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Why are all the reviews so goddamn depressing? I want this movie to do really well!
And what do they mean by its LONG? Is it longer than Jodha Akbar?😕
And what do they mean by its LONG? Is it longer than Jodha Akbar?😕
Expectations! There are loads of expectations from Mausam. Reasons? Well, it marks the directorial debut of veteran actor Pankaj Kapoor. Shahid Kapoor comes back nearly after 2 years (omitting Milenge Milenge) onto the silver screen. Shahid Kapoor and Sonam Kapoor are paired opposite each other for the first time ever. The film has taken two years into its making being constantly involved in various controversies from the very beginning. And lastly, father Pankaj Kapoor and son Shahid Kapoor, two perfectionists in their own right, are working together for the first time ever. So does the film live up to all the hype and expectations? NO!
Mausam's story takes the help of four different seasons. Starting off its first season with a mere adolescent attraction between a Punjabi boy Harry, and a Kashmiri girl Aayat, in a small village of Punjab, it develops into young love between them in the second season. Their love realizes its own depth in the hours of separation through season three. And in the fourth and final season their love culminates into togetherness. But not before sacrificing a lot personally and learning the truth behind universal love...
Well, undoubtedly, Mausam is a visual treat. It's one of the best looking films Bollywood has produced in the recent years. The film starts off with the traditional style of romance between Shahid and Sonam's characters in a small village of Punjab which is easily the best part about the film. The innocence, simplicity, situational humor, and Shahid – Sonam's chemistry makes it nothing less than a treat to watch. In fact, the first 40 minutes further raises your expectations from the rest of the film. But sadly thereon, the film only dips, dips, and dips! The biggest problem of this film is – its pace! Yes, the film looks extremely artistic. However, when a film starts making you feel exhausted rather than entertained, you do realize the difference. The first half of the film is still bearable due to its entertaining initial 40 minutes, and the beautiful Scotland locales in the latter. However, it's the second half where the film ruins it all. There are just too many separations and issues occurring in their lives, which not only makes the film extremely repetitive but also very tedious on the audience. In fact, the scene in which they finally meet in the end should have been a breathtaking moment. But you really don't care about them anymore by then! The love story goes through various hindrances touching the Kashmir, Mumbai, Ahmadabad riots and even the 9/11 twin tower blasts. Frankly, what is the need of involving so many incidents in one love story? Are they really so damn unlucky? The amount of twists and turns in this film makes you feel that you're watching an Indian television soap. Also, without revealing too much, the climax just seems outright stupid and ridiculous! Adding up to the stupidity, is Shahid Kapoor's 'superhero' act in the end. What on earth was all that about??
A lot more was expected from the veteran actor Pankaj Kapoor's directorial debut. Sadly, he doesn't live up to them at all! The screenplay written by him is in simple words, boring! The main hero of Mausam, except Shahid Kapoor, is its cinematographer Binod Pradhan, absolutely brilliant work! The music byPritam Chakraborty is a delight to hear. The background score is also worth mentioning, which matches up to every scene appropriately. Moving on to the actors, this is undoubtedly Shahid Kapoor's best performance till date. AfterAamir Khan and Hrithik Roshan, Shahid Kapoor has proved to be the next star perfectionist giving in flawless performances with every film. From the dialect of a typical Punjabi village boy to the disciplined mannerisms of an Air force officer, he has got it all right! If the movie is even a tad bit watchable, it's thanks to Shahid Kapur. Besides the fact that Sonam Kapoor is the lead heroine of the film, she doesn't have much to do in comparison to Shahid. In fact it's hard to even remember any of her dialogues. Yes, she has improved compared to her previous films. But sadly, it still doesn't seem enough. In fact, she seems quite fake and expressionless at times. However, she does look breathtakingly beautiful. Supriya Pathak needs no praises! She's simply terrific. And a surprise package is in the form of Aditi Sharma who plays Rajjo, the girl madly in love with Shahid Kapoor. Nice work!
Overall, this is one of those mausam's which might look beautiful from the outside, but once you get into that space, you realize what a big nuisance it actually is! In m opinion, it's the biggest disappointment of 2011!
| Mausam Opens Below The Mark
Friday 23rd September 2011 12.00 IST | |
Boxofficeindia.Com Trade Network
Mausam has opened to below the mark collections at multiplexes this morning. The multiplex opening is around 35-40% with select multiplexes in Delhi and Punjab having 50% plus collections.
Its the prime multiplexes in the North which have opened pretty well like DT and PVR cinemas in Delhi city and the PVR, DT, Wave multiplexes in Punjab. But these places are the exception rather than the rule.
Outside these North India prime multiplexes the opening was around the 30-35% mark be it Mumbai, Pune, Surat or Kolkata. The single screen opening is likely to be lower. | |
Mausam was not expected to open big but a slightly better opening than it has got was expected. The film should pick up over the weekend but the early public reports are mixed. | |
Shahid Kapoor is a young and happy-go-lucky Hindu boy living in a small town of Punjab. He meets a Kashmiri Muslim, Sonam Kapoor, and the two fall in love with one another. The two are separated soon and they meet after seven years in Scotland. But once again, they get separated. Do they ever meet after that? Find out in the review of Mausam.
Business Rating: 2/5 stars
Star cast: Shahid Kapoor, Sonam Kapoor, Supriya Pathak, Manoj Pahwa, Anupam Kher.
What's Good: The music; the performances of the lead actors.
What's Bad: The slow pace of the drama; the inclusion of too many events in the film; lack of emotional appeal; too many coincidences in the lives of Shahid and Sonam.
Verdict: Mausam lacks the heart-warming quality of a love story. However, it will do above-average business at the box-office.
Loo break: A couple in the second half.
Watch or Not?: Watch it for the songs and the performances of Shahid and Sonam.
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Eros International, Vistaar Religare Film Fund and Cinergy's Mausam is a love story of a Hindu boy, Harinder Singh alias Harry (Shahid Kapoor), and a Kashmiri Muslim girl, Aayat (Sonam Kapoor). Harry is a fun-loving boy who lives in Mallukot in Punjab. He is waiting for a call from the Indian Air Force where his future as a pilot lies. He meets Aayat for the first time at Mallukot when both are adolescents. Aayat, a Kashmiri Muslim, has come to live with her paternal aunt (Supriya Pathak) at Mallukot because of terrorist problems in Kashmir. Harry and Aayat fall in love with one another. Even as their romance is blossoming, Aayat leaves Mallukot all of a sudden one day. Harry has no information whatsoever about her as her aunt has also gone away with Aayat.
Seven years pass by. Harry is now an IAF pilot. His job takes him to Scotland where he meets Aayat again. Both are shocked to see each other. Aayat, her father (Kamal Nain Chopra) and now-widowed aunt have moved to Scotland. The romance between Harry and Aayat is rekindled. Even as they vow to live together after marriage, the Kargil war breaks out in India and Harry has to leave Scotland at the shortest possible notice. He is unable to even inform Aayat who was actually expecting him home for dinner that evening when he would also ask her father for her hand in marriage. A distraught Aayat comes looking for Harry in Mallukot but as he is still not back home, leaves a letter for him with Rajjo (Aditi Sharma), a girl who loved Harry but who has since gotten married to another boy. The letter never reaches Harry who then asks his sister in Switzerland to go to Scotland and contact Aayat. When all attempts to contact each other fail, Harry himself comes to Scotland but Aayat and family have, some weeks earlier, left Scotland.
Then, one day, out of the blue, Harry spots Aayat in Switzerland but takes her cousin to be her husband, and mistakes his child to be their child. Fate throws them together once again in Ahmedabad in India when communal riots break out there. Aayat is being chased by miscreants during the riots. Is Harry, whose left hand has since been paralysed, able to save Aayat or not? Do Aayat and Harry unite in matrimony?
The story, penned by Pankaj Kapur, is spread over a decade and more. Since the lovers keep meeting and getting separated, it follows the same path every time, making the drama repetitive and even boring. Pankaj Kapur's screenplay burdens the repetitive story with so much extraneous drama (war, riots, circumstances, coincidences and more coincidences, accident etc.) that the romantic story becomes rather unwieldy. Even the several tracks would've been acceptable had the pace been fast. But the film moves at such a leisurely pace that it not only tests the audience's patience but also raises questions in their minds about a number of issues. Since these questions have not been addressed, the viewer feels quite helpless. Also, with so much going wrong for both, Harry and Aayat, the audience, somewhere along the way, gives up and begins to actually question the many coincidences. Probably, the biggest drawback of the drama is that the audience feels no pain or sympathy for Harry and Aayat when they are unable to meet each other in spite of their concerted efforts. In any film on relationships, if the viewer is not going to feel bad when two lovers are separated, it is not a very happy situation. It would not be wrong to say that the writer has wasted too much time on the happenings around the two lovers and, in the process, missed out on the emotional part of the love affair. The cramming of too many events in the film make the drama tedious, long-winding and boring, especially after interval. Comedy is not upto the mark. Pankaj Kapur's dialogues are good.
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Shahid Kapoor acts with effortless ease, beautifully underplaying his character of an IAF pilot in search of his love. He looks very handsome in uniform and performs brilliantly. His dances are graceful as ever. Sonam Kapoor also looks pretty and delivers a dignified performance. Her acting is suitably restrained. Supriya Pathak does an ordinary job and is not half as wonderful as she usually is. Manoj Pahwa acts well in a role that doesn't have much significance. Aditi Sharma does a marvellous job as Rajjo. She is a fantastic actress. Kanika Mangkotya, as Harry's sister, lends very good support. Anupam Kher is wasted. Kamal Nain Chopra acts ably as Aayat's father.
Pankaj Kapur's direction is good but he takes too long to come to the point, because of which his narration looks laboured. A lot of things in the film look superficial. He has beautifully projected the atmosphere of life in the Punjab town. Pritam's music is excellent. Tashan and Rabba are the best songs and their picturisations (Ahmed Khan) are eye-filling. Yeh kaisa ishq hai is nice. 'Mallo Malli' is energetic. Lyrics (by Irshad Kamil) are nice. Cinematography (by Binod Pradhan) is very good. Stunts (Sham Kaushal) are okay. Sreekar Prasad's editing is alright.
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On the whole, Mausam does not have the heart-warming quality of a love story to gladden the hearts of the audience. It will not have a long run at the box-office although fetching commission should not be a difficult proposition in view of its weekend business.
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