Alok Sharma had been a film critic for eleven years, and in that time, he had developed a strict rule: never read the user reviews before writing his own. But B.A. Pass was different.
User: Rajat_4u “Too slow. Deepak should have slapped the professor in the interval point. Wasted potential. Where is fight scene?” b.a. pass reviews
(Mukesh): His portrayal of a vulnerable, naive youth was seen as "raw" and "sincere," though some felt he was overshadowed by Shukla. Alok Sharma had been a film critic for
“I have a B.A. pass,” it read. “Not honors. Not gold medal. Just pass. The film got one thing wrong: Deepak disappears. But we don’t disappear. We become invisible while standing in line. We become the man who prints your panini at the metro station. We become the data entry operator who types your address wrong. The film is beautiful, but it lies about the ending. There is no vanishing. There is only passing—barely, always barely.” User: Rajat_4u “Too slow
And then, tucked between a one-star rant about “too much realism” and a five-star review titled “Masterpiece for depressed people only,” Alok found a long, plain-text review signed by a single initial: D.
Alok loved it. He called it “a necessary knife to the chest of aspirational cinema.”