It's fun, despite how my importunate brain tells me it's not!
It's all about difficult love story, and how the young spoiled brat became that strong fighter who could win his love, and defend it successfully, thanks to the Indian militaristic academy (the patriotic tone is so high in here).
On the top of the fun's reasons is (Amitabh Bachchan)'s role. After years and years of watching him as the ever angry young man, who's searching for his lost: brother, sister, mother, father (or sometimes all of them together!), now the man has had it, like us to tell you the truth, and after few years of retirement, he produced a movie in which he became an older angry man who acts as the severe mentor not as the noisy rebel, which was catchy to watch.
I loved the wonderful son & father relationship between the kid and his mentor, the dreamy ending, (Bachchan) as a charismatic middle-aged major, and wounded father who lost a son and wants to raise another yet by cruelty, (Nafisa Ali) who played his affectionate wife, the marvelous cinematography, the fervent as well as poetic editing, and that smart directing which enjoyed us all the way, with expressive shots and charming vitality.
It has some magical moments: The first emergence of (Bachchan) as a steely officer, the beaten kid struggles to crawl to the academy's door by the encouragement of his major, the musical meeting of the lovers at the mountain; which I thought for seconds that it would be another romantic Indian song, but it turned out to be a delicate scene just about the charm of love in the air.
Speaking about songs, this commercial movie has few ones which are rarely essential to the story. Just remember "Deewana Ban" as a song and montage about the kid's training to cure himself from his injuries, and build his will; where there was a unique harmony between image and sound. "Pyaar Tumse Karna Hai" which the lead and his girl sang to her family, as a clear statement about their love, instead of a dialogue scene. And in "Sona Sona" the delight was well-made sonically and visually.
But on the other hand (Ahh, my brain is her to revenge, runaway all the lovers of the movie!), there were problems. Their biggest is that climactic sequence with its unbelievable events, where (Bachchan) burst into the girl's wedding with his armed ground forces, attacking her family by cannons, plus the end's weirdest board ever, about the execution of the major and his cadet, because what they have done (read by Bachchan himself!); which maybe was an action forced by the censorship to warn anyone who may try to defend his love by guns, or to make sure that the high commanders, like (Bachchan) in the movie, can't get away with it. But, obviously, that ruined the happy ending, if not the whole thing. Add to that how bad the wig of (Bachchan) was, how dull the action scene at the cave seemed, and how frigid (Ajay Devgan) was!
So, it has little weakness, with shocking if not laughable ending. But if you forget about that, then you'll have a real good time with it, as a nice well-meaning dream. Cinema includes that kind of dreams, and this is part of its beauty.
It's all about difficult love story, and how the young spoiled brat became that strong fighter who could win his love, and defend it successfully, thanks to the Indian militaristic academy (the patriotic tone is so high in here).
On the top of the fun's reasons is (Amitabh Bachchan)'s role. After years and years of watching him as the ever angry young man, who's searching for his lost: brother, sister, mother, father (or sometimes all of them together!), now the man has had it, like us to tell you the truth, and after few years of retirement, he produced a movie in which he became an older angry man who acts as the severe mentor not as the noisy rebel, which was catchy to watch.
I loved the wonderful son & father relationship between the kid and his mentor, the dreamy ending, (Bachchan) as a charismatic middle-aged major, and wounded father who lost a son and wants to raise another yet by cruelty, (Nafisa Ali) who played his affectionate wife, the marvelous cinematography, the fervent as well as poetic editing, and that smart directing which enjoyed us all the way, with expressive shots and charming vitality.
It has some magical moments: The first emergence of (Bachchan) as a steely officer, the beaten kid struggles to crawl to the academy's door by the encouragement of his major, the musical meeting of the lovers at the mountain; which I thought for seconds that it would be another romantic Indian song, but it turned out to be a delicate scene just about the charm of love in the air.
Speaking about songs, this commercial movie has few ones which are rarely essential to the story. Just remember "Deewana Ban" as a song and montage about the kid's training to cure himself from his injuries, and build his will; where there was a unique harmony between image and sound. "Pyaar Tumse Karna Hai" which the lead and his girl sang to her family, as a clear statement about their love, instead of a dialogue scene. And in "Sona Sona" the delight was well-made sonically and visually.
But on the other hand (Ahh, my brain is her to revenge, runaway all the lovers of the movie!), there were problems. Their biggest is that climactic sequence with its unbelievable events, where (Bachchan) burst into the girl's wedding with his armed ground forces, attacking her family by cannons, plus the end's weirdest board ever, about the execution of the major and his cadet, because what they have done (read by Bachchan himself!); which maybe was an action forced by the censorship to warn anyone who may try to defend his love by guns, or to make sure that the high commanders, like (Bachchan) in the movie, can't get away with it. But, obviously, that ruined the happy ending, if not the whole thing. Add to that how bad the wig of (Bachchan) was, how dull the action scene at the cave seemed, and how frigid (Ajay Devgan) was!
So, it has little weakness, with shocking if not laughable ending. But if you forget about that, then you'll have a real good time with it, as a nice well-meaning dream. Cinema includes that kind of dreams, and this is part of its beauty.