She considered it the feel-good film of the year, comparing it to 2015's Dum Laga Ke Haisha.[39] The Hindu journalist and film critic Namrata Joshi included Nil Battey Sannata in her year-end list of "Hindi films that made a mark in 2016".[40] She thought of it "a warm, feel-good film which offers hope and the promise".[5]