Taran Adarsh's trash review on *Swades*. Review on Indiafm

I think everyone would have read the review on the movie ?Swades? written by Taran Adarsh in the site ?Indiafm.com?. And I am happy to see every other review in MS is making a point about Taran?s biased review on the movie which the movie doesn?t deserve. As I have also been a regular viewer of this site to read his reviews because it is where we can find very first review on any movie or music album (Excluding Mouthshut) here are my thoughts about his unethical reviews on quality movies and music albums of bollywood.

And recently he has posted another article as ?Dear Asutosh? in the site. In the article he says that Asutosh called him on last Sunday and accepted his review. I think Taran realized that his negative review has gained a bad name for him and to please his readers and other film personalities whom he call his close friends, he has written an open letter to Asutosh praising Asutosh for accepting his mistake to him. Eventhen he didn't accept that he has done a mistake in writing a negative review on the movie but he is proud about that Asutosh himself has accepted his review. Who knows whether Asutosh really called him or not?

The film critics have a very important role to play in shaping up the film industry. With the advent of IT and internet, the fast reaching reviews from the sites get more attention than the reviews from any newspapers and magazines. When a reviewer knows that the review he is posting is going to be the first review on the movie in the media he should be cautious and keen in putting right analysis on the movie so that it neither encourages a bad effort nor it discourages a good effort. He should be working as an isolated body without any influence of any prejudices.

He should watch the movie with an open mind and come up with what he liked and what he didn?t and what is good and bad honestly. He should not categorize the movie as commercial movie, documentary or an art film. Be it any, a movie a movie and it is only the people who has to judge the movie and make it a success or a flop. He should not say that movie will be a flop in the very first review and for that matter he shouldn?t find faults in a good movie and exaggerate it far and wide. He can predict the success / failure but he is not the person to declare the success/ failure of the movie.

But this man the most read reviewer ?Taran Adarsh? does everything what a true critic should not do. Indiafm.com is a complete portal on bollywood and you get information about anything and everything about bollywood at one stop but the biggest black mark of the site is the reviews by Taran Adarsh and that makes the situation even worse as most of them visit this site just to read reviews than anything else.

Some of the lines that I would like to quote from his ?Swades? review

?SWADES disappoints big time. The story of SWADES would've been ideal for a documentary?

?SWADES is high on hype, low on substance and extremely low on entertainment?

How foolish to say that the movie is low on substance. It is the substance which drives the whole movie even with a wafer thin plot. I know people who are watching the movie more than once and who will watch more than once which is extremely low in entertainment. And even in my case, I have already seen it twice and won?t regret watching it again.

?And the incidents in the narrative - SRK visiting a faraway village to recover money from a farmer and learning of his miseries, later bringing in electricity to the village, then his decision of returning to the U.S. - are not the type that would involve you completely.?

Which we all Mouthshut members and almost every other citizens and critics in India felt as the most touching core scenes of the movie are not good according to this great critic.

?You anxiously await the climax of SWADES [partly because LAGAAN had an exhilarating finale] with bated breath, but again, the culmination to the story is sans anything exciting. It's tame and dull.?

What better climax does he expect from the movie? Does he want Shah Rukh to play cricket with NASA workers to grant him the resignation? It is simply idiotic saying the climax is dull and tame. We can?t expect the same kind of tension building and nail biting moments in every movie. It all depends on the subject and the theme of the movie. Can we think of any better end to the movie?

?Gowariker's intentions of depicting the problems of rural India may be noble, but it's not too great an idea of entertainment, specifically for that viewer who is thirsting for entertainment and believes in sunshine/feel-good/escapist cinema.?

Watch out Hindi film goers he is degrading the taste of yours? He is saying the Indian audience has a cheap taste and likes only escapist cinema. Every movie cannot entertain you on the same level; this movie is beyond all those entertaining elements. It has ample amount of emotions in it and makes one think, it makes your heart heavy when you leave the cinema halls especially the NRI?s, the movie is a spark of awakening.

?Clearly, there's not one track you carry home after the screening has concluded?

People are haunted by the visuals of the song ?Yeh jo desh? song and the Shehnai piece lingers in our mind even after leaving the hall. What a scrap comment on the music?

At the box-office, the film may appeal to a handful of critics [await the 5-star ratings!] and those who believe in this form of cinema, but for a majority of viewers, SWADES will be remembered as a good opportunity gone waste. Rating * ½ .

He himself knows that other critics will give 5 star to this movie but then why should he write degrading statements about the quality of the movie just for the matter that it is not as entertaining as Lagaan and has no usual commercial elements. He should have written a review praising the quality of the movie and should have questioned about whether this kind of realistic movies based on social issues will click with the audience as other critics have done.

His only point of writing review is business and he is never concerned about the quality of the movie. I think Asutosh should have made a call to Taran before he has written the review and should have given some money so that he could have given a positive review with 5 star rating. See how pathetic the situation in India is, to make media appreciate something which is already good as good we must give them money. Definitely many of the likes are misusing the freedom of speech in India.

I give 1 Star out of 5 for his review.

Just a week before he gave ?Musafir? 4 stars. Just see what kind of movies he is encouraging.

Anyone who has good command over English language can?t become a movie reviewer, he should also know what movie making is and he should have observed world cinema to be a critic of someone in the position as Taran Adarsh. He is nowhere near Kalil Mohammed or even our own MS writers like Kalil.rahman, amjad_muraf and many others who write honest reviews on movies with a balanced mind.

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