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| Saawariya–
Movie Review |
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Movie Review Board |
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Saawariya
Cast
: Ranbir Kapoor,Sonam Kapoor,Rani Mukherjee,Begum Para
Direction: Sanjay Leela Bhansali
Music: Monty Sharma
Production: Columbia TriStar |
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Finally,
one of the most anticipated movies of the year, Saawariya
has released and the massive popularity is proved by the house-full
boards hanging in theatres across the country. So much so
that Saawariya is advance-booked as never seen before for
a movie with debutants in the lead. However, on contrary to
the popular belief, Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s fairy tale
love story simply fails to live up to its hype. |
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The
movie starts with Rani Mukherjee introducing the hero
of the film Ranbir Kapoor. As soon as the entry is
made, young girls in the audience start screaming
their lungs out confirming the popularity the debutant
has gained. As the story unfolds, the viewer’s
initial beam starts narrowing down to just a sigh
of relief when the movie’s credits start to
roll finally. In the hope that after 2.30 hours of
seeing the make believe land, the dull atmosphere
and over the top emotions one can enjoy a bit of reality.
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sense of déjà vu looms over as the plot
has a striking resemblance to the Tamil movie “Iyarkai”
and the Hindi “Ahista Ahista”. Though
the director acknowledges that the movie is inspired
from a short story called “White nights”
by the famous Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky.
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As
the movie banks on its thinner-than-a-wafer storyline, it
is prudent that the same is not discussed at all, which amounts
to disclosing the story itself. But the movie is not totally
unpromising; Ranbir’s intro is excellent, and all the
scenes where Zohra Segal appears prove that she is one of
the finest character artists in the country. The scene in
which she gives love tips to Ranbir is very cute. However,
other than that the movie lacks soul. The screenplay is hopelessly
awful and the movie unravels in a slow pace. |
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Monty
Sharma’s music is one of the strongest points
of the movie and also the weakest. Although the songs
of Monty are good to hear, watching songs every 5
minutes is surely a pain. This might be a musical
love story but for that the non-film parts should
be crisp and not this dawdling. There are many illogical
situations, such as scenes where Rani’s wait
for Salman Khan for over a year - without a single
moment of grieving - despite his promise that he will
be back for Id. You couldn’t stop questioning
as to why there is no sunshine in the place, where
is the place located and in which era the story unfolds?
Director Sanjay Leela Bhansali has misconceived that
every thing will work if presented stylishly and that
seems to be where he loses altogether. The movie tries
very hard to become a Raj Kapoor classic as Raj Kapoor’s
grandson even wears the china hat and sacrifices his
love - something his grand father is famous for.
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As
for the actors, Ranbir Kapoor gives a confident performance
and will be a star to watch out for. He does find it difficult
to illustrate his emotions but overall a good debut. Sonam,
on the other hand, needs to work extremely hard to get her
emotions right, she does cry naturally but other than that
everything seems to be very fake, especially her ear drum
piercing laughter. Rani come up with yet another good performance.
Salman Khan comes in a blink-and-you-miss type roll of 5 minutes
with just dialogues that hardly cross more than 4 lines. No
other characters remain in the memory when you come out of
the theatres. |
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The
whole movie is shot in a lavish set and kudos to the
art director Omung Kumar and Vaniha Omung Kumar for
the brilliant work but the set does look like a direct
rip off from the Hollywood movie “Babe: pig
in the city”. Music by Monty Sharma and Sanjay
Leela Bhansali are very easy on the ears and the title
song stays with you and makes you hum for hours after
the show. The dialogues are pretty ordinary. And then
comes Ravi. K. Verman, the true hero of the enterprise.
The ace Cinematographer is sure to pocket some main
awards this year for the best cinematography. Flawless.
Period.
Overall
the movie is all gloss no substance. Wannabe cinematographers
will learn loads watching the movie and others will
learn how not to make a love story.
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Verdict - Director’s dream, Viewers
nightmare.
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