Saawan - A Venerable Flop. Review on Saawan - The Love Season

SAAWAN

Film: SAAWAN

Cast: Salman Khan, Kapil Jhaveri, Saloni Aswani, Prem Chopra, Ranjeet, Bobby Darling, Kiran Rathod, Johny Lever

Directed by: Sawan Kumar Tak

If there is any movie, which is utterly predictable, it is Saawan. Starring the muscle heartthrob of the nation, Salman Khan; the film has otherwise quite ordinary actors. The film seems to be effectively divided into two halfs. The first interval concentrates on the courtship of the hero and the heroine, played by Kapil Jhaveri (Raj) and Saloni Aswani (Kajal). They seem to be the perfect pair - young, beautiful and dumb. The film is interspersed with chortles of laughter and fun with Johnny Lever and Bobby Darling playing extremely jocund characters.

Things get really serious in the second half of the movie. With that scintillating song featuring Salman Khan as the messenger of death, a whole new dimension is ushered into the movie. Salman Khan informs Kajal about the death of her father on a particular date at a particular time, which amazingly turns out to be true. Thereafter, Kajal is intent on knowing about her life and death and the mystic astrologer tells her about that too. This is where things really begin to take a turn. Salman informs Kajal about the day of her death. This puts Kajal into a tizzy. She is determined to die a complete woman. Her boyfriend, Raj is not willing to accept the prophecy and refuses to believe anything that Kajal says about it. But all too often, the plot begins to don a very familiar and stereotypal characteristic. One can even predict the flow of events after a certain point of time. The starting as well as the ending are way too unrealistic and far fetched. Probably, director Sawan Kumar Tak should have raked his brain a little more in devising a better scene sequence. All in all, the film is aimed at the faint-hearted and could serve as a good means to kill time.