Saawariya

Have you ever read Shakespeare’s poetry or felt as if you are a part of his brilliant ballet dramas while reading them? Have you ever heard Beetle’s, when they are at their supreme best with slow love songs? Have you ever glanced the minutest details of Michelangelo’s simplest painting? Have you ever dwelled in Leonardo da Vinci’s art? Have you read the fairest fairy tale ever? If you have missed even one among them, I suggest you go and watch “Saawariya”.

Hold on guys, this is not a review, its not about the praise or criticism of any movie so called “Saawariya”. This is more than that. This is poetry in verses. This is love following love.

Even after hearing so much of criticism about this movie, I really wanted to see it. So, on Sunday night I decided to see the movie, with clear mind, no pros and no cons.

When Lights, Camera and Action are said and camera starts rolling, searching for colors, it seems nothing is visible. It is pitch black. Then black rolls its beauty and in its womb rests shades of hazy blue, which comes into the canvas silently without hushing or rushing. Black and Blue are the colors. The world, the paradise, the hell everything is either black or its blue. So I came to know, whatever it maybe, heaven or hell, its all in same colors. This was the magic of the phenomenal sets that mesmerized my eyes.

If you have even missed watching the innocence that lies in a kid’s eye, don’t be sad. This will make you see the layers of innocence. The beauty of silence unleashes the beauty of fantasy and dreams. It is the best of innocence personification. The enigmatic serenity of love comes riding the horse far from seventh heaven, across seven seas and just after few moments I found I am in some dreamland, floating amidst stars and clouds.

I felt this is Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s best creation till date. The story of standing firm with your believes, truth, dreams, fantasy, unrequited love and friendship curtails the feeling of hatred for everyone in our hearts. People who appreciate and believe in their dreams should definitely watch this movie. People with artistic blend of mind will love this like nothing before. But, people who will look for so-called-practicality and who think dreams and fantasy is just a buzzword; please don’t corrupt the beauty of such a masterpiece by viewing it. 

If you ask me about the performances; be it Ranbir Raj or Sonam, or if you talk about Rani or Salman and Zohra sehgal, I will just say that they lived and took their every breathe in the characters they are and you will never feel that they are just playing their pieces. The most heart touching relationship was between Ranbir and Lilly-Pop. The sets, direction and cinematography have no flaw. The soulful music will leave you with unwoven dreams and will remind you of the most valuable moment, which is your first feeling of love. The very first time when you felt you are in love. We may hardly remember that moment as we have crossed miles after that and never treasured that single little thing. But, after seeing this movie, I can bet on the fact that you will gently unlace those preserved moments in the deepest zone of your heart.

The little moments that we often tend to leave behind and lock in the never-opening or must say always-shut closet of our heart and mind are so beautifully taken out from, opening the lock of those locked closets and kept gently in your palms. You can see those moments playing in your palms with those criss-cross lines, which we ourselves make and call “density”. The sensuous and not vulgar portrayal of male sexuality is another card in the packet, which may be analyzed as per perspectives. If I would have been the writer of the movie, I must have said, this is my best work.

The end that is not the end, but yet another beginning for someone and a benediction for the other will leave you with a lingering sadness. When you come out of the movie, you will have an itch in your heart and a sad smile on your lips. You will be thinking should I smile for the love that someone got, which was much awaited or should I shed a tear from my eye with a little smile on my parched lips for the love someone lost which was the only best thing that could ever happen?

I was thinking, if it was a fairy tale why didn’t the fairy come to make everything all right? Why someone was sad and someone happy? Then, I smiled; placing a gentle tap on my head saying everything was just all right. Love is like that. Emotions played their cards well and the prince and the princess rode the white horse which had a pink scarf on its neck far-far to another blue-black world which was another paradise and the real prince who was the prince of hearts is still there, watching the snow, holding rain drops and spreading smiles on those faces which really needed them. He is happy, for he has done his part of the love. He has mended those broken pieces that his life was seeking. He was the prince of hearts and he will always be. He was a singer who was in search of that someone and he would always be a singer who got that someone.

With many traces and layers of unlaced love the movie ends here, but will make you realize and fix the values of emotions, life, dreams and love in your heart. This was my most loved and treasured movie “Saawariya”