SECRET SUPERSTAR is a really super powerful, emotional coming-of-age film with a heartfelt mother-daughter relationship at its core. The simple, almost fairytale-like narration is perfectly legitimate in transporting this empowering and inspiring story.

Full Review | Original Score: 8/10 | Aug 8, 2022

Aamir Khan’s presence has given Secret Superstar pre-release visibility, but what gives it staying power through its running time is the strength of its storytelling and conviction.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 5, 2022

Secret Superstar never loses sight of its principal purpose: lending heft and height to a daughter's derring-do and a mom's mutiny.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 23, 2020

The deep pleasures of a simple story, simply yet eloquently told, is what makes Secret Superstar such an engaging, true watch. Till the first half. Post-interval, it dips, and the result is a film which stops short of being superlative.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jul 11, 2019

For once, we admire the aesthetics of the shot instead of mourning its unnecessary existence.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 1, 2019

Underneath the commercial sheen is a tough story about domestic abuse and female empowerment that dares to go deeper than most sweet and sunny Indian dramas.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 10, 2018

Solid performances, great music and solid writing, director Advait Chandan couldn't have asked for a better setup for a debut film.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 26, 2017

More than the story, which leans on several tropes and clichés, it's the graph of the characters and the performances that elevate the emotion.

Full Review | Oct 20, 2017

The problem with Secret Superstar is that it starts out with a good idea, but the film unravels because it wants to say too many things at once.

Full Review | Oct 20, 2017

This is first-class entertainment, the best imaginable antidote to the toxicity presently leaking out of western movie circles.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 20, 2017

When Aamir Khan backs a film, you expect quality.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 19, 2017

There are several things that Secret Superstar, a tale of a repressed teenager in a town in Gujarat, gets right.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 19, 2017

Secret Superstar will still make you laugh and cry with ease. Show some appetite for drama and you have an entertainer at your service.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 18, 2017