Thumbs up, by Siddharth Varada, Blogical Conclusion, The New Sunday Express : ...Their story symbolizes the highest point of humanity, with the film showing how the delicate balance between the belief in one’s own faith and the respect for other faiths can be maintained.... full review

Thumbs up, by Subhash K Jha, Bolly Spice : ...We may not find every component of this peace anthem equally harmonious—and Rahman’s atonal Bhajan is the worst I’ve heard in cinema—but at its core this is a work of tremendous integrity.... full review

Thumbs up, by Sahelee Rakshit, Bollywood Life : ...Rajkumar Santoshi and Sunny Deol have made angry cinema together before. Here that anger seems older, wiser and more compassionate. Batwara 1947 may be mounted as a historical epic, but its most powerful message is remarkably simple... full review

Thumbs up, Deccan Chronicle : ...Batwara 1947 is slow, occasionally preachy and technically uneven. But its central idea vividly revolves around grief having no religion, and a mother having no border. The film is less interested in showing Partition only as a story of Hindu-Muslim conflict and more interested in asking what happens when people choose humanity over identity.... full review

Thumbs up, by Simran Singh, DNA : ...Batwara 1947 is a delightful comeback of Sunny-Santoshi, filled with power-packed, emotionally driven moments that will surely leave you in tears. The intent and the content both hit your heart, and it truly deserves a watch in cinemas. Batwara 1947 is and should be enjoyed with family.... full review

Thumbs up, by Devesh Sharma, Filmfare : ...The film may stumble when it reaches for conventional heroics, but its heart never does. And that heart matters. Batwara 1947 arrives at a time when we desperately need to be reminded that the people on the other side of a border are not abstractions. Partition divided a country. Hatred divided human beings. The film’s final image offers a quiet, almost defiant possibility: perhaps humanity can still put us back together.... full review

Thumbs up, by Aakash Kumar, Filmi Beat : ...Batwara 1947 is not a perfect film, but its emotional core and performances make it worth a watch. The second half works better and delivers some genuinely moving moments. The climax will surely leave you teary-eyed. The film talks about Partition, but at its heart, it is about humanity. It reminds us that hatred and violence can destroy everything, while compassion can help people rise above religious and cultural differences.... full review

Thumbs up, by Zinia Bandyopadhyay, FirstPost : ...perhaps that is the film's biggest achievement. It reminds us that some emotions don't belong to a religion. Grief doesn't. Fear doesn't. Loneliness doesn't. The desire to return home doesn't. And neither does the need to be treated like a human being.... full review

Thumbs up, by Rishabh Suri, Hindustan Times : ...The Mirzas, frustrated, try everything they can to make her leave. But Mai refuses, insisting that she is waiting for her son to return. As tensions rise, Yaqoob (Abhimanyu Singh), an aspiring politician, begins to give the conflict a communal colour, further inflaming an already volatile situation. What happens next forms the crux of the film.... full review

Thumbs up, by Anindita Mukhopadhyay, India TV : ...Batwara 1947: The direction Rajkumar Santoshi's direction effectively captures the shared pain of people living on both sides of the India-Pakistan divide. The film underlines how Partition did not simply divide a country. It also separated families and forced countless people to start their lives again from scratch. The core story is strong, and the subject naturally carries considerable emotional weight. The first half works particularly well and keeps the audience engaged. The second half, however, feels somewhat stretched.The direction and editing could have been tighter in places, particularly when the film begins to feel repetitive. There are also perhaps more Sunny Deol action and hero moments than the emotional setting really needs. Some sequences become very dramatic and larger than life, which does not always sit comfortably with the film's more intimate emotional tone. The dialogues have their emotional moments, but some could have been sharper and better suited to the scenes.... full review

Thumbs up, by "Rajiv Vijayakar ", koimoi : ...For Santoshi, this is a grand return to form, a full 22 years after his marvelous Khakee. We can forget all his subsequent aberrations for this superb display of compassionate storytelling with a message. A.R. Rahman’s background score is unshowy. I had to consciously make myself aware of the score to notice and evaluate it, and this is the way such music should be. However, as is the case with him for eons now, his songs do not register.... full review

Thumbs up, by Saibal Chatterjee, NDTV : ...Batwara 1947 makes a plea that we would all do well to heed.... full review

Thumbs up, by Yatamanyu Narain, News18.com : ...To sum it up, Rajkumar Santoshi’s Batwara 1947 may be far from perfect, but its heart is firmly in the right place. In a world fuelled by hatred, violence and religious disharmony, the film arrives as a beacon of light for those consumed by such corrosive emotions. It entertains, but it also leaves behind an important message of peace and brotherhood. Most crucially, it makes a persuasive case for the old warning that an eye for an eye only makes the whole world blind.... full review

Thumbs up, by Sahir Avik D’souza, The Quint : ...Over three decades later, the two have reunited for Batwara 1947, in which Deol is once again the all-powerful man of strength.... full review

So-So, by Bobby Sing, Bobby Talks Cinema.com : ...On The whole BATWARA 1947 neither makes you feel the terror of partition nor the trauma experienced by the people whom had to leave everything and shift th either India or pakistan with their entire family. In the end, I just remains a well-intentioned film with its heart in the right place and nothing more than that.... full review

So-So, by Pranati A S, Deccan Herald : ...Batwara 1947 is a film with a timely message, but one told through an outdated cinematic vocabulary. Read more at: https://www.deccanherald.com/entertainment/batwara-1947-movie-review-timely-message-outdated-style-4111299... full review

So-So, by Ria Sharma, Free Press Journal : ...Batwara 1947 has all the ingredients of an emotional Partition drama - action, family drama, patriotism, emotions and a strong central conflict. The performances, especially by Sunny Deol and Shabana Azmi, keep the film going.... full review

So-So, by Nitin Jain, Glamsham.com : ...The music and lyrics pass muster but do little to enhance the proceedings. They neither disrupt the narrative nor add much to its emotional impact, making them largely incidental to the experience.... full review

So-So, by Sana Farzeen, india today : ...The irony is that Batwara 1947 is terrific as a text. Adapted from the play Jis Lahore Nai Vekhya, O Jamya E Nai, the writing has ideas, the conversations have weight, and the central metaphor is powerful. But cinema needs emotional texture, lived-in relationships and performances that make you believe in the people on screen. It has all the right things to say but doesn't know how to, and that makes this potentially moving story feel surprisingly cold.... full review

So-So, by Mayank Shekhar, MiD DAY : ...This is a counterpoint in the heat of civil war over batwara, as it were. You gotta honour the intentions, sometimes. These are also those times. That’s quite separate from whether a film feels engaging enough, though.... full review

So-So, by Sameer Ahire, Movie Talkies : ...Nevertheless, Batwara 1947 is definitely a good watch. You might have missed dropping tears in the cinema hall this year, so here's your chance. "Maa ki seva se bada koi karm nahi, aur Insaniyat se bada koi dharm nahi" and "Maa ko majhab me mat baato, Maa khud ek majhab hai," are definitely the most powerful statements made by any Bollywood movie this year.... full review

So-So, by Isha Sharma, NewsBytes : ...Batwara 1947 blooms during its evocative scenes of communal harmony. Its muddled screenplay, though, tests your patience, and Santoshi never allows the characters to breathe properly. The film asks: What does home really mean? And who should have the power to decide it? Ultimately, the drama might not be perfect, butdeserves to be watched for its performances and timeless, resonant themes.... full review

So-So, by Aishani Biswas, Outlook India : ...Anyone drawn to stories about communal harmony, or curious about how Wajahat's stage classic translates to the screen, will find enough here to justify a watch, provided expectations are calibrated for a film that reaches further than it can grasp.... full review

So-So, by Deepa Gahlot, Rediff : ...Santoshi reduces the story to a collection of slogans, though Sunny Deol should be given credit for handling the lowkey moments as well as the bombastic scenes with aplomb.... full review

So-So, by Nandini Ramnath, Scroll.in : ...Zinta is a particularly lively presence, a more full-bodied character than the one-note Sikandar or the persistently hammy Abhimanyu Singh. As the passive and yet poignant Durgavati, Shabana Azmi packs a punch.... full review

So-So, by Anuj Kumar, The Hindu : ...While Santoshi occasionally compromises the narrative with a cartoonish villain and larger-than-life action blocks, the Sunny-Shabana symphony and the film’s core message remain deeply impactful.... full review

So-So, by Dhaval Roy, Times of India : ...Though Batwara 1947 has its moments, its uneven treatment and overstretched narrative dilute the impact of its powerful message.... full review

Thumbs down, by manjusha Radhakrishnan, Gulf News : ...Batwara 1947 didn't need to manufacture emotion around that tragedy. It needed restraint, complexity and characters who felt like flesh-and-blood people rather than representatives of ideas. Instead, its great love for drama becomes almost scary. The movie has so much to say about humanity that it barely gives its humans room to breathe.... full review

Thumbs down, by Shubhra Gupta, indian express : ...The message is loud and clear: no religion is evil, only humans are; nafrat can be conquered through pyaar, siyasat se mazhab ko na milao; and above all, maanvata se bada koi dharam nahin. But they come as a listicle, instead of making you feel.... full review

Thumbs down, by Uday Bhatia, Live Mint : ...The Pakistan of Santoshi’s film is too removed and too vague to speak to the India of today. “No religion is bad,” Habib says. “Good, bad, that’s people.” Batwara so wants to be praised for its noble intentions. Myself, I’ll take mixed intentions over safe nothings.... full review