Mohalla Assi

We talk about culture and our heritages, we talk about our great past but when it comes to movies like these which show us the mirror, what we have become and where we are leading, we start looking on the other side. This film shows how India has changed in just a decade or two. And it all happened so fast that we just could not find a balance.

Mohalla Assi might not be a technically great film, it might not have best of the actors or direction but it conveys what it intends to. It raises few very pertinent questions about social structure, culture, greed, religious sentiments and most importantly about human behavior.

Watch it. Offer it your time. Taste this part of India. You will not be disappointed

It's a film which shows you reality about our religion , politics & society . Picturisation of kashi looks real .Background score is good . all characters are given ample space & they prove themselves.. sunny deol portrays very confidently role of Panda & In last emotinals scenes are MindBlowing.. Sakshi played a housewife role convincingly just go for it then decide

This is a fantastic adaptation of Dr. Kashinath Singh's satire "Kashi Ka Assi". Well directed. The performance by each and every actor is very relatable to anyone who is familiar with the tradition Brahmin sections of India. One quote got stuck in my mind - "in past we used to have Bazaar's in our communities, now the each community is struggling to to breathe in the global Bazaar(Marketplace)". This one quote reflects the struggle each Indian is facing in preserving our traditions and fulfilling our aspirations. India is no more a country where its tradition and rituals get patronage of the rich, unless it becomes commercial. This has become a land where a learned priest who follows all the tenets of his religion is poor while a half baked guru peddling nonsense is rich with money and millions of followers.

Sunny Deol, the action hero as we know him, has delivered a perfectly controlled and superb performance. The supporting cast of Sakshi Tanwar, Ravi Kishan and the rest are equally good.

This is a must see, and is sad to see not one review for this movie on IMDb, while the mindless action films like Dabbang get hundreds. This is exactly what this movie is about - the modern Indian does not care about his society, its traditions and culture.

Wish to see more movies like this one.

When the trailer came out I was pretty disappointed and expected it to be another PK, a forced comedy at cost of ridiculing one religion. I still watched the movie for Chandraprakash Dwiwedi since I consider him to be a non commercial director who gave us Chanakya and he did not disappoint.

The movie turned out to be entirely refreshing experience.

Sunny Deol lives with his wife on a hand to mouth existence in Benaras because he does not want to compromise on his values.

He sees people giving in to their aspirations and leading a better life and one day is compelled to take the same route when he decides to move with times.

But you cant suppress your inner soul and one day he returns to his original faith and finds peace.

Don't want to give out details of story since its not yet released but would surely call this Sunny Deol's best performance till date.

There is nothing in the movie that mocks any religion and the scene where lord Shiva abuses Sunny Deol is in a different context altogether and very very relevant, in fact one of the finest scene of the movie.

Hope it releases one day and when it does, don't miss it.

------- Mohalla Assi : review

Kashi Ka Assi, a no-holds-barred, insightful take on a Varanasi locality seen through the prism of India's political and economic churn in the 1990s.

the movie will make you laugh out loud at times and then make you feel very emotional and attached.

The movie will take you down the road of how our culture was, and what changed it in a way.

Movie that portrays the real face of Benaras and life of Ghat.

Overall Movie is very good but will not do well at the box office due to poor promotions.,, even maker did not promote the film..

Performance wise Sunny Deol is good & Shashi Tanwar and ravi Kishan did well too.