The Archies

Frankly speaking never liked Zoya Akhtar. She is really overrated. She copies everything and makes it worse. Coming back to Archies, calling it a movie is pure waste of my breathe. Actors are pathetic, there is no story. Same old cliches. Super rich trying to understand Poor's plight. Lol. This whole movie is a joke, and the joke is on them. Oh I forgot, it's a launch vehicle. But it launched them right out of the galaxy...Suhana Khan is really boring and bad actor. LA me kaise padhaya re acting. Other two are slightly better than her but that doesn't say anything about bad acting. Please do not watch this cringe fest !

What a horrible one this was. Wanted to just abandon the movie mid-way. Poor direction, poor storyline, poor acting. The actors didn't even look good. Their accents were funny. Seems like Zoya Akhtar made this movie just for a few Bandra houses. Amitabh Bachchan's grandson is not hero material at all. Suhana Khan didn't fit well. She is similar to Swara Bhasker. Rich roles won't suit them. Khushi Kapoor looked funny. Other actors looked plastic. Wasn't able to find one thing to praise in the whole movie. Maybe some other director could've saved the film. The casting too was poor. All that hype and promotion came down to nothing.

I'm sorry what? If they wanted an Indian adaptation they could've done a simple believable story. It started with a such a ridiculous self effacing colonialism loving bootlicking concept. Its so tone deaf they have no idea people are reclaiming their lands, their origins and a story which makes half Indians half colonizers look superior and unique, is not going to fly well with the audiences. This is neither for Indians, nor NRIs nor the International audience who will be absolutely clueless because they have been brought up on slumdog Millionaire and will consider this a wannabe project. It makes its proximity to whiteness as a USP and is a leap ahead of something Karan Johar would make. Again self effacing as can be. I have to say I like Suhana Khan's debut a lot. Nothing against her she looks like a beautiful humble girl, a really promising actress and really believable for this role. I think she is meant for much grittier cinema. I am so excited for her future she has her dad's easy charisma and relatability but this show is not it. Wish her the best and would love to see more of her in future.

The first 15 minutes of the movie itself were so cringeworthy that it spoiled the whole mood and left a bad taste over the entire film.

Bollywood makes a thousand times better musical movies than Hollywood. Who in the world thought it would be a good idea to make a musical like Hollywood but in Hindi/Hinglish?!?

The movie is set in 1960, and there are barely any old white people in the film, considering we are dealing with Anglo Indians, so where are their British grandfathers and grandmothers? Don't tell me all left! And there are so many white Indian kids, but barely any older British people around?

English music is clearly from the 60s, but the Hindi music is straight from crappy autotune 2023 Tiktok generation!? The only good song comes at the end of the movie, which is by Arijit. They missed the perfect opportunity to have classical music, which was culture back in the day. The whole film should have been in English rather than in Hindi/ Hinglish. I don't know why, but it felt like it was not made for an Indian audience, and I live in Canada. I'm Canadian-Indian, even I couldn't relate.

The amount of money it went to make this clearly shows how good the cinematography looks, especially because of Zoya; she's a fantastic Director with her excellent camera work, but the movie itself is cringe. I feel bad for Suhana because I was looking forward to seeing this; all the actors did an "OK" job. I cannot say everybody was amazing because the movie itself is below mediocre, and it's filled with bad writing(dialogues).

Conclusion: don't fix something that's already perfect. This could have been a fantastic film if they had filmed this like a normal Bollywood movie, which is basically a musical. Hands down, Zoya's worst work.

Suhana and Khushi's acting was just off. Their dialogue delivery was just bad. A lot of awkward pauses. I don't think Suhana had that Veronica energy at all. I felt KUSHI needed to loosen up a bit. Actually loosen up a lot. They did the musical part fine but their scenes were just super awkward. I thought Aditi Dot/Ethel acted well. Jughead, Archie and Reggie were fine too, but it was rough watching Suhana and Khushi.

The movie could have benefited from replacing SUHANA and KUSHI. Their casting felt forced. Zoya could have changed it up a bit.

The movie itself was not bad for Archie Indian adaptation, but Ronnie and Betty's acting had the quality of an Indian school annual day skit.

Not quite the quality one would expect from a Bollywood movie.