Single Salma

2025 [HINDI]

Action / Comedy

3
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 80%
IMDb Rating 4.6/10 10 987 987
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1.25 GB
1280*538
Hindi 2.0
NR
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24 fps
2 hr 18 min
Seeds 8
2.56 GB
1920*808
Hindi 5.1
NR
Subtitles us  ar  es  
24 fps
2 hr 18 min
Seeds 8

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by amit-evergreen 5 / 10

1st half was good

1st half was good then it went on to derail to show women empowerment, self awakening etc etc. It could not hit the mark at the end like Queen and other empowerment based movies.Performances were good from Huma and Shreyas.Overall, it is a decent one time watch.Lucknow and London were shown beautifully.
Reviewed by CrimsonRaptor 4 / 10

? ?Between Duty, Desire, and Delays ?✨

I wanted to love this more than I did. There's something deeply relatable about Salma's particular brand of exhaustion, the kind that comes from being perpetually dependable while your own desires get filed under "someday." Huma Qureshi understands this character from the inside out. She plays Salma with this low-key weariness that never tips into self-pity, just the quiet resignation of someone who has become very, very good at swallowing disappointment. When she finally allows herself a moment of joy in London, literally dancing in the rain like some kind of Bollywood cliche come to life, you feel the release because Qureshi has earned it through forty minutes of barely-there micro-expressions.The problem is the movie surrounding her can't decide what it wants to be. Single Salma oscillates wildly between crowd-pleasing rom-com beats (there's a montage set to peppy music where Salma tries British pub food and makes exactly the faces you'd expect) and more somber meditations on what women sacrifice when they prioritize everyone else's comfort. These tonal shifts aren't graceful. One minute we're watching Salma have a genuinely moving conversation with Mrs. Shrivastav about the cost of being "accommodating," and the next we're back to slapstick sequences of Sikandar trying to use WhatsApp video calls. It's like the film is terrified of committing to its own melancholy, constantly yanking us back to safer, lighter territory whenever things threaten to get too real.Shreyas Talpade does everything right with what he's given. Sikandar could have been a caricature (the screenplay certainly leans that way with his gaudy suits and overeager texting habits), but Talpade finds the sincerity underneath. There's a scene where he fumbles through expressing why he wants to marry Salma that made me genuinely sad, because you realize he's offering her stability and respect, which is more than many women get, but the movie has already decided that's not enough. Which, fine, it shouldn't be enough! But the film never interrogates why Salma said yes in the first place beyond a vague sense of societal pressure and biological clock anxiety.Then there's Meet. Sunny Singh is likeable in that blandly handsome way that Bollywood has perfected, all easy grins and rolled-up sleeves. But his character is basically a walking Eat Pray Love fantasy, the cosmopolitan guy who teaches our small-town heroine that she deserves more. I've seen this archetype a thousand times, and honestly, it bugs me that the film positions him as the obviously correct choice without ever really challenging his perspective. He talks a lot about "living for yourself" and "not settling," which sounds great until you remember that Meet has the economic freedom and social latitude to make those choices. Salma doesn't, not really, and the movie glosses over that inconvenient reality.The London sequences are pretty (there's a lovely shot of Salma on the Thames at sunset that the cinematographer clearly worked hard on), but they also feel weirdly detached from the rest of the film. It's like Single Salma becomes a different movie once Salma boards that plane, trading the cramped, lived-in spaces of her Delhi life for the glossy aspirational sheen of a tourism ad. I kept waiting for the film to complicate this binary, to suggest that neither option is perfect, but it never quite gets there. Instead, we get a climax that tries to split the difference in a way that satisfies nobody.Nidhi Singh as the best friend deserves a better movie. She gets exactly two scenes where she's allowed to be funny and perceptive, and then she vanishes for the entire second act. This is a recurring problem: Single Salma has a habit of introducing interesting supporting characters and then abandoning them the second they've served their narrative function. Mrs. Shrivastav, who briefly becomes Salma's mentor figure, gets one great speech about regretting the choices she made for her family and then is never seen again. Why set up these connections if you're not going to follow through?Would I rewatch this? Probably not. It's the kind of movie that works fine as background viewing on a lazy Sunday but doesn't stick with you afterward. Huma Qureshi's performance deserves a sharper, braver script. There are glimpses of that better movie scattered throughout, moments where you can feel the filmmakers reaching for something more honest and uncomfortable, but they always pull back at the last second. Single Salma wants to be empowering without making anyone too upset, and that middle-ground approach ultimately leaves it feeling toothless. I left the theater feeling neither satisfied nor outraged, just vaguely disappointed that it didn't trust itself enough to commit.
Reviewed by Chandi_Ra 5 / 10

Confused characters, could have been better

Weak script and poorly written characters ruin what could have been a decent film. The story feels confused and unfocused. The only standout is Shreyas Talpade, who plays the lone genuinely good character. It is nice to see him back on screen, but he gets very little screen time. His character deserved a stronger arc and more focus.
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