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Ungli punches the system of Maharashtra's State Govt. Especially the corruption in the financial capital of India, Mumbai. A few incidents of bribe, violence, crime are portrayed with Masala which create conflicts.

Dialogues are very poor. The cast was strong, looked above average. Although the plot, topic is about the wrongdoings by the Government servants only in Mumbai, it was necessary to throw light on. However, they couldn't stretch them longer and kept diverging in the middle.

There were lots of mistakes in the movie. Many instances didn't look necessary. A few poor scenes needed to be replaced. Cinematography was extremely poor. Something better could have been made out of this story.

There were turns, tent poles, however, most of them were predictable. I enjoyed the way the movie started, few good scenes in the middle to keep us gripping. Climax was exceptionally amazing, however, if truth be told, not 100% believable. If the system did work like this, they would have changed it already. How come this strong antagonist who had been invincible until now get completely devastated and could do nothing during the climax. The issue with Bollywood over the years has been the same, they don't create a believable climax. They try to destroy the antagonist supernaturally.

'Ungli' has a good premise & to an extent, it does justice to it. But, overall, the Writing Material, despite its noble & genuine intentions, doesn't work entirely. Its interesting in parts, not totally.

'Ungli' Synopsis: A gang of friends decide to take justice into their own hands & turn into vigilantes. Things take a turn when a cop goes undercover to grill them.

'Ungli' makes an honest attempt to take upon the burning issue of corruption that exists in our country even today. The film begins well & the 'Ungli' Gang give us some gripping sequences, but the pace drops as soon as the Cop enters the scene. The second-hour doesn't hold appeal & the culmination looks hurried. Despite a crisp running-time of 113-minutes, 'Ungli' still isn't able to rise above its flaws.

Rensil D'Silva's Screenplay works in bits & pieces. A much tighter second-hour was needed. Milan Zaveri's dialogue, however, are super. D'Silva's Direction is ordinary. Cinematography & Editing are mention-worthy. Music by Various Artists is tuneful.

Performance-Wise: Sanjay Dutt delivers a restrained performance. Emraan Hashmi is sincere, although the length of his role is surprisingly short in the first-hour. Randeep Hooda is ever-effective. Kangana Ranaut doesn't get much to do. She looks gorgeous, though. Angad Bedi & Neil Bhoopalam are fair. Neha Dhupia is passable.

On the whole, 'Ungli' is a half-baked fare.

After a long time, finally Ungli movie has been released. In which we can see little bit younger Emran, Kangna & Hooda. While Sanjay Dutt is looking very old. Neha Dhupiya & Neil Bhopalam (24 fame) are also here. Shradhha Kapoor is in Dance basanti song and Mahesh Manjrekar & Raza Murad have special appearances. This film describes the fight by the Mango People (Aam Admi) to the corruption, directed by Rensil D'Silva. Story is nice and new. Ploting of emotions and songs are also admirable. One of the plus points is dialogues by Milan Milap Zaveri. Some are too funny, while some are having a perfect punch to hit hearts of the audience. Music is cool and listenable. Sachin-Jigar's Dance Basanti is nice. Paakezah is my favorite. Background score is okay. Sanjay has played his character well. Others have small roles or I can say nothing extraordinary. So, all are fine as per the film, not individually. Kangana looks innocent with her curly hair. Emran and Randeep act as usual. Rensil has directed the film nicely. Some point of time, it is little bit slow and boring. Concept is new. Even climax is also remarkable. But, I felt some portions slow. If that portions could have been faster, the film will become a marvelous one. Although it is a nice workpiece, but box-office collections will not be higher than 50-60 cr. I would suggest this film to the youth of our country. It's not a predicting movie, I'm sure you will enjoy it from starting to ending. You will get more than your expectations.

It was Rang De Basanti which ignited the fire within the common man to fight against corruption and turned out to be an event film . UNGLI had all the ingredients that makes it a perfect hard- hitting flick but 2nd half spoils the mood and it is a like a matar paneer without salt.

Plagued by corruption arising in every part of the society, 4 friends form a group called UNGLI to fight against it in their own way.

After bold attempt in Kurbaan , Renzil D'Silva does a fine a job as a director. However the screenplay looses the steam aftermath. The beginning of the film and narration of story of the protagonist is beautifully depicted . The later reel flips and falls flat heavily with unnecessary song and less-impacting climax. Screenplay could have been better. Dialogues are good. Editing required extra effort. Cinematography and art direction is bad. Among the actors, only Randeep Hooda stands out while none could make impact with their performance. Emraan Hashmi is as usual wooden face. It is high-time he should start looking for better roles. Kangana Raunat fails to make impact this time. Sanjay Dutt is OK.

Overall , a very good effort in trying out something different but 2nd half makes it a spoilsport. Average 2/5

The first reaction one has in mind after watching UNGLI is that the film must have been in the making for a long time with certain production issues, as it talks about an already overused theme quite shabbily and has a very uninterestingly executed progression without any great involvement of its writer and director. Moreover it has all cameo kind of appearances of many known names who have nothing great to do in their limited scenes and thus make no impact whatsoever on the viewers in less than two hours of duration including few mediocre songs.

Stating its only merits, UNGLI begins well with a hard hitting realistic scene and then has an innovative animated title sequence featuring a song calling for social awakening through 'A Respected Aadarniye Ungli'. It comes to the point in the first 10 minutes only and therefore raises your expectations with such quick developments on the screen wasting no time on introductions. However a poor item song with a guest appearance of Shraddha Kapoor pulls the film down and then it fails to pick up any further in the subsequent reels offering a pretty stale, outdated and illogical project taking a lot for granted. A love angle (with Neha Dhupia) is inserted in its storyline just for the sake of it as usual and nothing works in the favour of this weak attempt made despite all the good intentions of its socially relevant subject suggesting a revolutionary solution taking the law in hands to fight with corruption.

With an interval at just 55 minutes and a laughable sequence in its climax along with few unwanted songs, UNGLI gives you nothing as compared to the expectations raised in the beginning and one keeps wondering why actors such as Emraan Hashmi, Randeep Hooda, Kangna Ranaut, Mahesh Manjrekar and Sanjay Dutt said yes to the film to play all under-developed characters in only few scenes appearances full of many clichéd moments. The background score & editing tries its best to give the movie some pace. But nothing is successful in hiding the truth that the film had been in the making for the last two years and most probably had gone through many changes and re-touchings too, resulting in a complete 'no-show' in the end to say it all.

So try to avoid UNGLI this week since its nothing but another of those mistakes of a big production house made out of their sheer over- confidence using an in-house team/director trying to take advantage of the present questionable social conditions prevalent in the country.

I didn't really have much expectations of Ungli. The trailers looked okay, but it didn't give much away and didn't really excite me but the film really does surprise and is very much worth the watch. Ungli is all about corruption in India, which is by no means a new story line but its portrayed quite nicely in this film. While there is nothing 'outstanding' about the film, and its not likely to come close to any box office records it's one of those films that is a good family film - without an obvious genre.

Performance wise it's really a group effort. Randeep Hooda has a lot more screen time in the first half, but Emraan Hashmi in the second. Sanjay Dutt is pretty much the main character throughout the film and does a stellar job of a role that is very easy for him. Randeep yet again puts in a brilliant performance and is now such a reliable actor. It's quite clear that he isn't a mainstream hero, but as a supporting actor he is one of the best in the industry. Emraan is his charming self, and it's quite nice for him to do a film which contains no obvious romance. Kangna and the others do well in their respective roles too.

The music is catchy and suits the film well. I'm quite happy that the songs weren't randomly pushed in requiring the actors to actually sing, but more in the background which suited the film. Dance Basanti is very catchy (Shraddha looks fantastic!), Auliya and Pakeezah are both beautiful.

Overall the film is a good watch but nothing amazing. Watch it for Randeep and Emraan.

In Ungli, four friends,instigated by a tragic incident and invigorated with the denial of justice,take law into their hands by turning into vigilantes.This theme might have germinated from Rang De Basanti whose screenplay was co-written by director Rensil Desilva who sensitized us with his recalcitrance in that 2006 runaway hit.The idea might seem interesting, but Rensil offers quite a implausible solution to the mammoth-shaped problem that has plagued our society - corruption.

A crime reporter working for a hotshot TV Channel(Randeep Hooda), a medical intern(Kangana), a techie(Neil Bhoopalan) and a garage mechanic(Angad Bedi)join hands to dispense justice to the common man by taking into tasks the corrupt entities in our system.Together, they form the 'Ungli' gang, a metaphor for 'balls to the inefficient system and law' who punish the corrupt bureaucrats, local politicians, arrogant auto-rickshaw wallas in innovative ways,without being violent.Their masked-vigilantism goes viral with each of their accomplishments being video-taped by themselves and sent to media and grabs everyone's eyeballs causing agony to the police department.Enter ACP Kale(Sanjay Dutt)to nab these 'criminals' before they are idolized like Batman of Gotham city!And soon he realizes that to track them , you gotta think like them.Kale appoints the cop with a notorious streak, Nikhil(Emraan Hashmi) who infiltrates the gang, but later finds himself struggling with the predicament of dutifulness and conscientious action.

Without delving into the details of the protagonists, Rensil who has also scripted the story, takes the narrative at a break-neck speed providing the piping-hot vignettes of the Ungli gang's operations.Though it appears too smooth and simplistic, its the fun and quirk quotient that keeps us hooked.Equally entertaining are the corny dialogues (Milap Zaveri) and witty one-liners which are written only to garner whistles and they are pun-intended when you see them uttered by Hashmi and Dutt. Sample this - When Hashmi's character says to Dutt, "I want you to be back in the business",he retaliates sarcastically "Meri Billi mujhi se miwaaon!" Some of the portions are ignored conveniently, like the budding romance between Hashmi and Kangana and some subplots, like Hooda pursuing the sexy news reporter played by Neha Dhupia,are given too much of importance,ultimately diluting the impact.What goes against the film is the climax which is too convenient for a finale and devoid of an anticipated hard- hitting tone.

The entire cast does a good job here, specially Randeep Hooda who emotes according to the pulse of any sequence.Kangana Ranaut is sadly relegated to the background, and I wished she had a more meaty role.Emraan Hashmi appears too tired and uninterested to be in the familiar character space while Dutt exudes commendable screen presence even with a salt-n-pepper hairdo and drooling eyes.The camaraderie's in the gang is spot-on which adds to the film's strengths.

On the whole, Ungli is a feel-good entertainer which doesn't make you leave the theater with a heavy heart but you will certainly retrospect - wasn't it too far-fetched an idea ! It has got its heart at the right place but finger on the wrong pulse. Rating : 2.5/5

There is no story. It gives feeling of episodic compilation of some common problems, faced by public. No connection between all incidents. Dialogues by Milan Milap Zaveri, are very good. Starting 15 minutes, film sounds good but as it progresses, it takes downward journey only. I support this type of idea or issue based film, so I am positively biased with this type of film and cursing myself to write against it but I am helpless. It is at least better than all that craps who don't have anything to tell and execution remains bad too. Makers believe that a blind person can't recognize anyone because in a scene Randeep Hooda talks to his love interest with mask, even for few minutes but she was unable to recognize him!!? Can Deepawali heavy crackers erupt the road!? This road was erupted in night but remains same in next day being it is very important to one of a powerful person!!? Climax could have been very interesting and innovative but having the germs they could not make it even good. It is bad actually. Everything has taken for granted that this have to happen so it happened. Love interest was not required at all. There are lots of contradiction of the statement and behavior of main characters. They use masks to hide their identity and then also resist a person who does the work like them only and shockingly they were very much concerned about their image, when they are just mask man then if anyone does good job using mask it would have been fine for them. They are not doing a business so they oppose a same stuff doing rival. Few scenes are good but unrealistic. The running in stadium and the traffic police scene are good but again presentation was pushy. Performance wise lots of good actors are nothing to do. Surprisingly Randeep Hooda is very good. Sanjay Datt, Emran Hashmi, Kangana Ranuat and Neha Dhupiya is just OK. Music is good.

I think a lot of persons have blasted this film before actually seeing the film to its end. This film is among the best I have seen and with a powerful message to India as a whole. The message is: We Will Not Stand For Corruption, Give Corruption The Finger(Ungli). Ungli in Hindi translated is finger. So the title of the film bluntly means to show the finger to.

In the film a group of friends join together to fight corrupt persons, whatever their position. Be they corrupt policemen, judges, doctors, civil servants etc., etc., they all pay up in the end. Initially they only planned to do only one act of vigilantism, but they see what their effect to society as a whole on the media. They are seen as heroes in the public's eye and from then onwards they grow from strength to strength till they are known as the "Ungli Gang".

Watch the movie to find out what happens next....

The film boasts an array of Bollwood actors and actresses. Some are still young, some are veterans like Sanjay Dutt, Kader Khan, Raza Murad, Reema Lagoo and Mahesh Manjrekar. We have Emraan Hashmi, Kangana Ranaut, Neha Dhupia, and Randeep Hooda as the younger generation of veteran Bollywood actors. We have a great cast, a great script and wonderful direction by Renzil D'Silva, who wrote the screenplay for films like Aks, Kurbaan, Rang De Basanti and Student of the Year. The background music is also well done. All in all a great film for your DVD/BLURAY library.

Thank you for reading this review. May you live long and prosper.

After a long time bollywood had made an entertaining film on a new concept.It feels true as we all are a part of this corrupt system which has been depicted in the movie.The main question is that who is responsible for this?I think it is among one of the toughest questions which should be debated.Corruption is the most common but very sensitive topic.Rensil dealt with this topic in a very sincere manner.The film never depicts over the top and always revolves around real situations.The screenplay was very slick.It was written very well.It revolved around the common problems we face everyday so it gave a feel of reality.No doubt it contained some loopholes but they could be forgiven as the screenplay was very tight and never let you to blink your eyes.Performance of Emraan hashmi was good.He delivered what he should have done.Randeep was good and his dialogue delivery was really nice.Sanjay dutt looked out of the form and Kangna was like a showpiece.Rest of the cast was average.Music of this movie was disappointing.Except Dance basanti every track was bad.Some dialogues were funny while some where too filmy.Overall this movie is made on a new concept and the concept is universal.A watchable movie especially for youngsters.... RATING : 6.9 out of 10 as the music was too bad

Ungli starts off really well. There is nothing new in the plot. The characters are quite fresh and look appropriate for there roles. The incidents happen quite quickly and you will the movie will be a racy thriller. Sadly, it starts to falter after first 20 minutes and then it just drags along. There is nothing in the movie which takes you by surprise and it becomes quite boring towards the end. Acting wise Randeep Hooda, Neha Dhupia and Angad Bedi have done reasonably well. Emraan Hashmi and Kangana Ranaut are wasted.There was no need for Sanjay Dutt and anyone could have played that role. The songs are not needed and just bore you. Overall, Ungli turns out to be a carbonated drink which fizzes out as soon as you open the bottle !

watch this movie if you literally have nothing (better) to do. Its neither exciting, nor boring. At least it knows that and doesn't stretch for too long like how Hindi movies usually do. There are a few laughs in there but its mostly the audience laughing at the horribly dated dialogs. yecch !! There even exists a love angle between two characters which seems to only exist to give way to a song. and then its gone. wot m8?!

The movie tackles the issue of citizens standing up against corruption in our awesome country. The last time I saw this as a theme was Rang De Basanti and that was a movie that sparked conversation. This leaves nothing with you. But to be fair the movie does point fingers (and about time) at something other than politicians for a change. And it does have some nice moments too.

It was good to see Reema Lagoo and %&$%#@ after a very long time. Randeep Hooda and Emraan Hashmi are good. Sanjay Dutt doesn't bring anything to the table (and the dude looks tired) and I personally have always found Kangana Ranaut's talking very weird (maybe I should watch queen). Did I mention the hilariously shitty dialogs? The Item number is shitty and so is Shraddha Kapoor but at least the song doesn't stretch beyond a minute or two. Neha Dhupia will always have a special place in my hard drive. She always manages to turn me on (call me!). Her acting isn't bad at all but its just that she doesn't have a.. um.. meaty role.

you cant call it good cinema. its entertainment at best and that too mild. A story like this usually makes you think but I believe the movie makers know that the nation has thought about this issue enough and countless times and so it focuses on taking action. sadly its not able to convince the audience that they can do it too. but perhaps thats asking too much.

usually movies suffer from a lack of an interesting ending. But in this case the ending seemed apt. no excitement was necessary and they kept it that way. The title sequence is animated and I have to say it was very slow (slow character animation, lack of camera movement) and boring to someone who notices these things. This is something I've noticed with Indian animation studios as compared to stuff from American studios. my 2 cents on that.

worst part: Dem dialogs (and a particular one delivered by Kangana)

best part: Sanjay Dutt saying "Kaanoon Se Barda Koi Nahi Hota" (or something of that sort)

Honest Attempt... Nicely executed. Superb songs!... Pakeezah one liked the most. Ungli makes a honest attempt to take upon burning topic of corruption. The "Ungli" gang gave us some really good moments in the movie. Feel good movie. Must be enjoyed with family. Family entertainer.