However, Dunki fails to tell a sincere story despite the grave issues it attempts to interact and engage with.

| Apr 23, 2024

After a decade and a half of not really caring and producing the same garbage, [Karan Johar showed] that he can actually do it if he wants to. [On Dunki, Rajkumar Hirani is] so far gone that there’s no redemption possible with any frame in this movie.

| Mar 6, 2024

It’s ultimately because Khan posits himself as an actor who keeps rethinking how he approaches his multiple façades on the screen that makes Dunki worth a watch.

| Original Score: B+ | Mar 5, 2024

It’s possible that director-writer-editor Rajkumar Hirani doesn’t know the difference between empathy and sympathy [we saw enough evidence of it in Sanju (2018)].

| Feb 22, 2024

The movie's slick style undermines the gravity of these later scenes; no matter what time period it's in, it has that same digital, cranked-up, streaming-ready sheen where every welcome blast of color winds up looking like artificial sweetener.

| Feb 16, 2024

Dunki clumsily mixes absurdist comedy with preachy drama in making statements about the dangers of undocumented immigration. Every time a serious life-threatening situation is depicted, the movie then throws in silly jokes for some cheap laughs.

| Jan 7, 2024

In the end, Dunki undermines its own messaging, sandwiching a series of informative cards about donkey flights between a rushed conclusion and comedic coda.

| Original Score: C+ | Dec 29, 2023

Dunki succeeds in creating a complete cinematic experience, laced with broad optimism, as it runs the emotional gamut.

| Dec 26, 2023

“Dunki” manages to combine wish fulfillment and polemic in a warm-hearted package that knows what it wants.

| Dec 26, 2023

Dunki marks an uncharacteristic stumble in Rajkumar Hirani’s illustrious career, lacking the director’s usual brilliance and failing to deliver a compelling narrative despite its ensemble cast and technical prowess.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Dec 26, 2023

Dunki is an over-wrought, over-stretched, over-crowded sample of cinematic mediocrity, marked by clunky writing and puerile politics – an inexplicably incompetent film coming from one of the most successful teams in Hindi film history.

| Original Score: 1.75/5 | Dec 23, 2023

Though Dunki is mawkish and overly sentimental—sometimes to its detriment—it wears such monikers as badges of honour. Throughout each of its 160 minutes, Dunki’s heart remains true...

| Original Score: 7/10 | Dec 23, 2023

Khan takes on a poignant immigration tale with a whole lot of heart that's bound to strike a chord with audiences.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 22, 2023

Dunki, with its laboured storytelling, long humourless stretches of action, and simplistic approach, culminates as an uninspiring collaboration between an actor and a director, both of whom prove to be woefully dated.

| Dec 22, 2023

The 161-minute movie is frivolous about the reasons for widespread immigration from India and shallow about what awaits the Laltu quartet...

| Dec 22, 2023

Shah Rukh Khan’s Dunki was entertaining and the concept was good, but lacked depth.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 21, 2023

Watch the film for its message and for the superb acting display by both Taapsee Pannu, Shah Rukh Khan and the entire ensemble cast.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 21, 2023

A bigger problem with Dunki is that it's also a Shah Rukh Khan film. On paper, he plays the quintessential Hirani hero...the intrusive SRK hero usurps the humanitarian Hirani hero.

| Dec 21, 2023

In the 161-minute run-time of the Rajkumar Hirani film, I was hard put to find anything that made me feel. Even Shah Rukh Khan’s Hardy comes off as working too hard for not enough pay-off.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Dec 21, 2023

Shah Rukh Khan and Taapsee Pannu serve a heartwarming tale that's high on emotions.

| Dec 21, 2023