Mayank Shekhar of Hindustan Times rated it 3/5 and said, "None of the actors assembled on stage let him (the director) down; right from an unusually inspired Rampal to his powerful, polar opposite Bajpayee" [REF].
Rachel Saltz of The New York Times said, "[T]he film - full of romance, intrigue and fraternal strife - is too diffuse to score political points.