Suman Shakya A divorced lady in her 30s loses all her money in Los Vegas' casino and burrows a huge sum of money from a gangster, which she loses too. To pay back, she starts to rob the banks as the notorious "The Lipstick Bandit." This summons a gullible plot of "Simran," said to be loosely based on a real life story; but nevertheless, it keeps one watching for the curiosity and entertainment it creates. Kangana Ranaut as a feisty single lady steals the show with the shades she gives to her character, and the glossy look of the film often does the wonder. Despite an ease and the implausibility the film carries, it surely is entertaining and worthwhile.Rating: 2.5 stars out of 4

curiousmolar It seem impossible to even watch 30 sec of this .Watching Kangana Ranaut in this movie is such a pain.to fill: Simran is an Indian heist comedy drama film directed by Hansal Mehta which features Kangana Ranaut in the lead roleand Hiten Kumar, Kishori Shahane, Sohum Shah in supporting roles. The film released worldwide on 15 September 2017.

koshkloud :) :):) Beautiful movie. It is a league above typical movies, totally refreshing. Kangana like fine wine gets better with every movie. If there is one actor I can watch for hours it's her, every nuance every scene is executed with such craft. You never realize you're watching Kangana, it's Praful. This is what I loved about the movie- the characters stay with you they leave such an impression. They seem like people you know. I laughed my heart out watching this. Brilliant plot, amazing acting and wonderfully filmed. 100% worth watching. The songs are also well-placed and quite memorable.

Aditya joshi First Published On- myunwantedreviews.wordpress.comIn one beautiful scene, Praful, Kangana's character, reaches at the top of the hotel in Las Vegas, wearing a beautiful red dress she just bought, and a glass of pink champagne in hand; overlooks the shiny skyline of Vegas with a smile on her face and a brief nod of the head acknowledging the beauty this place has to offer.It is an almost come and go scene, which can be easily missed. But why it is important is because this is what exactly the movie is about. A dress which was well above her budget, a glass of champagne which she couldn't afford, and Vegas, which she wasn't planning to visit at first place. It's about her ambitions; an independent life which she wants to live.Simran is the story of Praful Patel or Praf as she likes to call herself, a 30-year-old, divorced, Gujarati girl living in Atlanta with her parents and works in housekeeping department of Hilton hotel. She is a no nonsense, happy-go-lucky, high on energy girl who is planning to buy a new home for herself. Her character is everything that we associate Gujarat with, dhokla-fafda-thepla conversation, impeccable skills of bargaining, heavy gujju accent and most importantly full of life attitude. Her family is an ordinary NRI family. They are the ones who couldn't realize their American dream they hoped for while moving to US. Her mother is a housewife who calls Praful's job of maid as 'Jhadu-pota' and her father is in the business of Gujju Snacks, who always nags her daughter to get married again. They are the ones whose dinner table conversations usually end up in arguments. Fed up of all the constant taunting and nagging she decides to go to Vegas with her cousin on an 'all-expenses-paid' trip where among other things, she tries her luck in gambling and what happens next sets the plot for the film.Like Shahid and Aligarh, Hansal Mehta's Simran too is based on a real life story but quite loosely this time it's unlike his previous works. But just like before, Simran is also heavily driven by the characters. And the characters are quite nicely written. But problem starts when the story surrounding those characters starts to falter. For Simran, narration goes well but the way story progresses, leaves so many ends hanging loose. In a scene, on the bank of a lake, Praful asks her fiancé-to-be to feel the breeze and fly with her, just when the scene seems to be going into intense mode, they crack it with a silly joke. It neither remains fully philosophical nor does it remain funny.What seemed to be a light-hearted story in first half, seems to go nowhere in the later part of the film. After all the controversy between Apurv Asranai and Kangana, she too is given credit for screenplay and additional dialogues, but irony remain strong as that is the weakest part of the movie. It leaves all ambition, independent girl theory at back and becomes a little too simple heist movie. At some point they make robbery look too easy and police look too dumb, which is not easy to digest as from the look Simran looks a sensible movie and not plain comedy.Performance-wise, Simran puts a great show. All the actors remain in the vibe of Gujarat, which at no point looks artificial. Sohum Shah as Sameer is good and plays well all of his screen time, so did Hiten Kumar and Kishori Shahane as typical Gujju parents. But Kangana is the show stealer. Her aura is dominating and it remains throughout the runtime of this movie. I personally feel that this performance of Kangana is even better than Queen and Tanu Weds Manu. Despite all good performance, it mostly is a one-woman-show. As I said earlier, characters are written beautifully here but when you make one character so powerful that it overshadows other nicely written ones, it makes a movie look average. Here Kangana's character is written in such a way that she practically never leaves the screen, even for a single shot and hence no other character gets enough time to breath. More than a movie, Simran remains a character study of Praful Patel and being quite good at that. But sadly in other spaces, it remains average at its best.For fans of Kangana it's a treat but for the lovers of cinema, it's an average film with some moments of its own. In anyway, you expect a lot more from a director who gave us movies like Shahid and Aligarh.