Saawariya by Sanjay Leela Bhansali

Category: Hindi

Dated by a few years I am sure, but this film had to come here some day, why? Because there's Sonam Kapoor in this one, and also because I had to eventually destroy Sanjay Leela Bhansali, somehow, somewhere!

Basically Bhansali is like Michael Jackson barring the fact that he's still alive. Why? Because he's living in such a delusional and child like world that he should be stopped from making such films, films like these are the reason why people are fine with anything they throw at us today. Someone said the biggest strength of Bhansali is his strength and I have to say it's quite probably the biggest reason why he's a crappy director, he moves away from reality right at the onset, fair enough he adapts a short story by Fyodor Dostoevsky but he doesn't even do justice to anyone's understanding of cinema.

There's tons of melodrama and there's a lot of rubbish thrown in for good measure, characters which could be good actually end up becoming repulsive and annoying. Then comes the music which isn't at all engrossing, the set design is rich but what the fuck, French films in the 1920's had better set production than this. So basically his strong points are also his weakest...

Oh yeah the film is about Raj falling in love with Sakina and her being in love with Imam and going with him in the end but there's also Gulabji there somewhere. Ranbir Kapoor is ok, Raani Mukherji and Salman Khan are really out of place here. Sonam Kapoor is the saving grace of this film. But heck...

Recommendation level: 1/5 - Just the 1 for Sonam Kapoor, if not 0/5.