Haseena Parker

#HaseenaParkar is a decent film, Shraddha Kapoor performs well, in a de-glamorized role. But the film attempts to show her as a victim of circumstances, not as a criminal. Seems she is being harassed just because she is the sister of the "most wanted" Bhai. She is always supportive of his actions n refuses to believe that he would try to destroy a city where his own family resides. Ankur, who plays her husband, also performs well. Hope to see more of this actor. Siddhanth is good as the deadly Bhai. The locations look authentic. Rating 2.5/5.

Good acting by shradhha, avoid other reviews who says its worst acting.

Where the movie begins with a courtroom drama with flashback versions of the main story. Right from the first scene, the entire courtroom drama is jarring, clichéd and baseless. The lawyer despite of not having a single witness keeps arguing for hours and screams on top of her voice. These scenes are worst scenes of the film where a courtroom drama seems like a TV news channel's breaking story. There are some light moments related to Ankur Bhatia which fails to go with the flow of the film. Siddhant Kapoor's entry into crime world is shown in flashes and it's left on the audience to remember his character from all the movies we have seen in the past (Shootout At Wadala, Once Upon A Time In Mumbai, etc). The story fails to grab your attention and keeps wobbling at every level. Ankur's assignation scenes, police interrogating Shraddha, Shraddha's humiliation, her son's track and such scenes are forcefully stretched to the fullest only to make you feel the pain of her character. The second half starts with the super slow narration. The pace of the film suddenly drops as Shraddha starts aging. It was tough to decide that what was more lethargic - her dialogue delivery, background music or the minimal screenplay happenings. The transformation part was all of sudden and lacked the conviction factor. Shraddha's family members get happy when she fires someone or tries to show her power. On the positive side, Siddhant's fight scene along with his initial bonding scenes with Shraddha are decent among the worst. The transformation of Shraddha, from a naive girl to a powerful one is bit interesting. Besides, these few tiny scenes there is nothing much worth cherishing in this over glorified drama. The dialogues are horrible. There is a scene in which a goon tells to a prostitute 'Agar main Tamara Saab baat manga, to tum Mari izzat karna band kar dogi'. Well, that's the caliber and the mind- set of this film. The cinematography is decent and has nothing much to boast.

Director Apoorva Lakhia made a good gangster drama 'Shootout at Lokandwala' and thus one does expect him to deliver a decent film this time. Sadly, he ends up making a melodramatic film, which in order to glorify these criminals, ends up mimicking them. There is no soul in this film. The narrative pattern is outdated and courtroom drama scenes were lower than the standards of all the b- grade crime based shows on T.V. On one side you show Haseena as Dawood's sister, but in the entire film, there is not even a single verbal mention of the name Dawood Ibrahim. This is the level of our so called bio-pics and we try to compare films like 'Daddy' to web series like 'Narcos'.

Shraddha Kapoor tries hard to slip inside the skin of her character. She mildly succeeds, but fails majorly. Her mumps type face looks terrible. It's so bad that the moment she starts talking you will feel that the stuffed cotton inside her face might fall out. Siddhant Kapoor displays the weakest Dawood Ibrahim even seen in our Hindi films. The short height, beard looks resembled Shakti Kapoor and Rajpal Yadav more than Dawood Ibrahim. In the second half of the film, all of sudden he starts calling Shraddha as beta and that's when you have an unintentional laugh. Ankur Bhatia looks decent, but hardly has any role to perform. Priyanka Sethia as the screaming lawyer will make blood come out of your ears due to her shrilling voice and irritating melodramatic performance. Every dialogue of her reminds you of those popular T.V hosts saying 'Gaur Se dekhiye ISS shakes KO..'. The actor who plays the role of Judge in the movie keeps smiling even in the intense scenes.

I always hated Shootout at Wadala but D-Day was a good Dawood Ibrahim film. If Apoorva Lakhia wanted to make something about Ibrahim's sister, mind as well convert it into an Amazon Prime TV Series and help people save their pocket allowances.

So Haseena Parkar a.k.a Papa is Dawood Ibrahim's older sister and unfortunately I don't want to explain more about the cringe worthy plot so thank you.

Quite frankly, this film undoubtedly sucked eggs in different ways to cook it but this one was underdone completely. The film had no novelty in it and the gripping factors that were meant to be in a gangster film were so low.

The clichéd direction and the abominated cinematography brought the film down. If you picture yourself watching this film thinking that you might get an inside scope of Haseena Parkar, all you're doing is wasting time.

Most of the film takes place in the courtroom which becomes a snoozer

The acting in this movie was absolutely atrocious to say the least.

I don't understand if Apoorva Lakhia thought that casting Shraddha Kapoor to play Haseena Parkar would be a fantastic idea. Unfortunately, Lakhia was phenomenally stupid at doing so. Her performance was like on a repeat towards what she gave in OK Jaanu and Baaghi.

Siddhant Kapoor was also a total abomination and who'd ever though that he could fit Ibrahim's part in the film. Well, the size was too small and out of stock.

The music was horrible. Sachin-Jigar, what were you smoking while you guys were composing you're music especially what you did to Gentleman.

Overall, this movie was crap. Right from the script to the acting to the music to the cinematography to everything. My advice to all the crazy movie goers like me, anyone craving for a Dawood Ibrahim film should make their way to their local DVD stores instead of the theater and purchase yourself a Blu-ray of D-Day because it is money well spent.

1.5/5- You people give this genre a bad name.

Replace the lead with Vidya Balan and u have a 8 star movie. This is how bad the acting was. Dont know y the director couldnt see this from the start. Shraddha kapoor coudnt do justice to the character. the role was so strong and it needed a great deal of awesomeness in acting.