First look of Dhoom 3’s Rs 5 crore song.
One of the most expensive songs ever created in Bollywood.
Excited?Stay Tuned!
One of the most expensive songs ever created in Bollywood.
Excited?Stay Tuned!
Dedh Ishqiya Official Theatrical Trailer
Check Out : Dedh Ishqiya Official Theatrical Trailer Ft. Madhuri Dixit, Naseeruddin Shah, Arshad Warsi & Huma Qureshi
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Film R... Rajkumar Shahid Kapoor and Probhu deva
Set for a December 6 release this year, the film also stars Sonakshi Sinha, Sonu Sood and Shraddha Kapoor (in an item number).
After his last film -- Phata Poster Nikla Hero -- failed miserably at the box office, think R... Rajkumar will be that elusive hit Shahid is looking for?
Krrish 3 latest posters and stills
Krrish 3 latest posters and stills
Actor Hrithik Roshan feels that Hollywood films like ‘The Avengers’ and ‘Iron Man 3′ have raised the bar for superhero movies but he is ready to face competition. “When we saw the look of ‘The Avengers’, ‘Iron Man 3′, ‘Superman’… it was awesome… they had raised the bar… They have taken it to another level. We had to stand up and face competition, ” Hrithik told reporters here at the trailer launch of ‘Krrish 3′.
“Why not compete with them and find out what we can do, ” he said. ‘Krrish 3′ has Hrithik, Priyanka Chopra, Kangna Ranaut and Vivek Oberoi in lead roles.
The film boasts of special effects, which director Rakesh Roshan decided to get it done here to encourage and promote local talent. Even as everyone is looking forward to the release, Hrithik wants to keep everything relating to the movie under wraps.
“I would not like to talk about my powers… want to keep it a suspense, ” he said. In the third installment of this superhero series, Vivek and Kangana are the new additions. They both play antagonists. “I loved working with the Roshans. . they are genuine, large hearted.
I believe if you have a legendary director like Rakesh Roshan then you can play any character convincingly, it is his brilliance… he has created the character, ” Vivek said.
“The credit goes to writers and Rakesh sir, ” he said. It was Hrithik, who wanted to play the evil character played by Vivek but the director was not convinced. “I wanted to play the villian.
I think my dad was biased. But thank God I am not playing Vivek’s role as after looking at him on screen I feel only he could do this. He has done a phenomenal job, ” Hrithik said. Kangana too is happy to play a negative character.
“For the first time playing a negative role… I have an unconventional look. I am sexy but wicked. I enjoy being called sexy, ” she said. The film is set to release on November 4.
Actor Hrithik Roshan feels that Hollywood films like ‘The Avengers’ and ‘Iron Man 3′ have raised the bar for superhero movies but he is ready to face competition. “When we saw the look of ‘The Avengers’, ‘Iron Man 3′, ‘Superman’… it was awesome… they had raised the bar… They have taken it to another level. We had to stand up and face competition, ” Hrithik told reporters here at the trailer launch of ‘Krrish 3′.
“Why not compete with them and find out what we can do, ” he said. ‘Krrish 3′ has Hrithik, Priyanka Chopra, Kangna Ranaut and Vivek Oberoi in lead roles.
The film boasts of special effects, which director Rakesh Roshan decided to get it done here to encourage and promote local talent. Even as everyone is looking forward to the release, Hrithik wants to keep everything relating to the movie under wraps.
“I would not like to talk about my powers… want to keep it a suspense, ” he said. In the third installment of this superhero series, Vivek and Kangana are the new additions. They both play antagonists. “I loved working with the Roshans. . they are genuine, large hearted.
I believe if you have a legendary director like Rakesh Roshan then you can play any character convincingly, it is his brilliance… he has created the character, ” Vivek said.
“The credit goes to writers and Rakesh sir, ” he said. It was Hrithik, who wanted to play the evil character played by Vivek but the director was not convinced. “I wanted to play the villian.
I think my dad was biased. But thank God I am not playing Vivek’s role as after looking at him on screen I feel only he could do this. He has done a phenomenal job, ” Hrithik said. Kangana too is happy to play a negative character.
“For the first time playing a negative role… I have an unconventional look. I am sexy but wicked. I enjoy being called sexy, ” she said. The film is set to release on November 4.
HOW ‘BA PASS’ COUPLE PREPARED FOR THEIR LOVE SCENES
Before shooting intimate scenes, Ajay Bahl instructed the lead actors of his next to refrain from speaking to each other. Usually before filming a lovemaking scene, the director in command hopes that his actors know each other enough to be comfortable once the cameras start rolling. But the director of the upcoming BA Pass had a slightly different plan leading to some awkward moments on the sets.
Ajay Bahl didn’t want Shilpa Shukla and Shadab Kamal to talk to each other. So much so that he once even reprimanded them for hanging out on the sets together. ‘Not only Shilpa, I even instructed the ADs (assistant directors) to stay away from Shadab.
I wanted him to feel like an outsider in the room. I have to admit that I was bit of a tyrant. No wonder I often cracked the Chak De! India dialogue: Agar iss team mei koi gunda hai toh mai hoon,’ quips the debutant filmmaker.
So what exactly was the idea behind maintaining off-screen distance between the protagonists? ‘It was for a reason. There’s no closeness as such between them in the film.
Even the physical intimacy they have is more perfunctory than anything. The attraction is basically from the guy’s end whereas Shilpa’s character Sarika is way too cold. So my plan was to make sure familiarity doesn’t seep into the frame and ruin this factor,’ sums up Ajay.
MUST WATCH! MOVIE “CALAPOR” IS IN CINEMAS TODAY
Calapor is a thriller film produced by A. Durga Prasad and by directed by Dinesh P. Bhonsle. The film is a taut thriller, set in the backdrop of a jail. It is a modern story of reformation. The film provokes thoughts about the nature of human being while infusing hope that there is good in every human being. The film is slated for August 02, 2013 release.
When a reluctant Jyotsna, an artiste with her assistant Ragini arrive in Calapor Central Jail to conduct an art program for prison inmates, initiated by a very sincere and committed reformist Jail Superintendent, Karunakar, the agonizing past of a criminal husband who cheated her and a delinquent son who ran away, returns to torment her. With adversity comes an opportunity; a second chance that Jyotsna as a mother cannot afford to lose or fail to succeed.
Cast:-
Rituparna Sengupta
Priyanshu Chatterjee
Raghubir Yadav
Harsh Chhaya
P. Subbaraju
Aziz Naseer
Binny Sharma
Aakash Sharma
Hemant Gopal
Anjan Srivastav
Minaxi Martins
Kumar shivam
MOVE OVER NEETU! RANDEEP-ADITI ARE ALREADY DATING
It seems the former ‘Murder 3′ co-stars Randeep Hooda and Aditi Rao Hydari are the newest couple in Bollywood. It’s not been long that Randeep Hooda broke up with his long-term girlfriend Neetu Chandra. But looks like he has wasted no time in apparently moving ahead in his love life. According to insiders, the actor is currently dating his Murder 3 co-star Aditi Rao Hydari.
Sources say the two have been together and going steady since the past few months. A source says, ‘Randeep and Aditi met each other while shooting the film and eventually got to know each other.’
They started with chatting on the sets and gradually got comfortable in each other’s company. Buzz about a rift between Randeep and his next had been doing the rounds for a while. While initially both kept denying it, the actor recently admitted to being single.
Over the past five or six months the duo has apparently remained in touch. Although Randeep keeps travelling a lot for his various work commitments, Aditi and he are regularly talking to one another.
However, since they are still taking their own time to understand each other, they are not yet ready to speak about their special friendship,’ adds the source.
While Aditi too was reluctant to speak about her troubled marriage previously, only recently did she admit to having separated from her husband, Satyadeep Mishra. While Randeep said, ‘Not true’ to the buzz about his alleged romance, Aditi remained unavailable for comment.
Movie Review: D-Day is a thrilling affair
By Subhash K Jha
Cast: Rishi Kapoor, Irrfan, Arjun Rampal, Huma Qureshi, Shruti Haasan, Sriswara, Aakaash Dahiya, Nasser and Chandan Roy Sanyal
Director: Nikhil Advani
Rating: * * * *
Fragrant pencils and the stench of blood... Irrfan's character identifies flavoured pencils with his undying love for his son even when his life is soaked in the blood of traitors and other modern-day heroes. Funny, how two entirely disparate experiences can co-exist in a work of art!
And make no mistake, Nikhil Advani's sixth feature film is an acutely accomplished work of art. It's a thriller, yes. About the enforced extradition of a Dawood-like gangster.
But what I came away with was a haunting love story between a mysterious Indian intelligence agent and a Pakistani sex worker, both wounded and scarred for life. She in ways that we can see. He in intangible ways. But pain, at the end of the day, is pain. It's what binds together the sex-worker and the ex-army man.
Shot in an expertly constructed brothel sets with the crowded colours of lurid sex suggesting the tragedy of lives lived in borrowed beds, the scenes between Arjun Rampal and Shruti Haasan are punctured by piercing silences and a haunting melody about love, loss and incomplete lives sung by Rekha Bharadwaj.
Later, much later, the girl is tortured to painful death by a sadistic butcher, gleefully played by Chandan Roy Sanyal.
In one of the most innovative editing techniques applied to a Hindi cinema (editors Aarif Sheikh and Unni Krishnan can take a bow), we see the scarred prostitute's torture and death through Arjun Rampal eyes as though he were there when it happened, when he was not.
And in the background a haunting Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy song "Alvida" plays with assertive evocativeness, reminding us that the end of love is always death.
The love story could have been the entire script of Advani's film. But "D-Day" -- odd title since the antagonist is no more named Dawood -- has a lot more to say, and it says it with in a tone of unfussy enrapturing elan that invites us into its midst without using gimmicky methods of enticement.
The screenplay by Advani, Ritesh Shah and Suresh Nair constructs a collage of characters hell-bent on a collision course. Though rigorously researched, the erudition sits easily, spontaneously and unobtrusively on Advani's narration.
The story of a bunch of RAW agents on a mission in Pakistan to nab "India's Most Wanted" is told in a tone that favours a detached distance from the proceedings while ensuring we see each character's life in prismatic close-ups.
Though a deeply patriotic film, "D-Day" indulges in no flag-waving. The Indian flag makes one guest appearance, and that too at the end. God bless Manoj Kumar.
Every character in "D-Day", even the dreaded caricatural Bhai (the don named, ha ha, Goldman), is a prisoner of his own lost dreams and aspirations.
The RAW heroes are thrown in our face without elaborate preamble. The very attractive Huma Qureshi as the RAW agent Zoya has her personal life in shambles. But we never see her unhappy husband. We only hear him. And we're happy that he speaks about their distressed relationship in the voice of the very talented Raj Kumar Yadav.
Every character, visible or invisible, speaks to us in urgent desperate tones. And within 20 minutes of the playing-time we're consumed by these doomed lives that seem to have lived on the edge forever and have nowhere to go except the abyss.
With astonishing impunity Advani sketches half-finished all his characters. These are people whose dreams can never come true.
The film's deep affinity to the business of unfinished lives gives a cutting edge to Advani's narration. As the plot progresses, the narration gets only more and more involving and intriguing until from Karachi we reach breathlessly to the Indian side of the Indo-Pak border where Rishi Kapoor gives a sneering contemptuous speech on the Indian government's inability to control terrorists and terrorism.
This is as good a place as any to say "D-Day" is crammed with remarkable actors furnishing the anxious proceedings with a riveting life-force.
Rishi as the gangster is, of course, first-rate. When is he anything less? While conveying the sinister slimy side of the gangster, Rishi also gives a comic interpretation to the rotund goggled perpetrator of mayhem. Yup, this guy is having himself a blast.
The other actors too are entirely in their element. Arjun and Shruti's tragic love story is played by the actors in muted mellow muffled shades. Arjun seems to become a more evolved actor with every role. As for Irrfan, his portrayal of a man on a suicidal mission trying to hold on to the memory of his wife and son is so vivid you can touch his anguish.
Newcomer Sriswara is extremely credible as Irrfan's wife, while Huma as the third member of the RAW team is effortlessly appealing and effective.
Newcomer Akaash Dahiya as the fourth RAW team-member is so much on the edge, you want to hold him back from toppling over.
The cinematography by Tushar Kanti Ray uses cluttered garish spaces to create a sense of spiritual emptiness during times of tremendous stress and anxiety. This is a film with world-class action scenes. But it is not an action film. It's a film about love and loss. But it isn't a love story.
So what is it we are looking at here? Go find out for yourself. With this one film, Advani joins the ranks of the most accomplished young filmmakers of Hindi cinema and by far Karan Johar's Dharma Productions proudest product.
Ramaiya Vastavaiya D-Day
"Ramaiya Vastavaiya" is a romance film directed by Prabhu Deva. The film introduces producer Kumar Taurani's son Girish Kumar, opposite Shruti Haasan. It will be a remake of Prabhu Deva's directorial debut Telugu blockbuster Nuvvostanante Nenoddantana which in turn was inspired by the 1980s romantic cult movie Maine Pyaar Kiya. Nuvvostanante Nenoddantana was also unofficially remade in Nepali as Pharkera Herda (The Flashback) in 2010 starring Nikhil Upreti, Aaryan Sigdel, Yuna Upreti and Neer Shah through Gopi Krishna Movies. It was also remade into Tamil with the title Something Something... Unakkum Enakkum and also in Bengali which was called I Love You which saw the introduction of Dev.
Both are great!
Happy Movie Watching
Ramaiya Vastavaiya releases on 19 July
Review of "Bhaag Milkha Bhaag" by Dipashri Bardhan
(A Winsome Story Of Discipline & Hard Work !!)
FLASHBACK: Sometime around the year 1992, Kolkata ;
Question: Who was the first president of Independent India?
Answer: Rajendra Prasad.
Question: Which cloud is responsible for rain?
Answer: Nimbus Clouds.
Question: Lemon is the source of which Vitamin?
Answer: Vitamin C.
Question: Who is called 'Flying Sikh' ?
Answer: Milkha Singh.
I stopped for a while.Was reading General Knowledge for an upcoming exam in school, when I was in 5th Standard.Closed the book, looked outside the window & started thinking that how can a man be termed as 'flying' ? Is he an expert pilot or loves to jump all the time, so that he can stay in the air as much as he can? Opened the book again to get a clue, but, that small general knowledge book was only full of questions which were written in a sentence & their respective answers, written in a word or two words maximum.
Had to wait till night, when my father returned home from office.Asked him the same.He solved the mystery with a smiling face, "Here the word 'fly' stands for 'run'.Milkha Singh can run with such a great speed, that it looks like as if he is flying like a bird, almost as fast as a stormy wind.Thats why he won most of the races he ran & rightly termed as Flying Sikh" !!
MOVIE: Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra Pictures & Viacom 18 Motion Pictures' 'Bhaag Milkha Bhaag' mesmerizes the audience with the dramatic life of India's legendary athlete Milkha Singh.Being a biopic, this cinematic sparkle glitters with several shades of human expressions-Pain + Happiness + Romance + Anger + Frustration + Defeat & Victory !! Thanks to all the promotions (especially that teaser trailer which was released on 29th November, 2012) that the expectation encircling this movie enviably crossed the barrier.However, such expectation always comes accompanied by it's two offsprings-
1) Great possibility to score high at Box Office collections in the opening weekend & 2) If the story fails to click at public's heart, then a probability of the same success graph falling down miserably, in the next or following weekends !!
So, let me assemble the positive & negative points of 'Bhaag Milkha Bhaag' to find out whether the film is value for money or not !!
'LIKE's: The movie marked a fascinating impression terms of;
1) Story-Screenplay-Dialogue-Lyrics: Prasoon Joshi
2) Music: Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy
3) Cinematography: Binod Pradhan
4) Hair Design: B.Blunt
5) Set Design: Sumit Basu
6) Appropriate selection of all the actors/actresses: Aadore Mukherjee & Dilip Shankar (Casting Directors)
7) Choreography: Ganesh Acharya, Shiamak Davar & Vaibhavi Merchant Costume Design: Dolly Ahluwalia
9) Action sequences: Allan Amin
10) Acting: Standing Ovation to Farhan Akhtar for giving a clap worthy performance.Besides, Divya Dutta, Sonam Kapoor, Prakash Raj, Yograj Singh, Jabtej Singh, Meesha Shafi, Pawan Malhotra etc. also supported the script well.
11) Direction: Finally, Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra's masterly narration glittered the entire photoplay with three key ingredients:
a) EARTH: In many scenes,for example: The speedy running sequences or, Romancing in a sandy sea beach or Simply falling on ground after an extensive physical exhaustion, the smooth & rough particles of Earth have been aesthetically used to bring that 'earthy' touch in the lens of camera !!
b) WATER: Scenes like: Depicting a large mug or a bucket being filled up gradually with Milkha's sweat, thereby conveying the range of his dedication toward exercise + When a ball stuffed with Milkha/Biro's love letter dropped into a container full of water, then as an after effect the water droplets rose like a mini-fountain from that small container, along with portraying several colors defining each watery lines and attributing to the visual delight of the show !!
c) MASCULINITY: The outstanding representation of a well-built male figure through Farhan Akhtar's physique surely makes a great impact.Surprisingly, maximum people consider a flawless female figure as the last word of art (sculpture or painting). On the contrary, I have seen many people standing like a statue for hours in front of the replica of David (the sculptural masterpiece made by Michelangelo in 1504) in Victoria & Albert Museum, London.Also heard that the original one (kept in Florence, Italy) is so beautiful that people often start crying by merely staring at it.
The unique arrangement of Biceps + Triceps + Deltoid + Trapezius + Extensor + Sternocleidomastoid + Rectus Abdominus + Brachialis + Serratus Anterior & Pectoralis Major (male muscular system of upper body) can arguably contribute to a better level of seductivity through machismo & thats again proved through Farhan Akhtar in 'Bhaag Milkha Bhaag'.
'DISLIKE's: 1) At times, the length (188 minutes) of the movie bores people.Saw some of the audience babbling or checking messages in their mobile at a few repetitive scenes.
2) Editing by P.S.Bharathi disappoints in first half of the film.
3) Make up design by Vikram Gaikwad is impressive barring those two close up shots of Sonam Kapoor where her eyebrows looked as neatly trimmed as a modern urban girl (for the absence of unwanted extra hair) + eyes quoted with kajal in her upper eyelids.That obviously added to her beauty but took away that required rustic appeal for village girls of that era (1950s) did not know how to trim eyebrow or used to paint kajal only in the lower eyelid.
CLOSURE: All said and done, 'Bhaag Milkha Bhaag' entrancingly upheld those lines of Roman Polanski: "Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theater".Such a wondrous filmic experience it is !!
Undoubtedly, it is Absolutely Recommended !!
Review by: Dipashri Bardhan
Got 5 out of 5 Stars! Don't miss 'Bhaag Milkha Bhaag' at any cost
Got 5 out of 5 Stars! Don't miss 'Bhaag Milkha Bhaag' at any cost
History is created in several ways. One of them is cinema. And if Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra's Bhaag Milkha Bhaag seems like a near-flawless homage to the flying spirit of India's greatest runner it is partly because the story, so nimbly woven into a pastiche of drama emotion humour and pathos by Prasoon Joshi, is in no hurry to keep pace with the on-screen Milkha's breathless sprint.
The story of super-sprinter Milkha Singh unfolds in this exceptional bio-pic at its own volition. There's no effort here `to tell a story`, to create an impression or to whip up a dramatic storm to captivate audiences. The synergy in the storytelling seems subliminal.
Still, we the audience, fed week after week on mediocrity masquerading as cinema, are riveted to the story Milkha Singh for over 3 hours of playing-time?
How come? ! Well, to begin with it is Milkha Singh's own powerful life as India's superstar sportsperson that sweeps us into the bio-pic. Milkha was so poor he couldn't afford running shoes, and when he got them he didn't know how to run in them. When milk was offered in the army in exchange of running practice he grabbed it (the run and the milk) with both hands.
A victim of India's brutal Partition, Milkha's story was waiting to be told. Thankfully no one before Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra saw cinematic potential in Milkha's story.
If Milkha's story had to be told, the storyteller had to be a master craftsman, and one who doesn't waste space in self-congratulatory flourishes. Rakeysh Ompraksh Mehra reins in the drama.
With immense help from Prasoon Joshi, Mehra harnesses Milkha's life-story into an experience that is Pure Cinema and yet undiluted and uncompromised by the mandatory often silly illogical and idiotic semantics of mainstream commercial cinema.
The absolutely seamless editing (by P. Bharathi) is impressive. The film is very stylishly cut. But not at the cost of losing the saadgi, the innate ascetism of the sportsman-hero.
And yes, there are songs, heart-gamboling songs composed by Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy. But they are so effortlessly woven into Milkha's saga we don't see them as 'song breaks'.
We see them as expressions of that innocent joy which springs out of Mehra's Milkha like milk from a cow's unconditionally nurturing udder.
And yes, this is as good a time as any to tell you, Farhan Akhtar dances the Bhangra as well as any Punjabi. Actually, he doesn't dance. He just flows with the rhythm. I've never seen any actor dance with such rhapsodic abundance. Neither have I seen any actor run like Farhan.
I don't know how fast Milka ran. But Farhan's Milkha doesn't fake it for even a second. When he runs, he really runs. When he stumbles and takes a fall we flinch and wince in our seats. Method acting? Farhan as Milkha takes us beyond that.
His body-language and emotion-expression as Milkha is so pitch-perfect (pun intended) we forget this is not the real Milkha in front of our eyes. Not since Balraj Sahni in Garam Hawa have we seen an actor vanish so effortlessly into his character. This is as real as it gets.
Poonam Pandey's debut film 'Nasha'
Poonam Pandey's debut film 'Nasha' is garnering enough buzz around it's release. Director Amit Saxena, who makes a comeback 10 years after 'Jism', talks about his experience working with newcomers Poonam Pandey and Shivam Patil, his ten-year long sabbatical, his future projects, 'Nasha 2' and more.
Bhaag Milkha Bhaag" coming to Theaters on July 12
Award-winning director Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra's latest motion picture "Bhaag Milkha Bhaag" has been heating up the music charts this summer with three smash hit songs with music from Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy. Opening on July 12 the Farhan Akhtar-Sonam Kapoor starrer tells the true story of India’s original sports hero Olympian Milkha Singh who became known as the “Flying Sikh" thanks to his incredible 96.5% winning ratio.
Review of Raanjhanaa A Distinctive Take On Love!
By: Dipashri Bardhan
PROEM: It was an intensely hued picture which showed a young boy standing with a fascinated glance in his eyes & a pretty girl portraying the semblance of cheerfulness amidst the vibrant colors of pink, green, yellow & red; thereby recreating the festival of Holi in a rectangular first look poster of the latest production from Eros International & Colour Yellow Pictures Ltd, in the cinematic name of 'Raanjhanaa' !!
Colors always attract the cone cells of our eyes.Also I felt curious about the movie after knowing that it belongs to romantic genre.'Love' is probably the only word in a Dictionary which neither can be explained in a sentence nor has any perfect synonyms.Today while watching this love story, I could virtually visualize that thought of Rose Franken: "Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.." !!
Let me illustrate this journey of 'Raanjhanaa' in the following paragraphs !!
MOVIE: Shot in the blissful backdrop of Benaras & urbanity of Delhi, 'Raanjhanaa' narrates a tale of love through Kundan (Dhanush), Zoya (Sonam Kapoor) & Akram/Jasjeet (Abhay Deol)..Kundan (a Tamil Brahmin boy) & Zoya (a muslim girl) were brought up in Benaras, where Kundan expressed his love for Zoya during his teenage days..After growing up, Zoya took admission in Jawaharlal Nehru University where she fell in love with an university student cum socialist Akram..What happens next ? Is the amorousness of Zoya destined to Kundan or Akram ? How much pain can be endured for the sake of love ?
Let those questions be answered after watching the movie, in silver screen !!
'LIKE's:
1) Cinematography by N. Nataraja Subramanian and Vishal Sinha is astounding + Editing by Hemal Kothari & Choreography by Bosco-Caesar are impressive + Story/Screenplay by Himanshu Sharma is a bit different than an usual romantic drama + Dialogues are extremely witty at many sequences + Acting by the leading & supporting casts are marvelous + Set design by Tariq Umar Khan is befitting + Direction by Anand L. Rai is appreciable !!
2) MUSIC: A big applause to A.R.Rahman for such an wonderful soundtrack (well supported by Irshad Kamil’s catchy lyrics) & appropriate background score..For example,
a) When Kundan showed his anger on Zoya for the first time, there the synthesizer chords fluctuated in a bizarre way to create the effect of displeasure & it was done repeatedly with different chords to break the harmony, so that audience could better relate to the scene.
b) In a gloomy conversation between Kundan & Zoya, where Kundan suddenly felt the ray of hope, he turned up his head towards Zoya..In that split second, Rahman used the rhythm of 'Tabla' in a tricky way to express Kundan's expectation which struck the heart of viewers too !!
3) A SPECIAL MENTION TO :
a) That scene where Zoya was about to leave Benaras by train with teary eyes & Kundan ran to meet her, multiple water patches were shown in the rail station, as if rain just happened, thereby subconsciously magnified the mood of separation since rains are often attributed to a heavy heart..
b) MakeUp Artists for giving Sonam the minimal touch up, which amplified the innocence of a face rather than glamour..Beauty can either flashes the eyes of a beholder like a mid-day sun or soothes the same like a morning dewdrop..Since the latter better suits the character of Zoya, so the lipstick/blusher/eye-shadow even eyeliners were absolutely unnecessary here apart from the marriage scene, where a loud make up was needed & make up experts also did the right job there by painting the line of eye-liner a bit above the corner of eyes + stark red lipstick..
'DISLIKE's: Very few are there, for example;
1) In the song 'Tum Tak', the lip movements of Dhanush were not synchronous with the voice of the playback singer..Looked like, the song was coming from a mike & the actor was just singing on his own..
2) First half was too romantic & at times, the efforts of Kundan to please Zoya looked silly..In Second half, the focus were more on politics, thereby concentration of romance got diluted by leadership activities..
3) Both Dhanush & Sonam looked misfit in the role of school going teenagers + Opening sequence was dull + Too much slapping on Kundan's face by Zoya ultimately invited humor rather than sympathy..That profound scene where Akram's mother was about to touch Kundan's cheek for greeting, I heard some boys laughing crazily behind my seat & saying, "Stop..Stop..No more slapping" !!
MESSAGE: There is a lyrics from the musical 'Cinderella' which says: "Do I love you because you're beautiful, Or, are you beautiful because I love you ?" !! One can easily relate this line to those love struck eyes of Kundan which glitter more than the pole star even in the shadow of Zoya..Of late, Zoya fell in love with Akram, because she considered 'Kundan part' as a childlike crush + Akram fitted the bill as per educational & social qualification..From here, the dilemma of selecting a lover/partner arrives, accompanied by a dialogue where Kundan's friend Murari (M. Z. Ayyub) told him that girls are more likely to marry Doctors/Engineers rather than ordinary boys of the same locality, since the question of love comes secondary to their mind..Obviously material satisfaction plays a vital role in such decisions..But, if an abstract force (love) plays a guest appearance in the same scenario & makes one cherish that pleasure somewhat like this: "To the world you might be one person, but to one person you might be the world", then should not one rise above the narrow parameters set by the society/religions ?
Once Tom Robbins said: “We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.." !! Life does not give us multiple chances..In this densely populated sphere of Earth, there is always a scarcity of those persons who can sacrifice his/her deepest desires to bring sunshine in the face of their loved ones..Don't let go that kind heart, if by chance you find him/her..
With the mellifluous touch of Shehnai, 'Raanjhanaa' sublimely delivered this tacit message in a pictorial way, making the film worth a watch !!
LAST WORDS: Along with showing the sparkling colors of a Holy city (Benaras), 'Raanjhanaa' tastefully painted a pale color too & thats the color of grey which often stays dormant in human minds and taints the negative aspects of an otherwise blameless person..Don't miss this film, if you believe in those lines of Loretta Young: "Love isn't something you find. Love is something that finds you..."
Absolutely Recommended !!
