6.5 out of 10

Rating: 6/10 (2 November 2014)

This is a great family film, it really is funny and fun to watch however I felt that the film dragged on for quite long, this could have been avoided by cutting out some parts, I know Hindi films are known for being really long, but this film could have been less than 2.5hrs. Happy New Year is quite similar to the Hollywood film Oceans Eleven, it has a few themes and obviously the main objective of the characters being the same. All the cast in Happy New Year have acted really well, I particularly enjoyed Abhishek Bachchan and Deepika Pudkone's acting, and I liked SRK putting in the one liners from his previous films. Jackie Shroff was alright I guess, nothing much to comment on his role. I didn't like the songs in the film, but thats my opinion. I don't think this film deserves more than a 7, there was just something missing. Overall,it's a good film and I would recommend watching it at least once.