People with disabilities are people like everyone else, and, like everyone else, have feelings... Shonali Bose blows it all out in the open with warmth and empathy in her second feature, Margarita With A Straw and just for that, her work here is done... This is a film to be celebrated. I am raising a Margarita, as a toast. Now where’s that straw?
– Shubhra Gupta, The Indian Express
The best thing about Shonali Bose’s Margarita With A Straw is that it often makes you forget that Laila has cerebral palsy and uses a wheelchair... Laila is a compelling heroine and is winningly performed by Koechlin with solid backing from Gupta and Revathy. – Nandini Ramnath, Scroll.in
...the most notable triumph of Margarita, With a Straw is that it keeps asking disconcerting questions of its characters and us, without spelling out the answers. A good film respects its audience. A better film respects its audience as well as its characters. Margarita, With A Straw, for most part, is a better film.
– Tanul Thakur, Firstpost.com
Margarita, With a Straw is a refreshingly, brutally honest film which ends up making the tiny mistake of adding an emotional, clichéd ending.
– Paloma Sharma, Rediff.com
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