The story is refreshing; the theater-like treatment (sets, props, costumes) is dramatically different. This is no Shakespearean act, but there's enough drama, demons and devtaas to rival our desi phantoms of the operas.
Critic Score: 3.5/5

'Nautaki Saala', pegged as a comedy of errors by its makers. True, a 'comedy of errors' it is, but the errors outnumber the logic (if any) the film has. Watch 'Nautanki Saala' only if you really want to.
Critic Score: 2/5

Nautanki Saala! is funny in parts but often it feels stretched and flat, like champagne without the fizz. Nautanki Saala! had all the ingredients of a peppy, amiable comedy but this soufflé doesn't quite rise.
Critic Score: 2.5/5

Unfortunately, Ayushmann Khurrana and Kunaal Roy Kapur have no comic chemistry in 'Nautanki Saala'. Ayushmann, puts his heart and soul into this totally average film and makes it watchable. I just hope that it would have been more enjoyable.
Critic Score: 3/5

Ayushmann Khurrana is an absolute natural. He does not miss a single trick as he sails through the role of the nice guy who takes acting too seriously for his own good. The film deserves full marks for intention, if not for execution. But give me Nautanki Saala! any day after the merciless assault of Himmatwala and Chashme Baddoor!.
Critic Score: 3/5

And no one should ever write, produce or direct 'Nautanki Saala', which initially annoys you, then lulls you into slumber, and then deepens the creases on your forehead. Oh no, the bright and bouncy Ayushmann Khurrana has just committed career harikiri.
Critic Score: 1/5

Sippy has a feel for staging scenes, and some are laugh-out-loud. The idea that true love can be found through such a random route is also nice, and lends the film a pleasing slightness. But the nautanki in this film is an on-off thing. I wish there was much more of it.
Critic Score: 2.5/5