Hindustan Times rated Farhan Akhtar-starrer '120 Bahadur' a 3/5 stars, calling its cinematography "striking". The review read, "What '120 Bahadur' needed was a stronger emotional spine throughout to bind its technical strengths together." It added, "A tighter screenplay, and a sharper balance between sentiment and spectacle could have elevated it from a sincere tribute, to a stirring war drama."