Box office Ugly Aur Pagli grossed approximately in its first week. Worldwide, the film grossed slightly over $7 million.
Critical response The film had a mixed critical reception. There was praise for the performances of the lead pair and criticism of the film's plot. Raja Sen of
Rediff.com gave the film 1.5 stars out of 5, writing "
My Sassy Girl works largely because the tone of everything in the film -- save from the cocky titular heroine -- is normal as toast, which is why placing sauce on it is tasty. Here, the treatment is consistently over-the-top and gets tiresome after the first act. While some of the lines are wicked good -- especially Ranvir's VO, which quirkily once labels Mallika a cross between Medha Patkar and Keshto Mukherjee -- there just aren't enough of them.
Rajeev Masand in his reviews for
CNN-IBN gave the film 2 stars out of 5, saying "I’m going with two out of five for director Sachin Khot’s Ugly Aur Pagli, shame on him and his writers for ripping off a film from start to finish and yet failing to come up with something half-way entertaining."
Khalid Mohamed writing for
Hindustan Times gave the film 2 stars out of 5. == Music ==