The Shaukeens (2014)
Shaukeen movie is the remake of Basu Chatterjee's 1982 hit of the same name. Anupam Kher, Annu Kapoor, Piyush Mishra and Lisa Haydon play the lead roles in "The Shaukeens", while Abhishek Bachchan, Kareena Kapoor, Michelle make special appearances. Akshay Kumar is playing the role originally played by Chakraborty, and is playing as himself for the first time in his acting career..
Rating: 1.5/5
how much crassness can be stuffed into a film? After its third mention, I stopped counting the times ‘tharki’ and ‘buddhas’ were said in the same breath. -.
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1.5
Indianexpress.com
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Rating: 3/5
Yes, there's a child in each 'oldie', waiting to get out. And the inhibitions should stay 'zipped-up'. But hey, who doesn't want one last fling? It's gen-'ex' after all..
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Timesofindia.indiatimes.com
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Rating: 1.5/5
The Shaukeens is a lame, dunce, dis-satisfactory and a stupid film at its core that is so tedious and flat that you almost abhor your time at the cinema. If you can tolerate 30 minutes of Akshay Kumar making fun of himself and his colleagues by making fun.
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Rating: 1.5/5
The leading lady of The Shaukeens ditches her boyfriend because, in her words, "he made fun of my creation and called it stupid and obnoxious".
That is it: those are the very adjectives that would best describe this unfunny, eminently avoidable film..
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Rating: 2/5
Watch this if you are a fan of Akshay Kumar and can turn a blind eye to some blatant objectification of women.
Box: Out Now.
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Rating: 2/5
Whenever Akshay appears on screen, The Shaukeens transforms into another movie -- one that's substantially more comic, cheeky and winsome -- it's the one I enjoyed the most, it's the one I wished I had come to see..
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Rating: 3.5/5
On the whole, THE SHAUKEENS is a full on Bollywood entertainer that you wouldn't want to miss..
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3.5
Bollywoodhungama.com
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