Konterr Brilliant and touching

RipDelight This is a tender, generous movie that likes its characters and presents them as real people, full of flaws and strengths.

Ogosmith Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

Calum Hutton It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

PimpinAinttEasy Miss Lovely felt like another Indian film that shows off the poverty and the squalor (nothing wrong with showing off poverty but not at the expense of good characterization and writing). It portrays the low budget horror porn industry as exotic albeit sleazy. The framing and the hypnotic quality of the sound recording left me feeling very distant. The film is up to its neck in sleazeball porn movie industry archetypes - the tough hard drinking director who is at the mercy of producers, the producer/gangster/financier who is ruthless and violent for no good reason, hard drinking vamps who have vicious cat-fights and the one demure and kind hearted actress.Nawazuddin is his usual natural self. Anil George is yet another unremarkable actor who looks gruff and delivers his dialogs in a horrible aesthetically displeasing throaty growl. Niharika Singh was demure and beautiful. But there was nothing in her performance to write home about.And why was everyone mumbling and talking in low voices? It gave the impression that they were all talking behind closed doors or something. I liked the film's message - these desperate misfits/wannabe social climbers with absolutely no future were mere pawns for the powers that be. It is quite well made at the end of the day. But it was hard to overlook the demerits mentioned in the review.

Angelique Parkar "Outrageous" might be the best word to describe this film, characters and all. If you are looking for an outrageous two hours and you aren't easily shocked or offended, this would be a film to watch.Miss Lovely is one rough roller coaster ride and a cocktail of violence, sex and of course movie-making. Although it's more transparent and linear on a surface level, I'm still not sure I've figured out the multilayered, subtexts and film references that lie deep beneath the surface--even though I've seen it a few times now. I definitely can feel the ghosts of lots of cheap thriller and film noir directors, and maybe even some sasta Tamil sex films lurking under the surface. It also reminds me of some Kanti Shah films I saw as a kid. The greatest aspects in the screenplay are in fact the delicious side-chapters that go off from the main story and follow the characters of struggling actress/ escort girl Nadia and fading B-heroine Poonam. I loved these side stories, but I know a few viewers who had a problem with how the film goes following different strands and doesn't just stick to the linear narrative. Miss Lovely sometimes feels a little long and drags in a few places toward the end, but this barely hinders the film in its entirety. I didn't really care - overall and simply put: this movie is COOL! The costumes, the music, the world is amazing!! For someone who is obsessed with the 1980s – specially the crazy hairdos and bras and premier padminis and Nazia Hassan - it's a total joy to watch and you really love to hate some of the offensive characters. Miss Lovely is not a movie that's easy to forget. Ashim Ahluwalia may or may not be a hot commercial property but in my book he's one of the most original directors working in India today.

Eugenia R. Miss Lovely is clearly not for everybody. Plot logic in this film is choppy, sometimes disjointed, sometimes told only in parts. Sensation and twisted psychology matter more than linear storytelling. Mood, atmosphere and sound design fill in he remaining details that the story doesn't tell you. Now, if you are still interested, read on… For me, personally, Miss Lovely is a meticulously crafted aesthetic and political vision, employing a variety of forms/tropes (of artifice) to critique the mode of commercial Indian cinema. If you think about it – it has all the aspects of a classical Bollywood movie (2 brothers, a girl in between them, a love triangle, murder, conspiracy, betrayal, paranoia and a Nazia Hassan song!) – AND YET, it as far from a Bollywood film as you can be. Because, I believe it is a deconstruction of Bollywood, it takes all the elements and rebuilds them from the ground up. It offers another way to make an Indian film – and I'm all the more excited for it. It says (to me) – Indian film doesn't need to be "parallel" (read: village exploitation stories), it can still take all that is familiar and make something totally new and original with it. Much has been written on how great Nawaz is in this film – but that is boring. Let's talk about the other actors. Anil George, for me, was far far better than Nawaz. Playing the heavy, brooding older brother Vicky Duggal, George has screen presence like few actors on Indian screens. He's phenomenally real. Often he doesn't even seem aware of the camera. Next level performance, in my humble opinion. Niharika Singh as Pinky is just terrific as well. A beautifully understated almost non-performance (which, as anyone knows, is still a PERFORMANCE). A distinctive quality of this beautiful, doll-like actress is that no matter how expressive she is, there always seems to be something else going on which we sense but can't know about. The soundtrack and sound design is just terrific – I'm not sure who has scored the film but it creates a dread and tension which has you scouring the corners of the frame for the source of the menace. All in all, not for everyone – but for those who want something new, this is deeply satisfying.

crazyomon Miss Lovely is very different. It takes you to the world never seen before. It engages you, moves you and makes you think. Like Niharika said, you can't forget this film if you've seen with an open mind.Miss lovely is located in mid 80's. It's about two brothers, Vicky Duggal and Sonu duggal who make sex-horror films. They have very different personalities though. There comes a struggling actress, Pinky in their lives. The movie is all about ehat happens next. The C-grade world is captured just perfectly in this film. The scenes, parties and all other things look very real. Performances are raw. And very realistic. You can feel the same as character on the screen is feeling. Nawazuddin is just brilliant. Anil, Niharika, Zeena, Menaka and other actors have done a splendid work too.The direction, the cinematography and the narrative style is very experimental. Must watch for cinema lovers. A movie of this uniqueness is not very often made.