Protraph
Lack of good storyline.
Odelecol
Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.
Matho
The biggest problem with this movie is it’s a little better than you think it might be, which somehow makes it worse. As in, it takes itself a bit too seriously, which makes most of the movie feel kind of dull.
Md. Hasnat Babur
The boat was sunk at the riverside! The ship was sunk at the beach! The plane was crashed on the runway! Feeling angry after watching the sudden change of story!The boat was sunk at the riverside! The ship was sunk at the beach! The plane was crashed on the runway! Feeling angry after watching the sudden change of story!The boat was sunk at the riverside! The ship was sunk at the beach! The plane was crashed on the runway! Feeling angry after watching the sudden change of story!The boat was sunk at the riverside! The ship was sunk at the beach! The plane was crashed on the runway! Feeling angry after watching the sudden change of story!
jesuswalk
A creative adoption of novel by Maitreyi Devi, some great performances by Aishwarya Rai and Ajay Devgan , wonderful screenplay by Sanjay Leela Bhansali and a judgmental and sweet music score by Ismail Darbar, These are few things which combine to make this a masterpiece. Film is a simple love triangle but how Bansali has served it to us is watchable. He has mixed the Perfection of direction, the strength of the emotion and joy of drama together in a way the best it could be. nobody can expect that a actress can give such a heart touching beautiful performance in just starting of her acting carrier like Aishwarya Rai did and I am still wondering how Bhansali trusted her that she could carry this big movie on her own shoulder as a fresher in industry but she did it. She lived the character of Nandini and played both her life phases so genuinely in this film that it is still one of her career's great performances. Ajay Devgan, everybody knows is a great and deep actor and he does full judgment to the expectations. His entry in the movie creates excitement and brings freshness to the Soryline. Salman Khan's has both comic and emotional touch and his performance is average in movie. Sets are Grand and the colorful and magnetic culture of Rajasthan and Gujrat states is shown beautifully in movie. Story line is so gripping that we connect us to the story right from the starting and dialogs are so good that our opinion changes according to the situation in the movie. Cinematography is nice and costumes are just perfect for every scene. Last but not the least, it is the music score of the movie which take audiences to the deep of the movie and helps actors to express their emotions on screen because it so much situational and composed beautifully. Thanks to Ismail Darbar. A MUST WATCH MOVIE IF YOU LOVE 1.PERFECTION IN MOVIE, 2.MEANINGFUL CINEMA AND YES 3.INDIAN CULTURE.
tedg
As with nearly all my viewing, this was recommended by a reader.I admit that I am not as familiar with these films as I should be. Just based on popularity and persistence, they need to be understood. Gosh, it about 1 1/2 hours straight of two people falling in love before any drama sets in. Then it shifts to Budapest posing as Italy; I guess the audience would not know the difference. The negatives are obvious. It is just too long for the trivial story. There are cultural stereotypes whose behavior must be essential to the pleasure of the thing, stereotypes I did not know. There is a ton of singing and dancing but like an Andrew Lloyd Weber musical, it all sounded and looked much the same. The girl who is such a beauty that she causes two good men to fall in love dangerously deep... she's a petulant, selfish brat.But the colors and the staging are so lush that I got a sugar high and was just about sad to see it end. I don't know anything like this in the west where the simple show is so dominant and so well done. And this is well done. There is a kite-flying scene that just took my breath away. I replayed it a few times. One of the few dramatic moments is when the couple has to be permanently separated. She hears about it an rushes through the house; her dress catches fire and she doesn't even notice, the dancing colors adding to the way the environment tells us what is going on.I won't ruin the ending. Anywhere else I would gag, but here it was a reward — truly romantic. Now I have to look up more of this fellow's work. The way he uses the environment reminds me of a young Yimou Zhang.Ted's Evaluation -- 2 of 3: Has some interesting elements.
chrishend
Overall, I enjoyed this movie. It did most of the things I expect from Bollywood ... good songs, good dancing, a ridiculously hot girl, and at least initially a petty and simplistic plot.As the movie progressed, things got a lot more interesting and my hopes for the movie grew quite a bit as the husband character entered the picture.At the end, however, I can't help but feeling this movie let me down. It seemed to me to be a poor exercise in rationalizing the custom of arranged marriages and therefore an exercise in rationalizing what is effectively institutionalized slavery (the transfer of property rights ... in this case the "property" being Aishwarya). At the end we have the female lead expressing such notions as "love means sacrifice" which may be true, and was indeed noble when the husband was trying to find Sameer for her (although I don't quite know why the husband thinks he "loves" her when in fact he didn't know her at all at that point. He just recognized she was good-looking) but in this case the notion of sacrifice is only used as a rationalization for why Aishwarya should be willing to take on the traditional subservient role to her father and husband. CLEARLY her love of Kahn must have been silly, vain, and wrong because she wasn't "sacrificing" in that case, but now that she's agreed to do what all the males wanted her to do in the first place it is only NOW that she really understands what love means (a lesson naturally taught to her by her "husband"). And plus, her husband isn't really such a bad guy after all, so why rock the boat ... right? All pure rubbish, but I'm sure the people that feel arranged slavery is fine and dandy will have no problem sleeping at night after the twisted rationalizations that made it fine and dandy in this movie.Also, the depiction of Italians was borderline racist, but that wasn't central to the plot so I'll leave that one alone ...
