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Aisha - Wogma Readers Reviews
Aisha
quick review:
Aisha has clueless characters breathing fresh air. Sonam Kapoor and Ira Dubey, try to carry this 'by women, for women' film, though it suffers from too plain a story. Director, Rajeshree Ojha has decent intentions but Aisha fumbles and stumbles downhill.
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4 readers have given Aisha
an average rating of 2/5.0
1 yays
2 nays
1 so-so
Aisha - Movie Details
- Official Sites: Website
- Banner: PVR Pictures, Anil Kapoor Films Company
- Producer: Anil Kapoor, Rhea Kapoor, Sanjeev Bijli, Ajay Bijli
- Director: Rajshree Ojha
- Lead Cast: Sonam Kapoor
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, Abhay Deol - Supporting Cast: Ira Dubey, Cyrus Sahukar, Lisa Haydon, Arunodhay Singh, Amrita Puri, Anand Tiwari, Vidhushi Mehra, Sameer Malhotra, Anuradha Patel, Yuri Suri, M K Raina, Masood Akhtar
- Story: Based on Emma by Jane Austen
- Screenplay: Devika Bhagat
- Dialogues: Devika Bhagat, Ritu Bhatia, Manu Rishi
- Cinematography: Diego Rodriguez
- Editor: Sreekar Prasad
- Background Score: Amit Trivedi
- Choreography: Ashley Lobo, Terrence Lewis, Firoz, Karan Boolani
- Music Director: Amit Trivedi
- Lyrics: Javed Akhtar
- Costume Designer: Kunal Rawal, Pernia Qureshi
- Running time: 130 minutes
- Reviewer: meetu
- Categories: Hindi Movies
- Genres: Comedy, Romance
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Comments (23)
Eagerly waiting to see the chemistry between Abhay Deol and Sonam Kapoor.
Has anyone seen the movie "Clueless", starring alicia silverstone? The promos of Aisha look a lot like Clueless.
So, is it more aesthetic to say, based on a classic novel? rather then saying a remake of Clueless...
I am clueless :-))
actually there are several versions of emma, including a movie called emma itself. The basic storyline is the same in every one of them, so I am not sure there is any reason to give clueless credit for the same..except perhaps if at all the modern adaptation?
Right, let's wait and watch. But the emphasis on designer wear and makeup makes the similarity to clueless a little bit more evident. I am not sure, if that was the case in Emma...
Sonam Kapoor calls Aisha a "chick flick" [http://bit.ly/9XYEl9] - that's sent alarm bells ringing in my head. I hope the Aisha team hasn't mutilated my beloved novel Emma!
Shilpa: Yes, you are right about the fashion part. The painting (some sketch that shows up in the promos is from emma, I dont remember if that was in clueless it probably was :) )
You are right Shilpa the first promo itself reminded me of clueless.. Clueless was based on Emma so I guess this one is gonna be based on Emma n Clueless.
so sounds like it is more clueless..at least from reviews..have to watch it..but now wondering if I should.
@Meetu: waiting for your review.
Meetu... hope things are good at your end. tc.
Missed your reviews, meetu. Can you tell me where can I find the time at which this review (or any review on wogma, for that matter) was posted?
I'm wondering if I should cry out for the missing 'Notepad' on other's behalf b'coz I, for one, have never cared for it.
This was a good movie. Yes, no great story, but it followed the book. The characters were great, and so were the dialogs. A lot better than crap like I Hate Luv Storys, APKGK, and Love Aaj Kal.
@lost in confusion hmmm...i intentionally kept the date stamp away. Though it was of hardly any value after the first couple days. Will look into plugging it in somewhere.
Love love love the movie.....
@joy [comment deleted due to personal attack on another commentor]
@joy:
'It followed the book'
The book on Wannabe Crap film making? or the Book on 'Looking Down on non-urban India'?
Because it certainly didn't follow 'The Book' Emma unless it was the book on it's Hollywood adaptation 'Clueless'
It's very like CLUELESS, Shilpa - though to its credit, it lets the characters grow a bit more by having some of her friends challenge her "meddling in the affairs of people less 'cool' than" her.
On the other hand, I'm not entirely sure I find Sonam Kapoor's Aisha as appealing as I did Alicia Silverstone Cher - maybe because Aisha seems even more self-absorbed than Cher did, who at least seemed to both love and care for her father and seemed less casually heartless (though maybe this is a cultural difference?). I found I liked the other characters more here - Pinky and Randhir in particular felt like sharply-observed, if not unexpected, characters revolving around Aisha's orbit.
I know this board isn't supposed to care about what goes on outside the movie itself - but even before I knew Sonam Kapoor is the daughter of International Movie Star and Producer Anil Kapoor, I'd wondered if this wasn't some kind of vanity project. It had a lot of changes of clothes and the latest toys circa last year, and while Aisha had a character arc it...well, felt like something an actor would come up with as "deep" rather than something that a good writer would devise. Thing is, it isn't a bad movie, and Regency Romance and Bollywood are a very good fit - but it feels like it should have been much better than it was.
@TimELiebe good point about an actor's concept of "deep" vs. a writer's concept. Didn't think of it that way.
meetu - I'm a former (unsuccessful) actor turned (bit more successful) writer. I tend to think like that - to the disgust of my actor friends! ;)
@TimELiebe aah! i see!! Anything I might have seen?
I had been warned about the film before I hit the theatre! "Pathetic," "drag," "awful" was what I'd heard. I was still curious to see just how pathetic it could get ;) Despite all my fangirl-ism for Sonam K, louv for Abhay D and huge expectations from the film, it did turn out 'p.' A shallow storyline with cardboard characters (save a few), Aisha will only be remembered until your next movie on the theater. The film, all swank and ritzy, is high up on the visual quotient, but that is all there is to it!
http://eatpraylovemovies.blogspot.com/2010/08/visual-delight-and-thats-it.html
@shilpa & @ TomEL.
Ya it's definitely like clueless. I watched Aisha today n I could tell it's so similar from the start. Like the tweed skirt & coat, fighting over remote n much more. Emma was written during 1815 or sth & author definitely didn't mention remote thingy there. Anyways, clueless is an awesome movie n the name just suits perfectly. well atleast, we've a new movie in India with nice western clothes even though that same movie existed more than a decade earlier.
meetu - as an actor, nothing you'd recognize me in. I was what Bollywood calls a "Junior Artist" - mostly extra work, voiceover, and one- or two-line parts. I was in FT. APACHE, THE BRONX, IN GOD WE TRUST, OFF BEAT, ATTACK OF THE KILLER TOMATOES, a lot of radio drama for the United States' National Public Radio, and did the opening voiceover in the cult hit SHOCK! SHOCK! SHOCK!
I wonder - have you ever read any Georgette Heyer? She was a British Regency Romance writer of the early-mid Twentieth Century, who has written a number of books that I think Bollywood could do an excellent job adapting. If you haven't, may I suggest you try reading her THE GRAND SOPHY, VENETIA, ARABELLA, FREDERICA and FALSE COLORS - and see if you don't agree they'd do very well....
@TimELiebe Will certainly give it a shot! Though romantic stories are not really my thing :D
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