Sawan - A wasted opportunity. Review on Saawan - The Love Season

Come friends,

Lets go to Cape Town, South Africa. Nice locations. Isn't it? Can you see some Penguins there? Hey, here comes our Hero (Kapeel Jhevani) and Heroine (Saloni Aswani). Trying to find the meaning of coincidence and destiny, they fall in love. Can you see them dancing in those beautiful locations? The love story blooms. Their parents (Renjeet & Prem Chopra) are childhood friends both were poor, now become rich. So, no problem for the marriage. The engagement is fixed in Mumbai, in Saloni's birthday.

So, what are we doing in Cape Town? Take next flight and come to Mumbai. Meet our Super Star Hero Salman, who got a sim card from God, which only accept messages and cannot send messages. Mind you, God send only bad messages to him, so much so that he asking god, am I Yama's messenger? Salman saves Saloni from death with the help of God's message and immediately predict the death of her father. It happend as predicted by Salman, eventhough doctors had confirmed that her father is in good health. Bad for her, Isn't it? What to do?

Comon... take next flight, go to Dubai. Go for shopping at Ibn Battuta mall. Can't you see the good shopping mall? The heritage show there? A good belli dancing is arranged. Hero Heroine sing and dance. They went out for sight seeing, a desert safari with dune bashing and they are in good mood..... comes call from India, missed parents.... what to do? Take next flight to India.....

Comes a call from Saloni's relative to pick her daughter from School. Saloni agrees. When she reach school, the students of the school is been taken hostage by few terrorists. Salman saves the life of school children from the terrorist who don't know to fire to a 5 meter distant object. With the help of God, even the dangerous terrorist cannot move the trigger of the Machine Gun... The child tell Saloni that she prayed for God and God sent Godman...

Now, suddenly Saloni want to know her destiny. Salman cannot say anything, because he can only tell what God give as a message. Salman make another prediction.... It also happens. Now She went to Salman again, to know about her destiny.....

Hey, now it is only few lines left. It is not correct to tell the whole story; right?

Frankly, Sawan The Love Season is an opportunity wasted. The idea of the script were promising. But failed to convert to a good script. Result? The film ends up as a below average fare.

Telling about the new comer hero heroine, Kapeel Jhevani could not make an impression, eventhough in some of the scenes he leaves few glimpses of hope. Saloni Aswani got more footage and she looks promising. Salman is good in his looks. Bad in dialogue delivery. In the first few scenes you simply think that he deliver dialogues as in dream. Sometimes you feel he is blind. But, in later few scenes he performs well. Johny Lever and Bobby Darling try to tickle your ribs, but not so affective. There is nothing much to write about rest of the cast, because there are hardly few left.

Music of the film is average. Had they promoted the songs well, it would have done good to the movie. At least 2 of the songs are good to listen.

Choreaography is strictly ok. Cinematography by Rajendra Prasad is average. But, the sequences in Dubai is been well shot and the Song at the Mall is very well executed with nice and rich colour.

There is nothing much to say about the script and the dialogues.

Direction is not upto mark.

The film is only less than 2 hours in time. An additional angle of Salman - Saloni love (previous life love or some angle of that kind) could have been easily accomodated. The film gives a hint that she is somehow connected to Salman. But, fail to explain what.

An accepted young hero like Akshay Khanna or Abhishek Bhachan in the lead would have made a difference.

Except for few good songs and some good locations, Sawan The Love Season is an opportunity wasted.