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Vivah
- Family Entertainer |
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MUSIC |
PREVIEW |
MUSIC REVIEW |
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The Great Indian
Wedding is back. And it’s packaged in wholesome courses. Lots of
good people, lots of traditional bonding, elaborate ceremonies,
feel-good romance, scenic Indian interiors and how can a wedding be
complete without a fair amount of teary eyes. Sooraj Barjatya’s
‘Vivah’ is an ideal recipe for diabetes with a sweet-tooth script
and handle-with-soft-gloves treatment meted out to this journey from
engagement to marriage. But the belief, sincerity and conviction
that he displays in Indian traditions, and the nascent charm of
lead-pair of Shahid Kapoor-Amrita Rao melts your heart and you end
up humming Ravindra Jain’s melody….Mujhe Haq Hai…With a smile.
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The maker of
super hit family entertainers makes amends for the outlandish
boldness of his last outing ‘Main Prem Ki Diwani Hoon’. For ‘Vivah’
transports you back to the jubilee days of ‘Hum Aapke Hain Kaun’.
Or, in other words, Sooraj is back to his roots. And he is in
control. Whether it will attain the same kind of success remains to
be seen but this much is for sure that with the marriage season
about to begin coupled with a touching storyline, there’s every
possibility of ‘Vivah’ hitting the bull’s eye at the Box Office. |
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Lemme begin with a few
vignettes from the film. Firstly, there’s no point in searching for
realism out here. You have to look at it from the context that the
film is set in (You don’t have an option anyways dude) where Ram
Rajya prevails. Prem (Shahid Kapoor) respects his father, rich
businessman Harishchandra (Anupam Kher) while Poonam (Amrita Rao) is
the prized possession of her chachaji Krishnakanth (Alok Nath)
coming from an humble background. He is a city bred boy from Delhi
while she is a homely girl from Madhupur near Mathura. Their love
germinates after their engagement at her simple North Indian house.
Poonam cares for him becoming his inspiration to become someone on
his own. Prem reciprocates her love in a touching moment in the
later part of the film and it’s worth a gulp in your throat and
handkerchief-friendly-moist-eyes.
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If you are tired of
superficiality of Ekta Kapoor’s festival dance dramas on idiot box
then the elaborate ornamentations, lavish preparation for wedding,
the jalebis of North India, spicy eatables and designer costumes of
‘Vivah’ will be a welcome change. But there’s something more in this
family drama that will be difficult for Balaji brand to emulate.
There’s a lot of purity and compassion in the relationship shared by
Prem and Poonam. It’s not a put-on. The comfort level shared by the
two actors is fantastic and it reflects in their tantalizing
chemistry on screen. |
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Shahid Kapoor as new
age Prem is a welcome departure from Salman Khan, Hrithik Roshan and
Abhishek Bachchan’s brand of Prem. He is subtle, simple,
willing-to-learn and deft in handling emotional situations with a
competent ease. The maturity displayed by him in the climax scene
reflects the kind of person he is. It can very well be a turning
point in his career. But the one who is going to benefit the most
from ‘Vivah’ is the girl-next-door Amrita Rao who seems perfect to
play Poonam. She looks gorgeously simple, pious, humble, dedicated
and down to earth. She too handles the emotional content of her
character with well-manicured-dexterity. Sooraj Barjatya brings out
the best from Alok Nath for he performs brilliantly in all his
films. Anupam Kher doesn’t have any extraordinary scenes to portray
while Seema Biswas as the jealous, smirking chaachi ji internalizes
her complexes well |
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Ravindra Jain’s music
sounded ordinary while listening to it on the audio cd but almost
all the songs are situation based and they successfully take the
story forward in a musical format. Only one song ‘Mujhe Haq Hai’ is
a lip sync number while all the others play in the background. ‘Do
Anjaane Ajnabi’ and ‘O Jiji’ go very well with the flow of the film.
Usage of Hindi language (especially by Sameer Soni who plays
Shahid’s elder brother) is a pleasant delight (although that ‘Jal’
for water gets a bit too much at times). |
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Director Sooraj
Barjatya has regained his lost touch. He is definitely relevant in
this era of remakes and glitzy fare. He has got all the right
ingredients for the family audience (especially the ladies of the
house) to come and watch it in hordes. Yes, it moves at snail’s pace
at most times but then even ‘Hum Aapke Hain Kaun’ was a long
marriage video which was widely appreciated by masses. Somehow we
Indians love to revisit our culture again and again. And ‘Vivah’
offers that to a great extent. If you are a sucker for romantic
ideals about love, marriage, joint families, good values and lots of
music, then ‘Vivah’ is for you. You shall emerge nice and happy out
of the theatre. But please leave notions like realism, plausibility,
practicality etc. outside and just have a good time. Can anyone book
tickets for me to Somsarovar (Oops….it was Nainital)? |
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