SAAWARIYA 2007
by
Sanjay Leela Bhansali
Saawariya is inspired by Dostoevsky's short story titled White Nights. The sets are exotic, the music is tolerable, it is one long snowy night, and the tramp of a hero always looks well fed and impeccably dressed. There are no bystanders, only six or seven characters in the film. The heroine seems malnourished and dry to the point of prudery. While Ranbir Kapoor impresses with his Raj Kapoor, Chaplin and Rocky turns, Sonam Kapoor comes across as dull. Salman is a good fit as a passerby! Rani Mukerji displays zero oomph while playing a prostitute. This is a kind of film in which everyone fails to emote. It is packaged well but has no juice. Zohra Sehgal has a very long role and gets on one's nerves. In a sense, the set seems the same one in which Black was shot. The film became a drag and had to be borne for the sake of tick mark. That about sums up Saawariya.
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