says logic doesn't explain what's important in life. Which our poor hero doesn't understand because all he understands is maths! Understanding of maths and relationships/values are not mutually exclusive!

5) Classroom scene in one of the time leaps: a student says that you said you have a solution to Fermat's last theorem, how does this affect bla bla bla. Guess what Fermat's last theorem was "proven" 20 years ago, first valid proof presented in 1994 (only about 350 years after the conjecture was stated). A 5 min googling could've take care of this jarring moment.

6) The H is supposedly a math genius. And the script writers have no clue what that entails.

Being able to find square roots, products of large numbers, is not the same as being able to prove and postulate mathematical theorems and lemmas.

Hero is either a student or professor of mathematics, and apparently he's written a paper on Vedic maths. His appointment to Cambridge is based on that. Quick note on VM: it is a collection of tricks to do mental arithmetic, not what maths is really about. Please look up Quora for an involved discussion on the topic.

A quote from S.G. Dani (http://www.tifr.res.in/~vahia/dani- vmsm.pdf): "lack of adequate attention to academic pursuits... has unfortunately resulted, on the one hand, in a lack of awareness of our historical role in actual terms and, on the other, an empty sense of pride which is more of an emotional reaction to the colonial domination rather than an intellectual challenge. Together they provide a convenient ground for extremist and misguided elements in society to "reconstruct history" from nonexistent or concocted source material to whip up popular euphoria."

And I'm not even a mathematician :|

7) My guess is that this was someone's understanding of Good Will Hunting's ending - that he leaves "maths" to be with the girl... Look at the interview scene (with NSA), it doesn't preclude Will Hunting's working on maths, just not with those guys. And yes, we need to have both in our lives - work and relationships. There should be a balance between the two.

8) One more teensy weensy thing... the futuristic technology... uh... there are driver less, self-driving cars already around on roads (Uber has launched driverless cars in Pittsburg, PA, USA). Various corporations have been testing those for quite some time. It would've been fantastic if could've incorporated that in their futuristic settings. But maybe that really is too much to expect...

Final verdict: Well, this is definitely a movie you can see with your family or friends without blushing! If you're at the mall, and need to go watch something, this ain't a bad choice. Or, skip the movie tickets, go eat out :)

New concept, no-nonsense non-masala movie

[deysauradeep · 8/10 · 13 September 2016]

I can't boast of writing many movie reviews in my lifetime, but the IMDb average rating of Baar Baar Dekho as 5.5/10 shocked me, to say the least.

That this movie got such a low rating in spite of having a new concept and beautiful presentation, is what's absolutely WRONG WITH THIS COUNTRY (and the star reviewers who have no idea of good movies)!

This movie was relatable, and didn't have boring double-meaning poor comedic dialogues. This movie didn't have MASALA and this irked many Star Reviewers who only felt "kala chasma" was the best part of the movie (which explains their poor taste).

I watched this movie with zero expectations, as I never felt Katrina could act well. But, I was pleasantly surprised to see a new side of katrina. She blended in well with the character and there was no overacting, which other bollywood melodramatic crap movies have.

An amazing light-hearted movie with such a good and novel concept, is quite comparable to good Hollywood movies.

We can't always expect an Inception-like movie, but what Bollywood offered in this movie was wonderful.

Something out of the box

[pritsadude · 7/10 · 10 September 2016]

the movie baar baar dekho is doing good in the theatres ...after watching the movie i can say Mr karan Johar has directed in an spectacular. Something to the public of India . Though the concept is kinda unreal of skipping time ...but the way it is been portrayed throughout that is really justified for the viewers to get wat the movie has conveyed. Romantic movie lovers would love it and the songs are awesome and in a nut shell something different and unique is here which should be appreciated.

Shallow, Meaningless drag, torture of 2 hours

[zennirvana · 1/10 · 11 September 2016]

Now, I have seen thousands of movies and this one wins the award for the Worst Movie of All time (at least for last three decades) Script is so poorly written it starts to show of after 7 minutes in the movie. You just can't miss it.

One of the saddest part of the movie is that it JUST DRAGS ... Bringing home a point that one must look at finer, smaller aspects of your family like moments with your kids and spouse, took the Director 2 hours. REALLY 2 hours. Something that a well read Director or story teller can cover in less than 10 minutes!! My 10 year son does a better job in story telling! In particular the issues that I noted: 1. Poor Acting. Almost every second scene in the movie is poorly acted. And the script is so weak that it starts to HURT you. Ex. Head of the department calls Jai Varma from Cambridge and neither explains why Jai has any merit. (Just saying his Vedic Math paper was great!!)

2. Script lacks any thought process or it is so shallow. 3. Why Jai Varma is a maths genius is not explained - I would love to stay in a land where just saying "Mathematics meri zindagi hai" could make someone one a Maths Genius 4. Attention to detail is not something that Karan Joahr and team have even heard of. Surprised to see Excel Entertainment agreed to back this kind of project that lacks an iota of details

How could a Time Travel movie be so lack bland is unfathomable. You will definitely yawn with all Neighbors at the Theatre - that's a promise of the movie.

Not so bad

[marziabilwani · 8/10 · 12 September 2016]

I frankly don't understand why everyone is hating this movie so much. Although the acting by Katrina Kaif isn't very amazing, the film was still fun to watch. Although the ending was a bit disappointing, I think that the first 3/4th of the film was worth watching. Most importantly, the film taught us how we should value the present. Although I initially thought it would be similar to the Time traveler's wife, there was no time travel involved here. Siddharth Malhotra's acting was way better than his other films. He genuinely seemed concerned about saving his marriage.Lastly, everyone who enjoys watching romantic chick flicks should go and watch this movie!

Brave enough to get the Message.

[singla-ankush18 · 7/10 · 12 September 2016]

well well Bollywood is not familiar with such kinda story. but i must say this is a very good attempt, although it is not so much entertaining but you will definitely see a very different type of story with a strong message about life, like your what is more important to you in life. Simply you don't know when your life is over..ENJOY THE EACH MOMENT..Katrina play good role , Siddhartha feel like lost in this movie, do not just see the movie feel it,live it and know, what the director want us to see.overall i will say to you its a one time watch at-least. Songs are good its flows as per the story and there are lots of week points in the movie. Over ALL it is good for one time watch.

Worst movie of all time!!!

[umashankarpati1997 · 2/10 · 11 September 2016]

Baar Baar Dekho Is not at all Baar Baar Dekho😡 Concept was considerable but Poor direction,lack of good direction was the reason behind the movies's failure.👎👎 Acting was Siddharth was good but Katrina as usual bad,but in this movie it was worst. Songs and music is well to do!! Full of complexity.😡 Time travel or THOUGHT TRAVEL to some extent was good but due to stretching it more,the movie became a total mess.👎👎 But to appreciate the climax it was amazing. The last 10 mins of the movie was quite good. So in short this movie is not at all Massy. Limiting only to the limited group of audience mostly to the youngsters. Direction -2* Music-3* Screenplay-2* My Rating 3/10.👎👎

Why put such an experimental movie in these hands

[bollycritic · 2/10 · 11 August 2018]

Baar Baar Dekho could have worked with a great director, strong lead cast and fast pacing. Yet, though Jai's life is flying by him, the speed of the film is painfully slow. Siddharth Malhotra and especially Katrina Kaif are grossly inept with their performances and their attempts at comedy flop as the film can't decide if it wants to be serious, funny or surreal. You need good lead actors to invest in a movie. It has decent set design and that is about it. I had abysmally low expectations for it, but it could not even live up to those.

Movie ko dekhne ka bhi mat socho.

[ankitsaun-thekiller · 1/10 · 10 September 2016]

Oh my god...oh my god...after watching night mare movie A Flying Jatt i never thought there would be a movie worse than that.

But no no no!!!

The movie exists... Baar Baar Dekho is the movie...so disastrous pathetic movie.

Worst acting.. Kamaal Khan(KRK) do better acting than them.

Worst direction, worst screenplay, worst everything

Songs were good Nachde Ne Saare - Baar Baar Dekho was best... yeah the best part of the movie was last part Kala Chashma was awesome..so nice to watch that in big screen.

But Katrina Kaif and Siddharth Malhotra made the movie worst.

I don't know why the Sidharth was a math professor???? I guess director was so confused while making this movie. Movie could be far better, but acting and direction made it disaster. After seeing trailer, i thought its interesting but no it didn't come up

But they managed some how...its still better than FAN. No one can beat FAN.

Ratings :-

A Flying Jatt : -4 Baar Baar Dekho : -4.5 FAN :- -5

Different from masala Bollywood love stories.

[Pramitheus · 7/10 · 13 September 2016]

Truth be said I was nowhere interested to see this movie after watching the trailer because this concept has been done many times and there is nothing new to it. Then came the video song for "Tere Khair Mangdi" and Siddharth Malhotra's expressions hooked me in and I was interested to see whether he has done something different. So I just went it with very low expectations but I thoroughly enjoyed the movie. Now when I came to rate this movie I was shocked to see such a low rating so I think I should give in my input for people who haven't seen it yet. Story wise the movie is what you are expecting if you have seen Hollywood movies where a love-story is mixed with time travel. The highlight of the movie is Siddharth Malhotra. He gives a surprisingly emotional and soulful performance depicting each age in the time-line. The cinematography is brilliant. Every bit of the chaos called marriage is shown brilliantly and the confusion which Sid's character, Jai is having is shown articulately. Now with such amazing direction and camera-work the one who fails and had so much room to work is Katrina Kaif. She is still short on how to emote and she is absolutely not at par with Siddharth. Ram Kapoor and Sarika stroll through their roles. Rohan Joshi gets his Bolly debut. Though a bit stiff, he does his best. My honest suggestion is to give it a watch because it is a refreshing change to the already beaten down formula of Bollywood's take on romance and love.

This movie copied the Adam Sandler's CLick

[Wanderer123 · 1/10 · 26 December 2018]

Watch comedy Click movie rather than this free headache.

Different and definitely fun

[devendratapdia · 8/10 · 14 September 2016]

Title suits perfectly, as character Jai (Siddharth) is given a chance to correct his life in time travel. Something different from regular crappy movies. Definitely watchable, at least once. Loved the technology predictions for future used as part of movie. For Acting, Siddharth has done great job, while Katrina could have improved. Overall its a great learning to take from movie and also a fun watch. Never felt in whole time while watching movie to step out. Songs are well placed. Movie could is kind of faster as it feels small time is given to most scenes in particular age of his, should have been little more. I liked the movie.

A must one time watch.

[im-jst-osum · 7/10 · 10 September 2016]

Baar Baar Dekho is a very good attempt towards making something different. The movie had its flaws but it's sure worth at least a one watch. If you wanna watch something really different in Bollywood, this is the movie for you. Katrina's acting is below average as usual. If there were to be a different actress, the movie would have been slightly better. Siddharth'a acting is very good. The concept is amazing and it's beautifully shown which many would argue. The flaws came in 1. The Make Up - The make up for the futuristic scenes where characters were shows to be old could have been way better. Animation being a little backward in Indian Cinema is still justifiable but make up should have been perfect. That might put you off. 2. The Future - The relevance of future shots was clear in the movie. They were needed. But the way they were shown was not needed. The scenes had ample of useless technological advancement shots which made no sense and seemed very fake. I understand they wanted to show the future as best as possible but the technological advancements were just way over the top. Made the audience even laugh a little and not take the movie seriously. 3. Acting - Katrina's acting is very average. Even below average if you're not a big fan. Other side characters didn't have convincing acting skills too.

Other than all these aspects, it's sure a great attempt and we should all appreciate the movie and enjoy it for what it is. I would give an extra star just for trying to make something different than other Bollywood films. More films like these are welcome in the industry. Maybe someday it'll touch the mark of what good Hollywood movies are like.

Hence, i'd rate it a good 7 out of 10 and a must watch, at least once.

Makes Only Half Good Use Of Its Fascinating Concept!

[namashi_1 · 5/10 · 17 March 2017]

Back To The Future, anyone? Remember how magically that Cult-Classic took us & its lovable protagonist ahead & back in time, only to be delighted with pure cinematic thrill! Director Nitya Mehra makes a similar, albeit limping effort with her well-budgeted feature 'Baar Baar Dekho'. While interesting in parts & made with honesty, the Writing & the Pace are erratic. Lets Continue....

'Baar Baar Dekho is about A maths professor (Sidharth Malhotra), who is taken back & ahead of time, when he backs out of marrying his lady-love (Katrina Kaif). What follows is flashbacks & flash forwards!

'Baar Baar Dekho' begins with genuine promise. The opening credits, which show us how the man & woman met, right from kids to now, is beautifully done. And the pace is decently maintained for sometime, but post-interval, the pace drops. What starts off as an interesting time-travel love-story, suddenly turns into a melodramatic tale, with lesser feeling. And by the time we reach its culmination, we're tired. The Protagonist isn't too bright to begin with, despite being a maths professor, who worships Vedic Mathematics. It literally takes him decades (although days for him), to realize the value of life & his woman. Though at first his unsure nature & his amusement to the unexpected time-travel happenings appear believable, but later-on, he just doesn't seem to get the point & loses our support. Its a rather under-written role, that demanded more depth.

Nitya Mehra's Screenplay is a mixed bag. At times, interesting, and at times, dull. The Writing doesn't make solid use of its fascinating concept & that's disheartening. There was genuine potential here. Mehra's Direction is good, though. She knows the craft of filmmaking well, but as a Writer, she lets herself & us, down after a point. Ravi K. Chandran's Cinematography is marvelous. Amitabh Shukla's Editing needed to be sharper. The film is a bit too long at a 140-minutes! Music by Various Artists is fantastic & the high-point of the enterprise. Art & Costume Design are well-done, while the Make-Up appears fake.

Performance-Wise: Sidharth Malhotra is limited to a few expressions & hence his performance here, is nothing extraordinary. Though very sincere, the actor stumbles in some portions, especially when he ages old. Katrina Kaif looks gorgeous as always & is passable in her part. Rajit Kapur, Ram Kapoor, Sarika & The Wonderful Sayani Gupta, are given too little to do.

On the whole, 'Baar Baar Dekho' is thoroughly watchable, but that's about it.

Loved it!!

[jkt2006 · 8/10 · 12 September 2016]

So refreshing a movie, it was almost a surprise!! To the folks who have dismissed it as a TIME TRAVEL movie have obviously not understood it. It is NOT time travel but mind travel, or, simply speaking thought travel that makes the main character realize the value of his real love and what all he would want out of that relationship. Never in Hindi cinema has this concept been tried. There is no scientific explanation given to the fact as to why and how, and it is not even relevant, IF you try to understand and grasp the story line. Hats off to the new lady director who decided to take this one as a challenge, and has done a brilliant job. Watch this one with your girl/boyfriend, or even family, totally worth your time. I loved every minute of it. The songs and dance sequences are awesome too.

Good Indian Version of Groundhog day..

[mateeq90 · 7/10 · 12 September 2016]

Despite the fact "Baar Baar Dekho" is the remake of Hollywood blockbuster movie Groundhog day but a brave move by the movie maker to put such an experimental movie in Indian cinema. "Baar Baar Dekho" is a twisted movie and very well scripted but for the Indian box office it will fade out because the audience is still not ready for such "Hollywood" standards movies. Indian cinema still works on commercial movies like Dilwale, Rowdy Rathore, Dabang or movies which are full of unrealistic stories with unnecessary songs. So do watch it for a movie that could be much more better in terms of acting and direction but a nice movie for those families which not spend value-able time with each other.

Very very bad movie!

[narulalakshya21 · 4/10 · 18 September 2016]

Once again Katrina shows that she doesn't know acting. People felt into the movie makers' trap by seeing the Kala Chasma song. A very bad movie, not well directed and obviously not well copied. Don't watch this movie as long as no one's paying something you to watch.

On the whole, this movie is not decent enough to watch the first time. Don't waste your money people.

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Go and watch the movie if you are a KATRINA FAN!!!!!!!!!

[Udit-s-s-khuntia · 4/10 · 9 September 2016]

Debutant director Nitya Mehra's Baar Baar Dekho is an 'Ek Baar Dekho'affair. A fresh pairing of good looking actors,exotic locations, good music and a commercial love story is the mainstay.

There are no standout performances, no scenes that can pack in an emotional wallop and the conversational dialogue turns banal beyond a point.Katrina Kaif very consciously focuses on making the audience concentrate on her impossibly well-toned midriff. But she displays no such commitment and motivation towards acting, goes ahead and botches up the emotional scenes and gets way too shrill and hysterical for comfort..

Sidharth Malhotra, so far seen giving performances where his matinée-idol looks obfuscate his other purported virtues, comes into his own with a character who is clueless about the stunning time travel that fate/destiny/karma/kundli puts him through.