I saw this film at the world premiere in Melbourne. Let me just say this to the hypercritical movie buffs out there: I'm a New Zealand born Caucasian that grew up watching Hollywood films and I've watched a large proportion of the more well known Bollywood films now too. I use IMDb to decide whether to see a movie or not and by my rating scheme 5.2 is far too low a score to go and watch.
Watch this movie ANYWAY.
I've watched dozens of epic bollywood films from 3 idiots to Dil Chahta Hai to Ishq: This quite possibly could be the best though.
If you reviewed this title and gave it a low score you probably didn't quite 'get it'. It's not about the scene chronology, it's not about the suspense or build up, it's not about the cinematography. This movie in fact is unabashedly unrealistic in places. There's a scene that highlights this with priyanka and shahid dancing in the rain underneath a perfectly blue sky without a cloud in sight. There's a real Wrath of the Titans movie poster in one scene with a date on it!! (OMG that's a no-no by Hollywood standards for reasons I won't elaborate on). One of the songs (half in English, half in Hindi) called 'That's All I Really Wanna Do' may as well be a commercial for Lipton Tea or the new Mazda car, the words come up on the screen and fly around.
And if any of that in any way negatively affected your opinion of this film, then you, clearly, didn't 'get it'.
I recently read that Kristen Stewart is the highest paid actress in Hollywood. That made me want to cry and not watch Hollywood films anymore. If I saw her on the street I wouldn't look twice. Priyanka and Shahid could be the hottest actress/actor combination ever. They reek of stardom. They ooze energy and life.
Priyanka is so in love she hits herself in the face with a rose. As Shahid's father urges him to rethink his marriage to a Hindu widow as he can marry up to 4 wives by Muslim law, he, without stopping for a second proclaims "Then I will marry Aradhana 4 times" as Rahat Fateh Ali Khan wails "Moula Jaane" in the background. This is a ridiculously powerful film. It doesn't care about petty film terminology, it is concerned with love only.
I gave this film 10 stars if that means anything. It will make you laugh... maybe cry. It will always make you smile and most of all it'll bring back the energy you lost watching 'Salmon Fishing in the Yemen'.
Watch this movie ANYWAY.
I've watched dozens of epic bollywood films from 3 idiots to Dil Chahta Hai to Ishq: This quite possibly could be the best though.
If you reviewed this title and gave it a low score you probably didn't quite 'get it'. It's not about the scene chronology, it's not about the suspense or build up, it's not about the cinematography. This movie in fact is unabashedly unrealistic in places. There's a scene that highlights this with priyanka and shahid dancing in the rain underneath a perfectly blue sky without a cloud in sight. There's a real Wrath of the Titans movie poster in one scene with a date on it!! (OMG that's a no-no by Hollywood standards for reasons I won't elaborate on). One of the songs (half in English, half in Hindi) called 'That's All I Really Wanna Do' may as well be a commercial for Lipton Tea or the new Mazda car, the words come up on the screen and fly around.
And if any of that in any way negatively affected your opinion of this film, then you, clearly, didn't 'get it'.
I recently read that Kristen Stewart is the highest paid actress in Hollywood. That made me want to cry and not watch Hollywood films anymore. If I saw her on the street I wouldn't look twice. Priyanka and Shahid could be the hottest actress/actor combination ever. They reek of stardom. They ooze energy and life.
Priyanka is so in love she hits herself in the face with a rose. As Shahid's father urges him to rethink his marriage to a Hindu widow as he can marry up to 4 wives by Muslim law, he, without stopping for a second proclaims "Then I will marry Aradhana 4 times" as Rahat Fateh Ali Khan wails "Moula Jaane" in the background. This is a ridiculously powerful film. It doesn't care about petty film terminology, it is concerned with love only.
I gave this film 10 stars if that means anything. It will make you laugh... maybe cry. It will always make you smile and most of all it'll bring back the energy you lost watching 'Salmon Fishing in the Yemen'.