All Gloss, Substance at Loss. Review on Paheli

It was a night, moon was looking full, and clouds were scattered. An old lady first saw the moon then the cloud then she took both in her hands and suddenly shower started. Moon was looking beautiful in combination with clouds. A parrot asked her why she took both? She told I took them away becuase I needed lamp in my house and clouds to have a goodbedsheet. Parrot was amused with her reasoning! Still she took both, and still I told you a story! The Old lady had long parrot shaped nose, and she thrilled the heart with fear. But finally what this meant? story?

Same thing happend with Paheli, where you have got all characters, who had been told that stand at your position and keep on doing something something, and when someone asks for reasoning, simply tell anything. It will be justified. Villian has to give villanic logic, Hero to give romantic logic, Heroine(if feminist) has to say anything feminist, and this will end the movie with an artistic and well thought philosphical end notes!

The movie fumbles in pathetic state. The Ghost tells Husband, ''Aurat ke Mann me Jo Preet Howe Hai, Main Wohi Hoon'', now kindly define what is her preet and feelings, and what her husband did the fault, just in one day and one night that she did not even bother to reconsider her decision to entertain the Ghoast as part time Husband? And if the director had to still jsutify his act then he should have shown the husband completely dark, instead of carrying the Bairs for her beloved wife, remembering and singing birahan song for her.

This is a story which has no ethics, but still it has been presented with an attempt to show the grace while it has no. It's a story where reverse logic has been heavily loaded and relied upon the visuals, casts, and incoherent dialogues! It's a story of low morality, it's a story where infidelity has been tried to give a look of love!

Such story happens were frequently in lower strata of society and upper strata of society, where the husband goes to his work or office and wise gets into the bed with other man! The difference is just that here she is Rani and the other man is Shahrukh. But definitely this is not love. This is not what Shahrukh tried to preach in Veer Zara where he waits for her love till his older days! Paheli is fully and heavily confused movie and a black spot on Amol Palekar's carrier as well as Rani's.

The movie has only few things good and appreciable like visuals, few songs , Rajpal Yadav and Anupam Kher. I don't know for what they roped in Amitabh Bachchan, Suniel Shetty, Juhi etc? Just for face value? or it's a desperate attempt to give a disgraced movie some grace using some gloss.

Immensely forgettable movie.