DIRECTOR: Kunal Deshmukh
If you are going to watch this film with an expectation to see some steamy kissing scenes (As this is an Imran Hashmi starrer film) you might be disappointed. But if you just want to watch a feel good film on the weekend this might turn out to be a right choice.
Premise- The film is a love story with the backdrop of 26th July, 2005’s deluge in Mumbai.
Theme- Sometimes disastrous situations give people a chance to rethink what matters the most to them.
Plot- The film is the love story of Akshay (Imran Hashmi) and Sanjana (Soha Ali Khan). In the very beginning of the film they meet in a flight to Mumbai after six years since they broke up. But their reaction to each other tells that they have a significant history. In the film they recall how they were as a couple. After reaching to Mumbai they say farewell to each other and part their ways. But when they would be stuck in the deluge they would understand that they matter a world to each other. In a struggle to survive they come together one more time.
Protagonist:
Akshay- Akshay is an artist. He studies Arts in Cape Town, South Africa. He also works part-time as a delivery boy. He meets Sanjana by accident and gets infatuated with her. But very soon this infatuation blooms into a love relationship and they decide to live together.
Akshay is a talented artist but at the same time he is very open about his opinions. He is quite blunt and speaks his mind without much of a consideration. So in spite of the fact that he is the best artist of his college from his batch he cannot make a successful career as a painter. Meanwhile Sanjana supports him financially as well as emotionally. She stands by him in his thick and thin and doesn’t let her faith in him waver. But after a point it becomes difficult for her to understand Akshay because-
If you are going to watch this film with an expectation to see some steamy kissing scenes (As this is an Imran Hashmi starrer film) you might be disappointed. But if you just want to watch a feel good film on the weekend this might turn out to be a right choice.
Premise- The film is a love story with the backdrop of 26th July, 2005’s deluge in Mumbai.
Theme- Sometimes disastrous situations give people a chance to rethink what matters the most to them.
Plot- The film is the love story of Akshay (Imran Hashmi) and Sanjana (Soha Ali Khan). In the very beginning of the film they meet in a flight to Mumbai after six years since they broke up. But their reaction to each other tells that they have a significant history. In the film they recall how they were as a couple. After reaching to Mumbai they say farewell to each other and part their ways. But when they would be stuck in the deluge they would understand that they matter a world to each other. In a struggle to survive they come together one more time.
Protagonist:
Akshay- Akshay is an artist. He studies Arts in Cape Town, South Africa. He also works part-time as a delivery boy. He meets Sanjana by accident and gets infatuated with her. But very soon this infatuation blooms into a love relationship and they decide to live together.
Akshay is a talented artist but at the same time he is very open about his opinions. He is quite blunt and speaks his mind without much of a consideration. So in spite of the fact that he is the best artist of his college from his batch he cannot make a successful career as a painter. Meanwhile Sanjana supports him financially as well as emotionally. She stands by him in his thick and thin and doesn’t let her faith in him waver. But after a point it becomes difficult for her to understand Akshay because-
- He keeps most of his things to himself.
- He has a difficult artistic temperament; there are times when he thinks very selfishly.
In spite of these difficulties Sanjana keeps up with him but when he decides to take a drastic career decision which needs them to relocate to Australia; she puts her feet down and asks him to rethink his priorities. As for her she always gave this relation her first priority, so she gives him 2 choices-
Either he marries her and they both move to Sydney or she will not go with him if he takes this offer. Akshay decides his career over Sanjana and they break up on a soar note.
Sanjana- Sanjana is the only daughter of a multi millionaire but in spite of the position of her father she is a strong headed individual. She cares for environmental causes. She is an upright and extremely responsible person.
When she starts to live with Akshay, she takes his responsibility and gives him full support so he can work as an artist. It’s only much later when she feels that Akshay’s lack of financial independence is ruining their relationship that she suggests Akshay to take up a job. But Akshay takes it negatively and feels that Sanjana is suffocating him with her control freak nature. They break up because for Akshay his career advancement is more important that the relationship. Not only that, he is also not ready to take the responsibility of marriage.
Antagonist- It’s a nicely played love story in which the characteristics of protagonists play the role of antagonist. It’s not that their parents or any such reason hampers their relationship; rather their relationship breaks because they have not sorted out their priorities in life.
Sub-plots: In spite of the fact that the film is promoted as a “disaster film”, it’s not exactly a disaster film. It’s more of this love story which just uses 26th July episode as a backdrop.
Structure: The film starts with Akshay and Sanjana meeting in a flight to Mumbai and then it goes back and forth. They remember their love story in flashbacks whereas in their present lives they are stuck in the flood situation.
Dialogues: The dialogues of the film were not very well written, but at most of the places they sounded like normal colloquial language of our generation, which is a good point.
Critical Analysis:
[+] I went to see this film with zero expectation but fortunately it turned out quite an OK film. The love story looked credible. The characters were facing problems which sounded genuine. They had the kind of struggles in their lives which looked sincere. It didn’t feel as if they are living in some “gaga world” and they don’t have a life or the problems related to that life.
[+] The music of the film was very good like it generally is in all the Mahesh Bhatt films.
[+] Both Imran Hasmi and Soha Ali Khan were fine in their parts.
[-] The deluge scenes are not very well shot.
[-] A few sequences close to the climax were redundant. There is an entire sequence which is a frame by frame copy from Titanic which was quite unessential. It looked quite clear that the only purpose of that sequence was to stretch the second half.
[-] Akshay and Sanjana go to a building to avoid the water, but I don’t understand why they leave their friend behind who was there voluntarily to help this couple out!
[-] The death scene of Akshay’s friend also looked planted. It was a feeble attempt to show that there were deaths in the flood but unfortunately the scene didn’t leave any emotional impact which I guess was the very purpose of this scene. I still don’t understand why did Akshay not use his second hand to save his friend?
Technical Assessment:
Either he marries her and they both move to Sydney or she will not go with him if he takes this offer. Akshay decides his career over Sanjana and they break up on a soar note.
Sanjana- Sanjana is the only daughter of a multi millionaire but in spite of the position of her father she is a strong headed individual. She cares for environmental causes. She is an upright and extremely responsible person.
When she starts to live with Akshay, she takes his responsibility and gives him full support so he can work as an artist. It’s only much later when she feels that Akshay’s lack of financial independence is ruining their relationship that she suggests Akshay to take up a job. But Akshay takes it negatively and feels that Sanjana is suffocating him with her control freak nature. They break up because for Akshay his career advancement is more important that the relationship. Not only that, he is also not ready to take the responsibility of marriage.
Antagonist- It’s a nicely played love story in which the characteristics of protagonists play the role of antagonist. It’s not that their parents or any such reason hampers their relationship; rather their relationship breaks because they have not sorted out their priorities in life.
Sub-plots: In spite of the fact that the film is promoted as a “disaster film”, it’s not exactly a disaster film. It’s more of this love story which just uses 26th July episode as a backdrop.
Structure: The film starts with Akshay and Sanjana meeting in a flight to Mumbai and then it goes back and forth. They remember their love story in flashbacks whereas in their present lives they are stuck in the flood situation.
Dialogues: The dialogues of the film were not very well written, but at most of the places they sounded like normal colloquial language of our generation, which is a good point.
Critical Analysis:
[+] I went to see this film with zero expectation but fortunately it turned out quite an OK film. The love story looked credible. The characters were facing problems which sounded genuine. They had the kind of struggles in their lives which looked sincere. It didn’t feel as if they are living in some “gaga world” and they don’t have a life or the problems related to that life.
[+] The music of the film was very good like it generally is in all the Mahesh Bhatt films.
[+] Both Imran Hasmi and Soha Ali Khan were fine in their parts.
[-] The deluge scenes are not very well shot.
[-] A few sequences close to the climax were redundant. There is an entire sequence which is a frame by frame copy from Titanic which was quite unessential. It looked quite clear that the only purpose of that sequence was to stretch the second half.
[-] Akshay and Sanjana go to a building to avoid the water, but I don’t understand why they leave their friend behind who was there voluntarily to help this couple out!
[-] The death scene of Akshay’s friend also looked planted. It was a feeble attempt to show that there were deaths in the flood but unfortunately the scene didn’t leave any emotional impact which I guess was the very purpose of this scene. I still don’t understand why did Akshay not use his second hand to save his friend?
Technical Assessment:
- Kunal Deshmukh has definitely improved as a director from his last film Jannat to this film.
- The writer, Ankur Tiwari did a fairly good job.
- Art direction was good. Many of the flood sets were replicated nicely.
- Visual effects were fairly OK by Indian film standards.
- Cinematography by Prakash Kutti was average.
- Editing by Ajay Sharma was tight.
Overall it’s a nice one watch film.
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