Oh! Saawariya!!

Mr. Raja Sen’s critique of Saawariya is extremely well written and my only hope was that the scriptwriter of the film would have taken the pains to think through the lines as carefully as Mr. Sen has thought through this critique.

I enjoyed Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam a lot even with its flaws. But since then Mr. Bhansali has got this absurd notion that Indian audiences think from their heart and feel from their ears. Why otherwise would he have loud characters with overflowing emotional quotients and a hyper-imaginative backdrop to all subsequent movies? He's better suited to paint abstract art with his vivid imagination and give Mr. M. F. Hussein’s a run for his money. If escapist cinema is his excuse then please at least show me the backdrop of Switzerland in your gazillion songs so we so-called poor Indians can visit these countries for free and importantly without the hassle of long visa lines. If Black had a black and white backdrop and Saawariya a blue hue I shudder to think what color combinations are next. If you Mr.Bhansali can focus on the various shades of characters and not just on the cinematic hues it would better serve to narrate a story which I thought was the primary purpose of cinema. I better stop now before my stereotypical over emotional Indian state of mind gets the better of me!