Guess this would be the last post
for this year. And how much ever I try; I will not be able to infuse the
tiniest bit of positivity in this post.
Last evening my husband I had
gone to see the much raved movie – ‘Bajirao Mastani’. After having seen the
trailer on bookmyshow website, it looked like a super war epic movie and a
great way to end the year. My husband also had the expectations that it would
be similar to Bahubali (although I thought it was a little farfetched!)
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I am not sure where to begin!
Basically it was a Sanjay Leela Bansali movie and we should have gone with just
that in mind. Expecting him to do any
different from his previous movies would leave you feeling massively disappointed
like us! (Although I wouldn’t like to include Black into his list of
nonsensical movies)
Sanjay Leela Bansali’s movie has everything
that is pleasing to the eye – massive settings, colorful celebrations, heartthrobs
of the nation as leads & undying romance between them. Just that leave your
brains behind when you go to see his movies and you will come out pleased with
all that you saw.
What could have turned out to be
a great tribute to the Maratha Peshwa, turned out to be a mockery of his love
for his second wife. I mean, he’s done a
great thing in choosing the story – that of Bajirao. There is so much more that
can be shown about him, that he fought 39 undefeated battles, the valor in him,
his courage, the sheer determination with which he attacked his enemies and
returned back undefeated ….. But no! he chose to romanticize the movie leaving
behind the fact on what a great warrior Bajirao was! Had he created a totally
unrealistic movie with unrealistic characters and the same story line, it would
not have been so offending to Bajirao!
Acting per say, Ranveer Singh, Priyanka
Chopra and Deepika Padukone have done justice to what was expected out of them
for the role. But where were their brains when they signed up for the movie
which showed no facts. They could have done a little bit of background check on
the story before agreeing to act. I mean, now a day’s actors are far from
acting just for awards.
And looking at the story that
Sanjay Leela Bansali has woven, looks like he did not need a lot of brains to do
that as well. All he did was take a little bit of stories from his previous
movies and song picturization from Mughal-E-Azam and voila! You get
Bajirao Mastani a box office hit!
One apparently doesn’t need to
carry his brains to the multiplex to watch this generation’s bollywood movies!
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