In a time when watching 1.5 hours long movie can in itself be a pain, imagine a torture that extends to 3 hours. Well Mausam is gonna subject you to such kinda torture. Painful, slow torture leading to a traumatized state of mind, a state which has made me hate words linked to Mausam like Awesome Mausam, suhana mausam or anything related to movies. I m so traumatized I m taking a sabbatical from movies. If i were to rewrite 3 mistakes of my life, Mausam would easily defeat the others in contention.
Where did it go wrong?? in just about everything, from the script, acting, to an amazing climax (which deserves a "Razzie" I shall come to it in the end) everything was screwed. Mausam is a series of unfortunate events that happens to our protagonists Shahid aka Harry and Sonam aka Ayaat. Now this series involves all the sad events that happened in India for the past 2 decades, right from Kashmiri Pandits exodus to Ayodhya, to Mumbai blasts, Kargil, ending up in riots stage in Ayodhya. Not to forget the script goes international and includes 9/11 affecting the lives of our protagonists as well; So you see all sad events are related to these unfortunate two. This movie can be shown to kids in History classes as a reference to the unfortunate events that happened in India. The script is really loose and presents you an irritating rollercoaster ride in terms of highs and lows. I mean you may ve just encountered a nicey nicey happy scene, then suddenly out of nowhere tragedy strikes and we are staring at horror stricken faces or sad ones and then just like that the happy happy jolly good scenes return. Secondly, the entire film is so slow that you can watch first 30 mins (the only watchable part) return back "after the climax" and you will find nothing has changed. Why m I stressing on the awesome climax? Because in the climax when our protagonists end up in a abandoned mela after being set ablaze by rioters, the viewers are subjected to 3 main characters and some amazing kickassery after that. the characters being: Our hero who has a paralyzed arm due to an air crash, a kid who is stranded on a Ferris wheel suspended mid way with his dead mother (didnt understand how the mother died) and a horse. To make things more complicated our paralyzed hero saves the horse (not to ride it but just to save it) and also the kid with his miraculously healed arm (clap. clap. clap) so the audience is shown the caring nature of our hero for animals and human alike which was so essential you see.
In terms of acting only Shahid does ok along with Aditi Sharma (she s goood). Sonam is really really bad when it comes to acting. She can best be a model, I dont understand whats up with the fake laughter. All she does is laugh hysterically in happy scenes or scream in sad ones.
Overall Mausam is a sad and a total devastating watch. dont watch it even if somebody pays for it.
Where did it go wrong?? in just about everything, from the script, acting, to an amazing climax (which deserves a "Razzie" I shall come to it in the end) everything was screwed. Mausam is a series of unfortunate events that happens to our protagonists Shahid aka Harry and Sonam aka Ayaat. Now this series involves all the sad events that happened in India for the past 2 decades, right from Kashmiri Pandits exodus to Ayodhya, to Mumbai blasts, Kargil, ending up in riots stage in Ayodhya. Not to forget the script goes international and includes 9/11 affecting the lives of our protagonists as well; So you see all sad events are related to these unfortunate two. This movie can be shown to kids in History classes as a reference to the unfortunate events that happened in India. The script is really loose and presents you an irritating rollercoaster ride in terms of highs and lows. I mean you may ve just encountered a nicey nicey happy scene, then suddenly out of nowhere tragedy strikes and we are staring at horror stricken faces or sad ones and then just like that the happy happy jolly good scenes return. Secondly, the entire film is so slow that you can watch first 30 mins (the only watchable part) return back "after the climax" and you will find nothing has changed. Why m I stressing on the awesome climax? Because in the climax when our protagonists end up in a abandoned mela after being set ablaze by rioters, the viewers are subjected to 3 main characters and some amazing kickassery after that. the characters being: Our hero who has a paralyzed arm due to an air crash, a kid who is stranded on a Ferris wheel suspended mid way with his dead mother (didnt understand how the mother died) and a horse. To make things more complicated our paralyzed hero saves the horse (not to ride it but just to save it) and also the kid with his miraculously healed arm (clap. clap. clap) so the audience is shown the caring nature of our hero for animals and human alike which was so essential you see.
In terms of acting only Shahid does ok along with Aditi Sharma (she s goood). Sonam is really really bad when it comes to acting. She can best be a model, I dont understand whats up with the fake laughter. All she does is laugh hysterically in happy scenes or scream in sad ones.
Overall Mausam is a sad and a total devastating watch. dont watch it even if somebody pays for it.
6 comments:
So the director is trying to say .. that these sad events (riots, 9/11) etc happened because of the protagonists? I mean they are the common connection ;)
thnk god dey din stretch it to 26/11...it was jst too mch to swallow
thanks for the review.. you saved me from watching it this week..Jojo keep watching more movies and help us save time and money in these type of bakwaas movies.. anyways how is jonney english???
I would suggest a total sanyaas from movies. Its total waste of time and energy. I am really thankful to my friend ,who has gone through the trauma to save us. Thanks Thanku.. u saved us...
Must say very nicely written about n described the movie... & thanks for saving us from this torture.... :)
He he... How could you fall for a hindi film when you have burnt your fingers so many times in the past..?? Next time just look at the scars before booking the tickets..!!!