Rajkummar Rao is brilliant (as he often is) but in an effort to strip him off an idealist's usual platitudes and sloganeering, Masurkar makes Newton distant: We are never inside him
in Newton we go from smiling to laughing outright even at its grimmest, because the film is light on its feet, and the tone is consistent right through
'Newton' jumps over that divide and runs off with a brilliantly acted, impeccably written, lovingly shot, humorous, yet poignant film that Indian audiences didn't ask for, but need
by Sreehari Nair [Rediff ]
by Neil Soans [Times of India ]
