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Filmi Score
Very good
11 reviews
71
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Critics mostly praise Basu's colour-coded, multi-story structure and the cast, especially Pankaj Tripathi and Rajkummar Rao, though several flag a flagging middle, uneven writing, and a weaker Abhishek Bachchan track.
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Summary
Ludo (2020, Hindi) has a Filmi Score of 71 from 11 critic reviews, is rated 12+ by Filmi (CBFC: U/A), and streams on Netflix in the US.
Ludo is about the butterfly effect and how, despite all the chaos and crowd of the world, all our lives are inextricably connected. From a resurfaced sex tape to a rogue suitcase of money, four wildly different stories overlap at the whims of fate, chance and one eccentric criminal.
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 Anurag Basu · written by Anurag Basu & Samrat Chakraborty · music Pritam Chakraborty
Anurag BasuDirector · Writer · Cinematography
Samrat ChakrabortyWriter
Pritam ChakrabortyMusic
Ajay SharmaEditing
Pankaj TripathiLead
Abhishek Bachchan
Inayat Verma
Rajkummar Rao
Fatima Sana Shaikh
Aditya Roy Kapur
Sanya Malhotra
Rohit Saraf
Pearle Maaney
Asha Negi
Bhanu Uday
Shalini Vatsa
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Production designAnjani Gajurel · Anurag Basu · Kailash Sahu · Fayyaz Fakhi
CostumeAshish Dawyer
LyricsSayeed Quadri · Sandeep Srivastava
ActionAllan Amin
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Summary
Ludo is about the butterfly effect and how, despite all the chaos and crowd of the world, all our lives are inextricably connected. From a resurfaced sex tape to a rogue suitcase of money, four wildly different stories overlap at the whims of fate, chance and one eccentric criminal.
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
11 reviews · the critic’s own number where they gave one
Five of 11 · the critic’s own number where they gave one
Umesh Punwani · 12 Nov 2020
Ludo Movie Review: Anurag Basu Continues His Streak Of Directing Genre-Defining Cinema! Read it there →
Published · 4/5
Filmi’s reading 93
80
Deeksha Sharma · YouTube, Hindi · rating spoken aloud · 12 Nov 2020
4/5, said on camera. Published nowhere. Watch it there →
Stated in video
Filmi’s reading 85
80
Nairita Mukherjee · 13 Nov 2020
Ludo Movie Review: Abhishek Bachchan, Pankaj Tripathi Netflix film is naram-garam and delicious Read it there →
Published · 3.5/5
Filmi’s reading 85
70
Yogi · YouTube, Hindi · rating spoken aloud · 13 Nov 2020
4/5, said on camera. Published nowhere. Watch it there →
Stated in video
Filmi’s reading 82
80
Jyoti Sharma Bawa · 12 Nov 2020
Bawa admires how Basu weaves fate, colour-coding and black comedy into a coherent whole, praising the cast and the film's emotional reach. Her… Read it there →
Derived by Filmi
80
Anupama Chopra · 12 Nov 2020
Chopra enjoys Basu's inventive, colour-coded mash-up, singling out Tripathi, Rajkummar Rao and Fatima Sana Shaikh, while noting uneven writing, a… Read it there →
Derived by Filmi
78
Stutee Ghosh · 12 Nov 2020
3.5/5, stated in the text — not a formal rating. Read it there →
Stated in text
Filmi’s reading 70
70
Shubhra Gupta · 12 Nov 2020
Ludo review: Hijinks in the time of Corona Read it there →
Published · 2.5/5
Filmi’s reading 62
50
Srivatsan S · 12 Nov 2020
Srivatsan credits Basu's structural precision and finds Rajkummar Rao's track outrageously funny, but says the film loses shape in the middle,… Read it there →
Derived by Filmi
50
Roktim Rajpal · 13 Nov 2020
'Ludo' movie review: A big disappointment Read it there →
Published · 2/5
Filmi’s reading 32
40
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 11 readings; 8 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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Ludo: quick answers
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Where can I watch Ludo?
Ludo 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 Ludo?
Ludo has a Filmi Score of 71 (Very good), the mean of 11 readings of critic reviews, one per review. Readings run from 32 (Deccan Herald) to 93 (Koimoi). 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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