Student of the Year (2012)

Yawn. Poorly Filmed Snooze Fest.

Don't listen to the Hype. It's awful

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

It might too late to give review for this movie at this time.I think this movie is good enough to consider in your watch list. This is not too deep sentimental sense like another Bollywood movie. Its light but entertaining. The most i like from this movie is character from every people who involved there, especially Sidahart Malhotra, Alia Bhatt and Varun Dhawan. Their act look totally for a debut film. This film look so glamour at every stuff. And absolutely fresh & gorgeous. I enjoyed the plot , but it needs improvement and deepening of the story in order to strengthen the character, cause they look so totally on their rule. one which is unfortunate is the music, if you listen it, you might thinking that this movie isn't Bollywood movie.

Was expecting this to be a typical Indian high school/college movie, but it went beyond that. Great new actors which is sometimes a welcome change. Yes some typical Indian movie aspects, but in general Indian movies are moving away from what they were some years ago, overacting, running around trees, and numerous unnecessary emotional scenes,not to mention being over three hours long. This one kept one focused throughout. And those reviews here that think these new actors have no potential, then they need to come out of the time capsule they are in, and they are the ones that probably love the Indian movies I referred to as in the past. It's time to move on and these new young actors are doing just that, taking Indian movies to where they need to be. This was even a shift from a typical Karan Johar movie. Yes the ending is something that could have been mentioned earlier but I guess it made sense to keep it to the end...true it kind of fizzled out in the end but that is to be expected sometimes. I would not hesitate to watch it again!! Great songs too with some old remixes!! Nicely done.

The first impression that you'll get about this film is that Karan Johar has tried a tad too hard to project Indian students and colleges as something they're truly not!Where in India do you find colleges like "St.T's" with devastatingly good looking blokes running after a girl who is above-average at best!Puh-leeeeeeeez, Shanaya (Alia Bhatt) is not some princess that she's made out to be in the movie, she sure is European looking but the last time I checked Indian beauties (Deepika, Bipasha, Priyanka, Lara) are far more exotic and gorgeous than some girl with 20% talent and 80% connections (father - Mahesh Bhatt).The real star(s) of this movie are the two male leads, they have far better chemistry than Shanaya/Rohan or Shanaya/Abhi. I see immense potential for both of the guys even though, Varun needs to brush up his acting skills and Sid needs to stop being a plank when he's dancing! Now coming to the reason why I rated this movie a friggin' 8, with all the bad and not very good things I've said about it so far;This movie is pure entertainment! - dancing, music, some daydreaming (who wouldn't have loved to be a student at a college like St. Teresa's back in the day!) lots of energy, some fun and frolic.I am not a critic and when I go to the cinema and buy a ticket I need to watch a flick which is my money's worth, mainstream Indian cinema is not really known for its class and masterpieces. Which is why I go for Iranian, French or Turkish movies when I need to watch something profound and meaningful and turn to Good Ol' Hindi Cinema when I need to kick back, enjoy some dance and music, you know just have a good time.And if a Hindi movie has all the ingredients of a masala entertainment, I am more than happy to rate it 8.P.S I am not saying Hindi cinema is all about pointless masala flicks, of course something worthwhile comes around once in a few years but I am happy that as an open-minded, diverse movie viewer I have movies from various film industries to cater to my moods.Watch SOTY when in the I-don't-care-what-the-story-is-I-want-to-kickback -and-chill mood.

After watching Student of the Year, I had mixed feelings about the film.The story is about Abhimanyu (Siddarth Malhotra) who is the new guy in school and becomes friends with Rohan (Varun Dhawan). Abhi falls in love with Rohan's girlfriend, Shanaya(Alia Bhatt). They are all competing for the Student of the Year trophy that involves an IQ test, a scavenger hunt, a dance competition and a triathlon.It is a very predictable plot and I can't tell if this is a high school or a college. They were a blazer for their uniform and yet they go out to clubs, drink and party.Siddarth and Varun acted well in their first film. I believe Varun was the better actor in this film. An example would be when he has a fight with his Dad about wanting to be a singer and not a businessman like him. Siddarth weakest scene was when his grandmother was dying and he started to cry. I don't think he can do emotional scenes all that well. Alia was just terrible in this film and Karan Johar should have casted somebody else for her role. She sounds like a 12 year old girl. The supporting cast did an excellent job. I found Jeet and Sudo acted very well in their roles. A big thumbs up for Rishi Kapoor who played the gay dean perfectly.The music was a big plus point for this film. All the songs were great and were used well for this film. My personal favourite was Vele.Overall, watch this film for Varun, Siddarth, the supporting cast and the great music. A disappointing 5/10