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Filmi Score
Mixed
8 reviews
43
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Critics are split on Kangana Ranaut's Indira Gandhi biopic, with several praising her personal, nuanced take and strong production values while others call the performance and script exaggerated, rushed, or caricatured.
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Summary
Emergency (2025, Hindi) has a Filmi Score of 43 from 8 critic reviews, is rated 18+ by Filmi (CBFC: A), and streams on Netflix in the US.
Based on true events that unfolded in 1975, the film chronicles incidents that took place under the leadership of Indira Gandhi, one of the most powerful women in Indian history.
Where to watchAvailability by JustWatch · some watch links pay filmi.ai a small commission; it never changes what we show or how we score.
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Cast & crew
Cast
Directed by Kangana Ranaut · written by Kangana Ranaut & Ritesh Shah & Tanvi Kesari Pasumarthy · music G. V. Prakash Kumar & Sanchit Balhara & Ankit Balhara & Arko Pravo Mukherjee
Kangana RanautDirector · Writer
Ritesh ShahWriter
Tanvi Kesari PasumarthyWriter
G. V. Prakash KumarMusic
Sanchit BalharaMusic
Ankit BalharaMusic
Arko Pravo MukherjeeMusic
Tetsuo NagataCinematography
Rameshwar S. BhagatEditing
Kangana RanautLead
Anupam Kher
Satish Kaushik
Shreyas Talpade
Mahima Chaudhry
Milind Soman
Darshan Pandya
Vishak Nair
Avijit Dutt
Monika Negi
Sanjay Gurbaxani
Manwendra Tripathy
Full crew
SoundNihar Ranjan Samal · Debajit Changmai · C.V. Raju · Sameer Patra · Rajesh Pradhan · Subodh Kumar Satapathy
Production designRakesh Yadav · Wasiq Khan · Sahiba Shaikh · Mayur Mulam · Sharad Lad
CostumeSheetal Sharma
ChoreographyKirti Suresh
LyricsManoj Muntashir
VFXArijit Ghosh · Kannan Thazhathodiyil · K.V. Sanjit
ActionSunil Rodrigues · Nick Powell
MakeupDhananjay Prajapati · Lizzie Lawson · Nayan Nikale · Hemant Sawant · Avinash Prajapati · Pramod Kumar · Bipin Yerunkar · Ratan Gupta · Sunil Kashyap · Lahu Habale · Pravin Kumar
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Summary
Based on true events that unfolded in 1975, the film chronicles incidents that took place under the leadership of Indira Gandhi, one of the most powerful women in Indian history.
Emergency (2025, Hindi) has a Filmi Score of 43 from 8 critic reviews, is rated 18+ by Filmi (CBFC: A), and streams on Netflix in the US.
Where to watch
Availability by JustWatch · some watch links pay filmi.ai a small commission; it never changes what we show or how we score.What the critics said
8 reviews · the critic’s own number where they gave one
Five of 8 · the critic’s own number where they gave one
Anmol Jamwal · YouTube · transcript read · 17 Jan 2025
The reviewer calls Kangana's Indira Gandhi a nuanced, non-partisan character study anchored by a strong ensemble and sharp dialogue, and says he… Watch it there →
Derived by Filmi
78
Yogi · YouTube, Hindi · rating spoken aloud · 17 Jan 2025
3.5/5, said on camera. Published nowhere. Watch it there →
Stated in video
Filmi’s reading 68
70
Lachmi Deb Roy · 17 Jan 2025
Emergency Movie Review: Kangana Ranaut nailed the role of Indira Gandhi with her nasal twang & facial expre... Read it there →
Published · 3/5
Filmi’s reading 58
60
Nandini Ramnath · 17 Jan 2025
Ramnath finds Ranaut's Indira Gandhi biopic a disdainful, montage-heavy potted history whose farcical, twitchy lead performance and uneven pacing… Read it there →
Derived by Filmi
33
Deeksha Sharma · YouTube, Hindi · rating spoken aloud · 17 Jan 2025
2/5, said on camera. Published nowhere. Watch it there →
Stated in video
Filmi’s reading 32
40
Unni Narayanan · YouTube, Malayalam · transcript read · 18 Jan 2025
Unni praises the music, score and visuals as strong but says the exaggerated, one-sided characterization and Kangana's own performance sink the… Watch it there →
Derived by Filmi
30
Angel Rani · 17 Jan 2025
Angel Rani calls Emergency an over-the-top, melodramatic script that packs in major historical events without enough context, with Kangana's… Read it there →
Derived by Filmi
27
Saibal Chatterjee · 17 Jan 2025
Emergency Review: Kangana Ranaut's Film Is A Lesson In How Not To Make A Biopic Read it there →
Published · 1.5/5
Filmi’s reading 15
30
How this number was made. We read every review and derive a 0–100 reading from each — including where the critic printed a number, which stays first on its row, because it’s theirs. The Filmi Score is the mean of 8 readings; 4 of those rows also carry the critic’s own rating, shown beside ours. Rubric v2.1, computed 26 Oct 2026. Any critic can ask us to remove a derived reading.
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Emergency: quick answers
Box office, where to watch and what critics said — from the same data as the page.
Where can I watch Emergency?
Emergency is streaming on OTT: Netflix (India, the US, the UK and Canada). Availability comes from JustWatch and is checked every Friday.
What did critics say about Emergency?
Emergency has a Filmi Score of 43 (Mixed), the mean of 8 readings of critic reviews, one per review. Readings run from 15 (NDTV) to 78 (Tried&Refused Productions). Every review and how it was scored is listed below.
What readers say
The Audience Score appears once three readers’ reviews have been read under the rubric — built from what people write, never from the rating numbers.
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