I know I've been so damn lazy and not regular with my blog posts. I doubt anyone is reading it anymore. LOL. Anyway I am back with my post and this one is special cos It's a Hindi movie that I am reviewing and also It stars my hottie and favourite Shahid Kapoor and the film released on my birthday this year! So here we go:
Mausam starts on a very fresh and happy note as Harinder Singh aka Harry (Shahid Kapoor) and his group of friends are having fun and doing all the things that young boys in Punjab in 1992 did! After a few fun filled and humorous scenes with Harry and the gang, in walks Aayat(Sonam Kapoor) a vulnerably shy and pretty Muslim girl who has fled Kashmir and has come to Mallukot, Punjab, to live with her aunt. The first half an hour or almost forty-five minutes of the film has a very crisp feel to it and you find yourself smiling and feeling the lead characters of the film.
However the movie shifts time and place and then Harry and Aayat are in Scotland after some seven years. They meet, they have their moments and the unsaid words are said and love is finally declared. However before Harry can make it official with Aayat's family, he is called back to India to report for duty. War breaks on the border and Harry doesn't have the time to explain anything so he rushes back. Aayat is left, feeling rejected and time doesn't wait for the lovers.
The movie begins to drag from here and the problem with the film is that, the year is supposed to be 1999 but the entire look feels like post 2000! One major flaw of the film. Anyway, other than that, Harry looks delicious and to-die-for as Squadron Leader and that might keep the women going. The separation is not enough for the lovers. In-between, they try to meet each other or at least pass messages to each other but they seem to be out of luck. Nothing works out for them so they wait, as life passes them by.
It's not like Mausam is a bad film. It just feels like Pankaj Kapur had such brilliant ideas and he tried to incorporate the real life events into a romance story and that would have worked, if he hadn't tried to make it so complex. Shahid Kapoor as Harwinder Singh is so believable and awesome but you do find him taking his character very seriously. Sonam Kapoor is as pretty as a doll and her expressions have actually improved from Aisha but other than adding beauty to the look of the film, she does nothing to make the film some sort of art. It is Shahid Kapoor who does everything in his power to push the film to an aesthetic level and like i said before, at some point, he over does it.
The film runs for three hours and If you are not an avid Shahid Kapoor fan, you may even want to walk out of the theater. The movie has a typical Bollywood ending but not before the lovers find themselves in a compound situation and they still have to unravel and tackle some obstacles before they can be together.
I was disappointed by the movie and by that, I mean the script of the movie but I enjoyed watched Shahid Kapoor in half-sweaters, smiling, stalking, change to a serious man in uniform and aviators. He was the sole reason for me to watch this film. If you like him as much as I do then you have to watch it. else, you can wait until the cable airs it on some channel and save your penny!
Mausam starts on a very fresh and happy note as Harinder Singh aka Harry (Shahid Kapoor) and his group of friends are having fun and doing all the things that young boys in Punjab in 1992 did! After a few fun filled and humorous scenes with Harry and the gang, in walks Aayat(Sonam Kapoor) a vulnerably shy and pretty Muslim girl who has fled Kashmir and has come to Mallukot, Punjab, to live with her aunt. The first half an hour or almost forty-five minutes of the film has a very crisp feel to it and you find yourself smiling and feeling the lead characters of the film.
However the movie shifts time and place and then Harry and Aayat are in Scotland after some seven years. They meet, they have their moments and the unsaid words are said and love is finally declared. However before Harry can make it official with Aayat's family, he is called back to India to report for duty. War breaks on the border and Harry doesn't have the time to explain anything so he rushes back. Aayat is left, feeling rejected and time doesn't wait for the lovers.
The movie begins to drag from here and the problem with the film is that, the year is supposed to be 1999 but the entire look feels like post 2000! One major flaw of the film. Anyway, other than that, Harry looks delicious and to-die-for as Squadron Leader and that might keep the women going. The separation is not enough for the lovers. In-between, they try to meet each other or at least pass messages to each other but they seem to be out of luck. Nothing works out for them so they wait, as life passes them by.
It's not like Mausam is a bad film. It just feels like Pankaj Kapur had such brilliant ideas and he tried to incorporate the real life events into a romance story and that would have worked, if he hadn't tried to make it so complex. Shahid Kapoor as Harwinder Singh is so believable and awesome but you do find him taking his character very seriously. Sonam Kapoor is as pretty as a doll and her expressions have actually improved from Aisha but other than adding beauty to the look of the film, she does nothing to make the film some sort of art. It is Shahid Kapoor who does everything in his power to push the film to an aesthetic level and like i said before, at some point, he over does it.
The film runs for three hours and If you are not an avid Shahid Kapoor fan, you may even want to walk out of the theater. The movie has a typical Bollywood ending but not before the lovers find themselves in a compound situation and they still have to unravel and tackle some obstacles before they can be together.
I was disappointed by the movie and by that, I mean the script of the movie but I enjoyed watched Shahid Kapoor in half-sweaters, smiling, stalking, change to a serious man in uniform and aviators. He was the sole reason for me to watch this film. If you like him as much as I do then you have to watch it. else, you can wait until the cable airs it on some channel and save your penny!
