Dec 03, 2010 10:59 AM
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I admit that I have not seen a single movie made by Mr. Sanjay Leela Bhansali in theaters. I always brought them home to watch on PC or DVD. After Sawariya, which I have not seen at all, I never saw any movie from the guy. Yesterday I was forced to accompany my friends to see Guzarish. I admit that I was skeptical.
Mr. Bhansali is a kind of painter, art of whom I'd admire. I close my eyes and I still see the beautiful landscape he created in front of me yesterday. The colors faded in each other, to create a flowing charisma. May it be the scene where he shows the magic, may it be when they show his accident, may it be when there is a clean focus on his mother's face at the time of petition, may it be the time when he comes out of his house to go to the court; every color is there, and each one makes its presence felt. He has a knack of using such bright colors, this adds to beauty of his art. I fell for the presentation he did, the emotions he captured, so subtle, so surreal.
It’s a director’s job to make sure the cast acts the way he intends to present it on screen, and he has done the job splendidly. All the actors have justified the roles they are in. The whole movie has an air of melancholy. But at the same time, the movie is never a complete tearjerker. It touches you when it’s sad, you'd never know how softly a tear rolled out of your eye, involuntarily. Aha, but at the same time there would be bursts of occasional laughter to keep the mood alight and flowing. Maintenance of decorum is part of actors’ job description and he does it well, so well that you can not imagine any other actors of the industry performing those roles.
Having acknowledged the beautiful positivity of it, let me also say that the movie has several things which are unnecessary. It seems to have added just to make the length near 2 hours 30 minutes. This movie appears too slow at points and it does not go ahead at all. Also we could have expected an intellectual debate in the case filed for euthanasia, but that does not happen. In fact the case was the most disappointing aspect of it. Mr. Bhansali had the chance to exploit the possibility but I guess he chose not to. The songs are not so catchy to be remembered after a day or two. What I'm pointing out here are not deal breakers; just hindrances in the complete feel of the movie.
As I had said earlier on FB, I’d say this was a Beautiful Poem, verses of which seemed to have extended a little
