Comments on: Caught In the Swirl Of Stardust!

By: nrsl

nrsl — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 06:37:24 +0000

@ ctone
Would try to check out Moulin Rougue.. U have been such great PR for it!
@ Sai
This post is not about that movie, and knowing you, I think you wont like that movie either. Yes, indeed, you are one of those fortunate few.. God bless you and Ms.M.

By: sai

sai — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 06:17:21 +0000

I’ve not watched the movie , but after a lot of dreams I woke up to find My soul mate, she is No angel or princess ….she is the perfect companion.

By: ctone

ctone — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 18:51:26 +0000

if u want a visual poetry watch moulin rougue.. i think saawariya is inspired by moulin..

By: nrsl

nrsl — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 09:18:06 +0000

@ Jeevan..
I liked it when you said, “While watching Saawariya I was waiting for the story to start till the end”. Yet, wow! what visuals! I felt as if I am sitting in the midst of visual poetry recitation..

By: Jeevan

Jeevan — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 12:45:51 +0000

I had watched this movie and ‘Om Shanti Om’ back-to-back in Forum mall last year. It was just before heading off to a 4 month Business trip to US. I wanted to watch these two on a Large screen.

While watching Saawariya I was waiting for the story to start till the end

When Salman finally arrives at the end of the movie, it reminded me of his other movie Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam (HDDCS) where he was the loser. I thought probably Bhansali has got Salman’s wish fulfilled by uniting him with the heroine

As per the sets, it was obvious in most of the scenes that these walls were all made of cloths. Bhansali had duped all the audience in HDDCS too. Remember the Italy trip, the bridge where Ajay Devgan and Aishwarya take their last photo in Italy, it was actually shot in Hungary and made the audence believe that he is showing us Italy. While watching it I was trying to identify that bridge with the ones I had seen during my business trips to Italy

I always take the movies with a pinch of salt. They are made to be larger than life and it is only for entertainment

When I watched Om Shanti Om immediately after this movie, I had had the most memorable experience of watching a great entertaining movie of all time. Sometimes I had felt that I was in the sets of Karz and I am part the team creating history

By: nrsl

nrsl — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 05:46:24 +0000

@ Sathish
Is that a muse of agreement?
@ Joyeeta

By: joyeetamajumdar

joyeetamajumdar — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 21:30:01 +0000

True again…’delusion’ it is!

By: Sathish

Sathish — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 12:08:34 +0000

mmm….

By: nrsl

nrsl — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 10:27:40 +0000

@ prajwalpai
Agreed! I still remember how much I pined for a little ray of sunshine or a little hope of reality before I resigned myself to the dream world of Bhansali. It unveiled as a multidimensional wonderland, yet it lacked the warm glow of romance that a love story emanates..

By: prajwalpai

prajwalpai — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 09:26:29 +0000

True, I agree. It was a visual extravaganza. I dont wanna say that movie is bad or anything, but I am telling that just visuals is not enough. Just a dreamy idea of the director is not enough to like the movie. I loved the promos of the movie, I liked the way each song is shot. But in the end it was a overdoze of imagination. As you rightly say the movie lacked the soul and It felt too artificial. When I read the plot of ‘White Nights’ , I visualised it with minimalism and I what I got was a over the top artificial movie.

By: nrsl

nrsl — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 05:06:01 +0000

@ Prajwalpai
I loved the Shrek series.. That apart, Saawariya for me is a beautiful visual poetry, sans heart.

@ Rambler
Would check out ‘She’ for sure.

@ Joyeetha
Thank you. I think the latter is delusion.

By: joyeetamajumdar

joyeetamajumdar — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 22:45:45 +0000

“Sometimes its so difficult to identify which group they belong to: people who are in love or people who are in love with the idea of being in love”

So true…the former kind is selfless and unconditional, while the latter suffer from an obsession…!

By: joyeetamajumdar

joyeetamajumdar — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 22:40:58 +0000

I am amazed at the scope of your imagination and vocabulary to match it!
Simply grrreat!! Yes, I agree…this review is better than the movie!

By: Rambler

Rambler — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 16:10:48 +0000

I think I am with you.. I am yet to make up my mind if I liked or not liked the movie.. I cannot day I didnt like..because there were many things which I liked in the movie

Regarding the soulmates and dreams of the perfect damsel..I remember of one of the post I wrote sometime back titled “She”

By: prajwalpai

prajwalpai — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 14:54:18 +0000

The only thing I liked bout Saawariya is this review . I had to look up my dictionary many times while reading your piece but it was worth it . But I totally understnad what you are trying to tell, I actually never saw Saawariya with this point of view. I have seen the specimen you are talking about.
The best movies to reflect on your ideas would be the Shrek series, All the 3 Shrek movies just break every stereotype of all the fairy tales that we have grown up with. A prince charming to be a villian, A bad fairy god mother, A ugly ogre to sweep off the princess, the princess who actually chooses herself to be a ogre rather than a human. I just love Shrek!!
Coming back to Saawaria , It seems like literally a dream of Bansali. A dream which doesnt makes sense and lacks soul.