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Saawariya (2007)
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Reviews Counted:18
Fresh:7
Rotten:11
Average Rating:5/10
Rated: PG [See Full Rating] for thematic elements, brief nudity, some language and incidental smoking.
Runtime: 2 hrs 22 mins
Genre: Foreign Films
Theatrical Release:Nov 9, 2007 Limited
Box Office: $885,574
Synopsis: Bollywood and Hollywood entwine for this mix of romance, singing, comedy, dancing, and melodrama, directed by Sanjay Leela Bhansali (DEVDAS) and produced in tandem with Sony/Columbia. The achingly... Bollywood and Hollywood entwine for this mix of romance, singing, comedy, dancing, and melodrama, directed by Sanjay Leela Bhansali (DEVDAS) and produced in tandem with Sony/Columbia. The achingly beautiful Rani Mukherjee narrates and appears as Gulab, a streetcorner princess haunting the red light district in an expressionistic melange of Venice, Vegas, and Amsterdam. The irrepressibly callow musician Raj (Ranbir Kapoor) catches her eye, but Raj thinks he's in love with Sakina (Sonam Kapoor) who prefers to pine away for her absent lover, Imaan (Salman Kahn). All this longing (it's based on Dostoyevsky's WHITE NIGHTS) is stunningly captured through bizarre and elaborate backdrops, winding staircases, torrents of rain, and a color scheme heavy on the blues. Fans of Baz Luhrman's MOULIN ROUGE will want to live inside this film: there may not a whole lot of weight to all the tomfoolery, but the pain of youthful romantic idealism is part of the message. The music is always the thing with Bollywood films and SAAWARIYA packs in its share of rousing numbers. Western viewers entering the realm of Bollywood for the first time will find SAAWARIYA ("beloved" in Hindi) to be a crossover film that's ready to welcome them with open arms into a jubilant world of high-spirited song and dance, over-the-top goofiness, anguished melodrama, gyrating hips (with very sexy exposed belly buttons), and PG-rated romance. [More]
Starring: Ranbir Kapoor, Sonam Kapoor, Salman Khan, Rani Mukherjee
Starring: Ranbir Kapoor, Sonam Kapoor, Salman Khan, Rani Mukherjee
Director: Sanjay Leela Bhansali
Director: Sanjay Leela Bhansali
Screenwriter: Prakash Kapadia, Sanjay Leela Bhansali
Producer: Sanjay Leela Bhansali
Composer: Monty
Studio: Sony Pictures Entertainment
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Reviews for Saawariya
Ranbir Raj is a charming presence with moves that suggest a cross between Justin Timberlake and Gene Kelly, but the screen really comes to life when it's full of dancers.
With its lavish production design, extravagant sets, poetic musical numbers and photogenic stars, Saawariya is ravishing to look at, but disappointing overall
Entertaining ... Not all that different from America's love affair with MTV, American idol, and prime time TV offerings
Disappointingly, neither India's most artistic director nor his new discoveries can prevent this song-packed extravaganza from being a beautifully crafted bore.
Saawariya entices, fitfully springs to life but finally outstays its welcome by a good half-hour.
May not be the artistic milestone many have been hoping for, but as the first product of Bollywood's marriage with Hollywood, there should be pride from all corners for producing a solidly crafted entertainment.
The songs are undistinguished, and while newcomers Sonam Kapoor and Ranbir Kapoor (who aren't related) both have impeccable Bollywood pedigrees, her performance is wildly uneven -- and his strenuously madcap antics are grating rather than endearing.
How can it be that a movie as beautiful to look at as Saawariya is so...boring?
Of all the film's rococo pleasures—the lavish dance numbers, the dramatic rainstorms, and even the gold dust that puffs out when Sakina beats her rugs -- Mukherjee's richly textured diva is the most mesmerizing...
Saawariya doesn't collapse but does wobble for much of its nearly 150-minute running time
A breezy and passably entertaining major Indian musical, the first to be released by a major Hollywood studio.
Saawariya is 2 hours 11 minutes of wide-screen close-ups, fanciful sets, colorful costumes, bellybuttons, almost-kisses and 10 pumped-up, achingly sweet songs.
For audiences unaccustomed to the format, the film runs too long -- though it is short by Bollywood standards -- and is repetitive, sentimental and cliched.
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