Scene 1- (Year 1998) I was 11, when i took my brother with me forcefully to watch my favorite actor's(Srk's) movie. The movie had already bombed at the Indian box office. But i heard somewhere that this movie has made it to the Top 10 list of UK Box office. So i insisted, but later regretted. After the movie was over,i was like-- where is the real SRK that we all love??why is he overreacting in the movie??what is this girl doing in the movie??. Though i loved Preity Zinta like all of us did. But i thought i would never watch such movie again in my life.
Cut 2--(Year 2009) I have been a regular visitor of IMDb, there are 100's of movies which i loved and i have watched it over n over again, but never bothered to register on this site to comment on them. But today, I broke my years long promise of not to watch this movie and i saw it again, and i was taken aback. I specially took some time out to register on this website and to post something about this movie. I did this just because of the following reasons, which actually justify why i have given 10 stars rating to this movie: - -- It is one of the most intelligent movies that Bollywood has ever produced. Expect few songs, the entire movie runs at a very fast speed.
-- Santosh Sivan did a wonderful job in not only capturing the beauty of Ladakh, but also in involving us as much as he could.
-- A.R. Rehman's best work till date. Though some songs were unnecessarily added in the movie, but still I didn't mind that because they are simple outstanding. Not just his songs but also his background music is something to write about, which is simply superb.
-- High production values.
-- Proper doses of humour and romantic elements, has made this Romantic thriller, very pleasant to watch.
-- Extra Ordinary Direction by Mani Ratnam.( I don't know how much Shekhar Kapoor, Ram Gopal Verma and Bobby Bedi were involved in writing and execution of the movie)The story is powerful and its execution is out of the world.The subject has been treated very cleverly by Mani Ratnam.
-- Lastly and most importantly, Supreme Performances by its lead actors. After few minutes into the movie, I never felt that this is SRK and Manisha Koirala, who are acting there in Sub Zero temperature. This is SRK's best work till date. No one in bollywood could have played this part with such an obsession like SRK did. Not for a second, i thought this is SRK. I was so involved in his character and that was possible only and only because of SRK. Manisha Koirala has done complete justice to her role of meghana. Just watch her emote in every sequence of this movie. Its really sad to see that she is not getting good roles now a days. What a waste of such a brilliant actress. Both the actors deserved an award, but there used to be a rule in bollywood(and still is??)that if the movie is a success, the even the worst actors can get best actor's award.
Just because indians were not ready for such an intelligent movie, this movie was a disaster at the Indian Box Office. But, this is a Masterpiece which grows over you with every scene of it.
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