Not awful........ neither impressive........

Rating: 5/10 (27 December 2014)

If you're an avid viewer of Bollywood movies, you'd naturally anticipate revenge and romance in the regular commercial movies. The story of "Happy New Year" also does revolve around the revenge of the hero and a brief romance; but the thing more in this movie is a scheme on heist. The scheme isn't very different from the popular Hollywood action flick "The Italian Job" in which a group of five with different capabilities plan a heist. The scheme of "Happy New Year" consists of many improbabilities and many unlovable characters. The stunts are unbelievable, characters are a bit card board, and the film stretches on and on. Had the film focused on the heist only, the film could have been a tight entertainer though a copy of a Hollywood movie. The biggest flaw of the film was the very regular type cast characters, like Deepika Padukone, Abhishek Bachchan, Jackie Shroff, or Shahrukh Khan himself. The characters and their jokes or emotions don't offer much of novelty. Despite this, the film remains partly watchable for the nice flow maintained in the story and nice songs and dance numbers. Anyway, this is not a movie I would love to watch again.
Rating: 2 stars out of 4