Do Patti
Uday Bhatia
Mint Lounge
Two for sorrow

A tepid thriller, starring Kajol and Kriti Sanon, from a writer who needs to branch out

Do Patti begins with scattered shots of paragliding gone wrong and a stakeout on a bridge, followed by a woman in a police station telling the cops her husband tried to kill her. Phir Aayi Hasseen Dillruba, released in August, also has a stakeout on a bridge, and its first scene is a woman in a police station telling the cops her husband is going to kill her. Both films are written by Kanika Dhillon, both are Netflix releases. Did no one think it was a problem that the films start the exact same way?

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Do Patti
Sukanya Verma
rediff.com
One By Two

Do Patti collapses like a house of cards when it aims to be clever.

Dressed in the exact same attire as her newly wedded sister at her reception, the lookalike twin poses right next to the bride and groom as if fulfilling Bollywood’s bawdy fantasy of saali aadhi gharwali in a tasteless, thunder-stealing move.

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Do Patti
Anuj Kumar
The Hindu
Kriti Sanon, Kajol struggle to power this thriller on domestic abuse

Attempting to follow the flowchart of being engaging and meaningful, director Shashanka Chaturvedi loses his grip on the crime thriller

For a long time, one believed that a compelling cinematic narrative shows more than it tells, and expresses more than it explains. However, the recent content spurt on OTT platforms seems bent on cerebrating the opposite. Do Patti is yet another addition to the long list of films that skip theatres for a streaming service. It reduces the art of storytelling to a mere artifice for meaningful cinema. These films end up delivering the message but little else.

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Do Patti
Srivathsan Nadadhur
South First, Friday Wall
Kriti Sanon, Kajol Shine In A Deceptive Yet Uneven Thriller

Shailee and Saumya are twin sisters who lose their mom early in life. Ever since, they don’t get on well with one another and Shailee is soon shifted to a boarding school. Many years later, Saumya falls for Dhruv, an adventure sports enthusiast and son of a politician. Shailee, unexpectedly, returns to her home town and tries to be the party pooper in their relationship. Where’s the tale headed?

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Do Patti
Bhawana Somaaya
92.7 Big FM
A decent one time watch worth it for the star cast

Do Patti
Anmol Jamwal
Tried & Refused Productions (YouTube)

Do Patti
Sucharita Tyagi
Independent Film Critic

Do Patti
Rohit Khilnani
Bollywood Hungama

Do Patti
Renuka Vyavahare
The Times of India
The film touches upon substantial topics but lacks the sensibility or depth to make flawed seem fascinating.

When an attempted murder case unfolds in a sleepy hill town, investigating officer Vidya Jyoti (Kajol) suspects there’s more to the story than meets the eye. Can she decode fact from fiction?

Twins Saumya and Shailee (Kriti Sanon in a double role, this is not a spoiler) are like chalk and cheese. One gets married to hot-headed Dhruv Sood, (television actor Shaheer Sheikh) the privileged man with a volatile temper and political connect who owns a paragliding business in the hills. All’s well on the surface until an unlikely crime makes police officer VJ (Kajol) question everything about this family.

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Do Patti
Anupama Chopra
The Hollywood Reporter India