Comments on: Saawariya

By: ganga prasad

ganga prasad — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 11:42:41 +0000

i want to listen songs

By: Lalluram

Lalluram — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 18:26:58 +0000

Where is the promised OM Shanti Om review?

By: Darshana of Bollywhat

Darshana of Bollywhat — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 16:27:32 +0000

Maria – I really liked your review of Saawariya, you capture a lot of things about it so well.

I’m not such an SLB fan. I was encouraged by the first maybe 15 minutes of the movie, though — Rani’s character is beautiful and alive-seeming (at this point – I think we get too much of the same “worldly laughing” by the time we saw good bye to her), and seemed to promise a Tale. In particular I liked hearing that this town existed in her mind — I looked forward to kind of forgetting about that and then encountering it again.

But — I am still waiting. Nothing ever again to deliver the magic implied in that statement, to relate the story we’d seen to the mind of its teller. Too bad, I think the movie needed the further penetration power that might have come in that way.

I liked the character of Salman a great deal – it’s the center of gravity in the movie I’d say. And I enjoyed the sensations provided by the things about the movie you mention – its original visual world, costumes, and music – enough to see it a second time.

By: Pallavi

Pallavi — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 23:16:09 +0000

“To my eyes, I see a mix of Sonu Nigam and Hrithik.”
Spot on! It’s been bugging me for weeks!

By: Joseph Gonsalves

Joseph Gonsalves — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 11:58:54 +0000

Maria,
It pains me me to hear SLB called a ‘Maestro’—he’s perhaps the most over-rated director in the history of Indian cinema.This movie was truly atrocious.
I agree with the critic who said “Sanjay Leela Bhansali needs to be thwacked with a subtlety stick, much like Sakina messily beats carpets hanging around her.Everything is overblown and hyper-real in the director’s head, and there is no room for soft reality. The characters populating his movie, therefore, cannot sob without hysteria or laugh without sliding off a chair. A glare is held for ten minutes, a coy glance for five. And the dialogue is immeasurably grating, making the film’s sub-130 minute length seem twice as long.”

By: Phone Reviews » Saawariya

Phone Reviews » Saawariya — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 01:53:17 +0000

[...] Filmiholic wrote an interesting post today on SaawariyaHereâ€™s a quick excerptSaawariya November 9th, 2007 [IMG] Perhaps if I were still a swoony teenage girl, I would have loved this film unequivocally.Â All through high school, my boyfriend lived in the next town over from my aunt and uncle, down in Mexico.Â He would write once, sometimes twice a day.Â At first, before I taught myself Spanish, I could barely understand what he wrote, so my biology lab mate, Liz, would translate his letters in the lunchroom, as my little freshman girlfriends and I oohed and aahed ov [...]