Naam Shabana (2017)
Naam Shabana' is a story of young college student Shabana Khan (Taapsee Pannu). Shabana's best friend Jai (Taher Shabbir Mithaiwala) loves her and proposes her on a date. While returning back Shabana and Jai are eve teased by some hooligans, which leads to a fight between them and in that fight Jai gets killed. Shabana tries her best to get justice, but fails miserably. At that moment she receives a call from Ranvir (Manoj Bajpayee), who claims to be a part of a powerful government based organization and promises to help Shabana find Jai's killers. In order to share the information, Ranvir also strikes a deal with Shabana, where she has to join their organization. Shabana agrees and thus starts the making of a spy..
Rating: 2.5/5
Naam Shabana falls short of becoming a la Baby. A tepid script makes this film a strictly a average watch. Yet, for Taapsee’s effortless act a 2.5/5 for this!.
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Rating: 3/5
So, if you're up for a flick about a lady agent kicking serious behinds, this could float your boat. Even otherwise, it's worth a watch..
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Rating: 2.5/5
Watch Naam Shabana purely for Taapsee Pannu’s fine performance and Akshay Kumar’s enjoyable cameo, and also if you loved Baby too much. Just don’t go into theatre expecting another quality stuff like Baby, even if the movie forces us to draw compari.
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2.5
Bollywoodlife.com
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Rating: 3/5
On the whole, NAAM SHABANA is a well-made thriller with two contrasting storylines in the film’s two halves playing the spoilsport. However, given the strong brand value of BABY, decent interest quotient and lack of opposition at the Box-Office, will wo.
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Bollywoodhungama.com
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Rating: 1.5/5
Skip the film if you want to watch it for Neeraj Pandey’s previous filmography. Naam Shabana is nothing like his other films..
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1.5
Hindustantimes.com
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Rating: 2/5
This isn't a one-woman show. Shabana's cocky senior Ajay Singh Rajput often takes the spotlight away from her. The character is after all played by a much bigger star. Granted that Naam Shabana takes a risk by building an action-packed tale around a woman.
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Rating: 1.5/5
Naam Shabana leaves you with a niggling question: why create a heroine in the action hero mode, with both mind and heart, and then give her a big bro to ‘help’ her out? This results in second-guessing your biggest asset, wondering if she is a liabilit.
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1.5
Indianexpress.com
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Rating: 3/5
Taapsee delivers some knockout punches and is sincere enough. Manoj is brilliant, though he has just dialogue-baazi and no action to support him. As for Akshay, he is happy to lend his superstar-presence and bask in the girl power. So go ahead and salute .
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Timesofindia.indiatimes.com
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Rating: 2.5/5
Naam Shabana' is not name worthy enough to match up to the potential of 'Baby'. It has some brilliant fight scenes and good performance along with a lost opportunity..
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2.5
Indiaglitz.com
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