Overrated and overhyped

Simple and well acted, it has tension enough to knot the stomach.

It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

Nice movie.The story is good.Though copied from Korean film A bitter sweet life it is good .Nice direction by Mohit Suri.Nice songs.That is why I likes Mohit Suri films.The acting was superb from Emraan Hasmi.The way he acted when he lost his love was excellent.Nice music by Pritam.Nicely produced by Mahesh Bhatt and Mukesh Bhatt.Awesome dialouges.The story is excellent.The story is about Emraan Hasmi as a gangster brought up by gangster and the main thing is how he becamed gangster.His love story is superb as we see in his every films.Overall watch this movie for the wonderful performance by Emraan Hasmi.

In my opinion,Mohit Suri is one of the most underrated directors in Bollywood industry........I am not saying that his films are flawless....but there is a minimum standard to his films than just old wine in new bottle type Karan johar films....... his first movie Kalyug was a good thought provoking movie......was a great theme....but direction had flaws,nevertheless it was his first film.....basic problem of his movies are the sequences in the last part of the movie.....in most of his films,the climax portions are big letdowns.....like raaz,Kalyug,Crook....... But I can ensure that Awarapan is his best movie.....climax is handled very well....now coming to the story.....Shivam(Emraan Hashmi) is part of the gang lead by Bahrat malik(Ashutosh Rana)which involves in illegal activities...Malik treats Shivam as his son.....Malik has the business of selling girls for prostitution......he encounters such a girl named Reema and has love for her....but he suspects that she gave her heart to someone else.....so he instructs Shivam to keep an eye on her.....on seeing her Shivam begins to have memories of his long lost love Aliyaa(Shriya saran)......But dangers lie for Shivam as he realizes that Reema is in love with a pakistani boy......will shivam be loyal to his master malik or will he help reema......this forms the rest of the story.....Emraan dons the role of Shivam.....really great performance...refreshing to see him in a different role other than the usual womanizer roles he does......another surprising fact is that he does not have a kiss in this movie....Ashutosh Rana also delivers an excellent performance as Bharat malik.....a great actor to look out for.....Newcomer Mrinalani Sharma gives an OK performance......nothing to brag about....Shriya saran has a short role.....she has nothing much to perform.....all other actors had did there part well.....nobody disappoints..Songs are the soul of the movie......all the songs are pleasant to hear...Tera mera Rishta song goes well with the flow of the movie......and in the climax parts it gives a certain effect to the movie....Direction was gripping at parts......but Emraan-shriya romance scenes were hampering the pace of the movie...Awarapan will not disappoint you in any way.......Its a nice movie to watch

Vishesh films have given several good films like Gangster which became huge hits despite being low budget films AWARAPAN was their big budget film since long time and one of the reason the film flopped The movie was good though, despite being a copy of A BITTERSWEET LIFE The handling by Mohit Suri is great Emraan's character is handled brilliantly and the director manages to involve spirituality and other things very well The first half is slow but yet the scenes are very well handled, the flashback portion is good and also the entire Pre-interval point The 2nd half gets more intense and despite some cinematic liberties, the film is brilliantly handled Tera Mera Rishta comes at the apt place and makes a strong impact The spirituality angle looks in sync and is handled well The entire climax though filmy yet stands out esp the scene between Ashutosh and EmraanDirectorally Mohit Suri takes many steps ahead from his previous works, though his storytelling is slight flawed at places Music(Pritam) is perfect, esp To Phir Aao and Tera Mera Rishtaa cinematography is superbPerformances Emraan Hashmi till this film was not known as a great actor, but this film changed it all, He handled his role with amazing maturity and restraint Shreya is wonderful in a small role, Mrinalini is good though she tends to screech too much at places Ashutosh Rana is flawless in his part, Shaad Randhawa is good too Purab Kohli is excellent in his part Rehan Khan gets less scopeOverall a good film

I hate Indian movie because of there copied concepts, they always copy concepts and stories from Hollywood or they have some typical stories. But this movie is without any mistakes or any stupid thing it is fantastic movie. After Karam and Omkara I like this movie and most good thing is that all the songs are best fits on situation and of course Pakistani singers especially "Mustafa Zahid" made music a fantastic one and soundtrack "To Phir Aao is just a perfect song with very cool acting of Emraan". Whole movie with there story is very good. I have seen lots of Indian movies and I always keep expectations but they always showed me crap stuff and overacting so I left watching Indian movie a long time ago now I came back to watch this movie and it made me happy that they are now working good but I will not say all movies are still good only few are.