museumofdave
This, being a Bollywood Romance, is an immersion in style--and if you are looking for realism, sensible plot, or folks with everyday problems, you are in the wrong market. Saawariya is similar to many Golden Age MGM musicals where color is all--in this case, a dense blue that saturates the Never-Neverland sets, sometimes flooded with rain, at other times brilliantly lit with bright primary colors, always a stunning backdrop for some dazzling dancing.The primary story is one of unrequited love, of the Sad Clown who loves in vain--the particular firecracker in this film is Rani Mukherjee, who plays a Lady of The Night with puckish zip, always adding some exclamation points when the romance of her friend flags--it's a musical with style, and as such, I found it highly entertaining. Note added a month after seeing this: I recently watched, for the first time, Visconti's Notte Bianchi--White Nights--and Saawariya is a Bollywood remake of Visconti's film--which takes off from a Dostoevksy story--the two films make a fascinating comparison!
gorgonite
Saawariya should be seen on the big screen because everything about it is beautiful. The songs are great (A 10 min remix of the title track would fit in the film nicely).The story is based on White Nights by Fyodor Dostoevsky and feels more like a stage musical brought magically to life. The sets are like a fairytale blue/green tinged Venice.The characters and performances from the cast are spectacular.Pros - PoignantCons - Ranbir Bhai's character is a bit too goofyOverall - Take a bow, SLB
hotbabenana2006
I agree with most of the comments that said this movie was horrible. WHat is up with the blue light all through the movie! And what kind of weird world was that, that you only see daylight when he is happy. A complete waste of three hours of my life i could have spend watching something that actually made me feel good at the end! Yes, we do like realistic endings but we like them HAPPY too. And the girl cant even act. She never had tears when she cried, and her laugh is the most annoying thing one can hear before going to sleep. Even if you have nothing to do don't watch this movie, there are plenty of pointless movies that are better than this one.
dileshk
Sanjay Leela Bansari is an amazing Directer, I have watched all his movies. I fell in love with him when I saw "Hum dil de chuke sanam", not only the movie, but even the music was amazing! So was Devdas and Black. Now Saawariya, even though taken from "White Nights" was a very beautiful story, and the breathtaking, gorgeous set. Now this is what I love about SLB, his sets are extra ordinary, everything has to be perfect, the Haveli in Hum dil de chuke sanam, the outfits and the red light district in Devdas and the scenery in Black.Personally I think, the biggest mistake that SLB made in Saawariya was that he made it too short. I, just like many other Indian movie watchers are so used to to watching a 3 hr movie. In Saawariya, I was just falling in love with the characters and getting my emotions coming up, feeling what they were feeling and "BHAM" it was over. Salman Khan was there and the movie was over! I think, if the same story was told in 3 hrs, it would have been a hit. In such a story, we need time to feel and get our emotions at the right place, getting them there we need to enjoy them, just like in Hum dil de chuke sanam, Devdas and Black. We felt with them and had tears in our eyes at the end. With sawariya we didn't have time to feel and realise the pain.Ranbir Kapoor, a good actor, Sonam Kapoor very beautiful, lovely expressions. The cast was very well chosen and so was the music.My opinion, what a waste it was, such a beautiful story, such a breathtaking set, amazing cast and then the feelings were missing. All in all, here we see, how you can make amazing to average. I still love SLB, although he disappointed me this time, but I hope he has learned his lesson and that his next movie will be long enough for us to fall in love again!
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