Student of the Year
- 2012
- Accord parental
- 2h 26m
IMDb RATING
5.3/10
22K
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Several alumni reminisce about their final year at St. Theresa's College and the events that shaped their lives.Several alumni reminisce about their final year at St. Theresa's College and the events that shaped their lives.Several alumni reminisce about their final year at St. Theresa's College and the events that shaped their lives.
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- 10 wins & 42 nominations total
Prachee Shah
- Mrs. Shah
- (as Prachi Shah)
Maninee De
- Geeta Singh, Abhimanyu's Aunt
- (as Manini M. Mishra)
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You work hard all week so that you can enjoy your weekend, with anticipation that a good movie will make all the hard work worthwhile. But then life produces people like 'Karan Johar' to keep reminding you that not every Friday night will be fulfilling. After watching SOTY I felt like watching a good movie (at least twice) to completely erase from my memory the 3 hrs of non-sense I had to go through.
SOTY is everything that is wrong with today's bollywood movies. After watching the way people have acted in the movie, I could bet 'Justin Bieber' could have done a better role than these newbie's :-P. SOTY tries to capture the friendship among two friends in a college who... fight over one girl, duh! There is absolutely no chemistry between the friends or the couples. The two new heroes have tried their best to make their friendship look good, but I would say their friendship is more of a sunken-ship. It never even comes close to the chemistry friends share in 'Dil chahata hai' or 'Aisha' or 'Zindagi Na Milegi Doobara'.
The new heroine is like a doll, whose face has been painted white. There's something weird about the girl's face that looks extra (Photoshop) white than it should normally be. Of all the actors, Rishi Kapoor is the only one who stands out being soundly suitable and interesting for his role.
I felt the movie lost connection with the Indian audience when they started showing foreign things in the movie, like college arranging prom nights and triathlon. Then there are scenes where people start getting emotional for things that don't concern them and not to mention the half a dozen songs squeezed into the movie, on top of that half these songs are remake of old Hindi songs. This movie lacks innovation, acting, good story or a good casting.
My suggestion: All those who plan to watch "Student of the Year"... change your plans!
SOTY is everything that is wrong with today's bollywood movies. After watching the way people have acted in the movie, I could bet 'Justin Bieber' could have done a better role than these newbie's :-P. SOTY tries to capture the friendship among two friends in a college who... fight over one girl, duh! There is absolutely no chemistry between the friends or the couples. The two new heroes have tried their best to make their friendship look good, but I would say their friendship is more of a sunken-ship. It never even comes close to the chemistry friends share in 'Dil chahata hai' or 'Aisha' or 'Zindagi Na Milegi Doobara'.
The new heroine is like a doll, whose face has been painted white. There's something weird about the girl's face that looks extra (Photoshop) white than it should normally be. Of all the actors, Rishi Kapoor is the only one who stands out being soundly suitable and interesting for his role.
I felt the movie lost connection with the Indian audience when they started showing foreign things in the movie, like college arranging prom nights and triathlon. Then there are scenes where people start getting emotional for things that don't concern them and not to mention the half a dozen songs squeezed into the movie, on top of that half these songs are remake of old Hindi songs. This movie lacks innovation, acting, good story or a good casting.
My suggestion: All those who plan to watch "Student of the Year"... change your plans!
Student of the year. Or, Disaster of the year.
I am still in shock trying to recover from the fact that this crap is directed by Karan johar, the same director who made one of the legendary in bollywood "Kuch Kuch hota hai". I am observing all the movies directed by Karan Johar. Usually we say with experience comes perfection, but in his case we see less and less perfection and more blunders as he directs more. But with this movie he reach his limit. The Film board should strip him of his directing license.
Yes, the film might do good in box office. But the sole credit goes to the new debutantes and Karan Johar's past fame.
Here is my review
Script(Story) - there was none, Directing - I would like to believe there was no director, Editing - A series of disastrous clips glued together, Acting - Okay, Songs - Great, Screenplay - Mildly Okay, Choreography - Okay, Climax - I didn't get any orgasm
What you get out the movie?
You get to watch two gorgeous hunks fighting, their bromance and one tag-along beauty doing all sorts nonsense.
I am still in shock trying to recover from the fact that this crap is directed by Karan johar, the same director who made one of the legendary in bollywood "Kuch Kuch hota hai". I am observing all the movies directed by Karan Johar. Usually we say with experience comes perfection, but in his case we see less and less perfection and more blunders as he directs more. But with this movie he reach his limit. The Film board should strip him of his directing license.
Yes, the film might do good in box office. But the sole credit goes to the new debutantes and Karan Johar's past fame.
Here is my review
Script(Story) - there was none, Directing - I would like to believe there was no director, Editing - A series of disastrous clips glued together, Acting - Okay, Songs - Great, Screenplay - Mildly Okay, Choreography - Okay, Climax - I didn't get any orgasm
What you get out the movie?
You get to watch two gorgeous hunks fighting, their bromance and one tag-along beauty doing all sorts nonsense.
I don't understand why people generally gave a thumbs down to this KJo film. Either they didn't get the film or they expected too much.
Okay this film was nowhere near Noble nor had great anything, but what the film has is entertainment. Come-on guys..we all live in real world with real characters with all real. In film we look for entertainment. This can be shown by many ways.
I liked the film very much. The actors acted well. Well here nothing is real. Most of the things are stupid but I like something that I don't see regularly. In those 2.5 hours I need entertainment. I watched the film in theatre , I liked it then and after watching lots of time I like it now. Best of KJo after MNIK.
Not a bad film but a great film. Good time pass. Songs were great and chemistry of Varun, Sid n Alia
Firstly only barring a couple of actors, none of the actors in the movie looked like students. Secondly i could not believe that the movie was set in India. India does have some good schools but this school was really a fantasy.. Talking about the actors the boys were okay in the movie but alia bhatt was there just like a fluff piece in the movie... The songs were good but should not have been a part of the movie coz they only made the movie more long and much more unbearable.... I did have a couple of laughs but they were too far apart... Some advice for Karan Johar - Please make more realistic movies and stop making fairy tales... SOTY was a waste of time and money.
Did you know
- TriviaSana Saeed returned to films with Student of the Year after a break from Bollywood. She was best known for playing Shah Rukh Khan's onscreen daughter in Kuch Kuch Hota Hai (1998), which was also Karan Johar's director debut.
- GoofsDuring the song Ishq Wala Love, when Varun asks Alia whether they should go to temple, his hand is on her arm, but suddenly in another shot it isn't there.
- Quotes
Rohan Nanda: I have done the mistake of being friends... so now I won't let the chance of being enemies go by
- ConnectionsFeatured in C.I.D.: Raaz Heroine Ki Maut Ka (2013)
- SoundtracksRatta Maar
Written by Anvita Dutt
Performed by Vishal Dadlani, Shefali Alvares
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $670,086
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $326,508
- Oct 21, 2012
- Gross worldwide
- $10,113,993
- Runtime
- 2h 26m(146 min)
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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