Chashme Baddoor wins the hearts, again:

It is a remake and certainly great remakes of another great films. Chashme Baddoor wins the hearts again while box office collection too zooms
David Dhawan’s latest venture, Chashme Baddoor, remake of the 1981 cult classic film of the same name starring Farooq sheikh and Deepti Naval, was released in packed cinema halls across the country. Starring Ali Zafar, Sidharth, Divyendu Sharma and Taapsee Pannu in lead roles while experienced star cast including Rishi Kapoor, Lilette Dubey Anupam Kher, and Bharti Achrekar as the supporting characters, the comedy proved that remakes can also be loved and accepted by the public and critics.
Earning almost 20 crore in its opening weekend, the film, that was expected to be marred  by another remake Himmatwala, directed by Sajid Khan and starring Ajay Devgn, not only stole the limelight but is also expected to cross the 50 crore mark in its first week.

Though the common man loved the remake, that is far off from the original one in terms of narration and presentation, the critics gave a mixed response to the movie, termed as an adult comedy, as against the original film that fell in the genre of romcom;
Shilpa Jamkhandikar-Reuters: “David Dhawan takes what was a genuinely funny and memorable film and “remakes” it into a crass, unfunny and offensive film that serves just one purpose – it speaks volumes about the sharp decline in our sense of humor in the last three decades. This film could have be another of those puerile comedies that we are subjected to day in and day out. But calling it a remake of a classic film seems like a crime. Pick the old over the new this weekend.”
Taran Adarsh-Bollywood Hungama: ” Chashme Baddoor encompasses the spirit of the original, but has been customized to entice the present-day spectators. An entertainer with dollops of humor and wild situations thrown in, this one’s a laugh-riot that should not be missed!”
Ananya Bhattacharya- Zee News: “Arz kia hai… Thus begins David Dhawan’s modern day tale of friendship, romance and kaminapanti. Repartees, wittiness, caustic one-liners. ‘Chashme Baddoor’, this time around, is one hell of a journey. In Hindi cinema, there is a reason David Dhawan enjoys the epithet of the King of Comedy – and from the King’s treasure chest, the film is a gem. Three stars for the re-loaded ‘Chashme Baddoor’ – not to be missed, this one!”
Srijana Mitra Das – The Times of India: “The answer’s yes – love can be remade and so can a lovely film like 1981′s Chashme Buddoor (CB). This version’s as different as paapri chaat from a dhokla. But it retains the original’s madness, masti and movie-mania. You will not like this movie if you don’t like corny, occasionally.”
Subhash K Jha of IANS: “This Chashme Baddoor moves wickedly at its own volition creating a crazy pattern of comic chaos that stops short of being anarchic due to the finely-tuned situational satire simulated in the writing out of a material that was created 30 years ago when there were no mobile phones and the height of male voyeurism was the Playboy magazine. This is David Dhawan’s wickedest comedy of one-upmanship since Mujhse Shaadi Karogi. You can’t miss it. The attention-grabbing chest-thumping gibberish-spewing rowdy boyz won’t let you.
Sneha May Francis – Emirates 24/7: “You’d think it’s almost suicidal for any director to attempt to remake a classic as imposing as 1980s’ ‘Chashme Buddoor’. But, the flamboyant David Dhawan does the unexpected. He gives the original a menacingly, fun twist, something many, including me, wouldn’t have thought him capable of. While, it’s incomparable to the original, it still manages to hold its own, and packs in sufficient amount of quirkiness, madness and poetry to leave us sufficiently tickled. It also emerges as one of Dhawan’s more tolerable movies, with the director refusing to indulge in his staple, slapstick comedy drill and over-the-top drama”.