Monday, November 12, 2007

The great Sawariya- OSO battle

There s a meatloaf song "Is Nothing Sacred Anymore"? Are our movie critics now so easy to buy that an absolutely useless movie like Om Shanti Om is proclaimed as a better movie than Sawariya. Or are we so much hypocrites and losers that we actually like a movie that just blatantly copies and parodies compared to another which truly creates a dreamworld that you can get lost in.
Om Shanti Om is a remake of Madhumati, where the humour is not original but derived from mimicry of the past or greats like Rajnikant. It even borders on offensive. The saving graces of the movie are its music and the lead actors. Shah Rukh Khan as usual can make any role special and Deepika Padukone brings a Vidya Balanish freshness to the screen.
Sawariya on the other hand has a visual brilliance hitherto unmatched in Indian cinema. This movie is the brilliance of Sanjay Leela Bhansali all the way. The way he tells his story, the way he ends it beautifully, the magic he weaves with colours, and the detailing of his sets, all make it an uniquely pleasurable experience. He creates Paris, Venice and Mumbai on screen in one frame and transports us to dreamland where love and music could be enough for sustenance. The two lead stars do a good job of not getting in his enough. In fact Ranbir Kapoor has every bit of a budding star in him while Sonam Kapoor is refreshingly beautiful, almost innocently beautiful one can say.
Guess am no good at movie reviews but thats an honest opinion.

3 Comments:

Blogger surabhi said...

well.....this post should definately go to sanajay leela bhansali ..he atleast will be relieved to see an admirer :) also might end up giving next movie's marketing campaign to this management stud!!!!!!

9:25 AM  
Blogger Madhurjya (Banjo) Banerjee said...

Thank God someone else loved the movie. But Sonam Kapoor?????

10:18 PM  
Blogger Abilin Mukherjee said...

Alas such is life...
And pray whats wrong with Sonam Kapoor or is it just fashionable to trash Bollywood?

12:00 AM  

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