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Review - Vivah: Don't hold your head and shake it in despair, just leave the theatre
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That is, if you go there in the first place! Fans of Sooraj Barjatya - if that species is not extinct yet - might enjoy a few moments of his typical style. The rest of us didn't care in the first place.
The lead pair whispers as if the listener has the most delicate eardrums and the heroine heaves, with her head at a 45 degree angle, as if she is soon going to need asthma medication. It is acceptable if they did that for the first few times - throughout the movie though? All actors, in lead and supporting roles, try to make the best of what lines are given to them. The only actor that stands out is Seema Biswas, she suits the different character she is given.
You have the predictable dialogues that spoon-feed the audience with details of the most obvious, and leave out technical details lest they distract you from the story (if it can be called that). The predictable plot has the ‘world’s best’ human beings (especially the over-virtuous, obedient hero and the nauseatingly shy heroine) – except one. Then there is the predictable screenplay, where the only place a couple can meet is temples and the only clandestine rendezvous is on a rooftop. And surely, there is the predictable exhibition of expensive saris, salwar suits, and jewelry. Kudos to consistency!!!
But, hey, the music is unpredictable – it is outright BAD! The good thing about earlier Sooraj Barjatya movies was at least they had songs you could appreciate when you saw them and were at least hummable. Songs of Vivah just make you wish the screeching stopped.
Wake up, Mr. Barjatya, it is no more the 80’s. We are getting used to much better cinema and you have much better equipment to provide us with it. So, do not take us for granted and serve us sub-standard products!
- meetu, a part of the audience
Vivah - Movie Details
- Director: Sooraj Barjatya
- Lead Cast: Shahid Kapoor, Amrita Rao
- Supporting Cast: Anupam Kher, Alok Nath, Seema Biswas, Amrita Prakash
- Story: Sooraj Barjatya
- Dialogues: Aash Karan Atal
- Reviewer: meetu
- Categories: Hindi Movies
- Genres: Romance, Melodrama, Family
Comments (5)
It was one of the best movie, i have seen. I did read an similar comment as urs in rediff, but when i checked on the comments, all were replying that it was good. really it was an excellent & clean movie. May b if heroines come in (only) handkerchief - u would posted a good comment, now enough of glamour .. glamour, lets talk of pure, perfect movie. really an hit movie, bcoz it was housefull, and at the same multiplex, tickets for dhoom2 were avaialable. an excellent movie to watch. please do not pass wrong comments
posted 3 years, 4 months agoThere is something more than glamour
Thanks for reading this,
Naresh
Hey naresh,
posted 3 years, 4 months agoIts great that you liked the movie. But, such movies don't work for me.
But, its pretty unfair to say "May b if heroines come in (only) handkerchief - u would posted a good comment".
I just wanted to clarify, I certainly did not dislike the movie because the women were fully-clad. Far from it.
It was supposed to be a romantic movie, and I did not find any of the situations romantic. Neither was there any attempt to be novel.
Thanks for stopping by.
He he... nice review... Actually, rather than nauseating, I found this movie extremely comical.. esp those typical filmi dialogs... one of the funniest is when Shahid steps into his dad's office, everyone looks at him wierdly... and then, his dad says, 'beta tumhare liye ek rishta aaya hai' with great enthu... not just that, most mundane stuff is stylized to border comedy... Do you do this for a living or this ur passion?
posted 1 year, 11 months ago:) Vikas! This is my passion which I'm hoping to monetize better.
posted 1 year, 11 months agoi don't know who has written this bakwas review of such a beautiful movie..bt a thing i would love 2 tell this reviewer that he or she must leave 2 speculate abt movies as he or she doesn't have any sense ..or may b that he or she doesn't know much abt india..i would tell him or her 2 go to mathura,jhansi, bhopal, raipur ,patna ,ujjain 2 see the cultural existense as the person who has written this has lack of knowledge abt our culture...anyway this movie is awesme..i think even yash chopra can not make such vivah''..i think sooraj ji has his own cinematic sensibility..which is adorable...sooraj ji hats off to you..kindly making such type of beautiful movie...v r proud of you 4 making vivah n a thig sooraj ji don't think abt this type of reviewer just think abt our type of viwer...
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