Nishabd: No reasons for being speechless.
Coma to Heart-Attack scale: High Blood Pressure (8/10)
It is not as if the story is original. Initial comparisons with Lolita and once the movie was released with American Beauty ensured that this movie got hammered. To break the mold Ram Gopal Verma would have had to lie.
I give it such high points is because I appreciate honesty. What has been shown could actually happen with Indian males. When Jiah Khan calls Amitabh a hypocrite she is not far wrong. The societal pressure and the 'family friend' factor is true with Indian relationships which makes the Indian male a far less adventurous and reckless than his western counterpart (Kevin Spacey changes his lifestyle completely). In the end Amitabh (playing the typical Indian male) prefers to live on in a fantasy world rather than take any steps to improve his situation.
That is perhaps one of the main reasons, while all Indian families do not enjoy a happily married life, the divorce rate is not as high as in the western world.
People do continue to live unhappy lives than resisting societal pressure to split. Especially people who have been married for a long time.
The scenery is excellent and the background music is good too!
The girls are cute!
While most people are going ga-ga over Jiah Khan I liked Shradha Arya (playing Amitabh's daughter) better. Shradha looks cute when she cries and her eyes are deadly. She was the runner up of the Best Cinestar Ki Khoj competition.
There are quite a few negatives in the story. It just seems like a weeks worth of episodes for a soap opera. A very short story is stretched to fit two hours.
Revathi plays the standard role of the 'suffering in silence' housewife. There are no twists to the story. No excitement to grab the attention of the audience.
The CAMERA! Why does it go flying all over the place ALL the time?
OK the SCENERY is BEAUTIFUL but do we need to see N number of different views of Amitabh's 'estate' through the 'magical flying camera'.
Oh and why the use of fish-eye and wide-angle lenses? We really don't need to see the interiors of the house in wide-angle!
I have one serious issue with the whole concept of Jiah being from a split home and having spent time in Australia?
Does the director want to show that Indian girls are not capable of falling in love with older men?
Or does one need to have family issues / influence of foreign culture to do so?
The tagline is 'some love stories are never meant to be understood'
But this one is so simple to understand that its not even worth going into the details.
The tagline should have been 'there is nothing to understand in this love story'
