The Indian Express' Shubhra Gupta gave 2.5 stars to Aryan Khan's debut directorial 'The Ba***ds of Bollywood'. "There's tonal confusion: is this making fun of the stereotypes, or is it using them to tell us an over-used story of how film people are like?" the review read. "Ultimately...the [series] is simply not self-aware, and yes, not fun enough," it added.