What worked:
- the story is beautiful; a love story filled with many ups and downs, twists and turns. It's a package for a Bollywood romantic movie. It's sad at times and joyful at other. Overall a movie about love that was intended to transcend the ethics and welcome love. Watching it with your lover keeps you attached and emotional.
- screen time; it's a long movie which needed necessarily to be cut down by a huge chunk. The scenes are repetitive, overbearing, long and theoretically emotional. I would have cut down the songs plus many scenes in the second half.
- overly done; the melodrama and the emotional setting in the second half of the movie is so persistent that you feel like you are watching an Indian soap opera. It drags the scenes, situations and emotions, ultimately makes you sad not by the movie narrative but also by the mood and gloominess of the scenes. It's like an ideal love story written for the best seller.