chanakya-dwivedi Sanjay Leela Bhansali might offer you one of the best cinematography in the Indian cinema, but the same cannot be said about the quality of his movies. When he made this movie, I guess he wanted to add everything that he could to this movie, drama, comedy, emotion, romance, tragedy, sacrifice, etc, etc. The movie looked very similar to a saas-bahu serial with even bigger sets and even more expensive costumes. In some scenes the characters of the movie were having fun on the dinner table, somewhere they were singing, somewhere they were flying kites, etc, etc. Then the love story, then the issues because of the family(which I could not understand very clearly as Sameer seemed to be a decent fellow but still the girl's family had problems with him as if he was an alien). Then entered Ajay Devgan who it seemed acted in the movie as if he had to pay off some old debt of the director. He looked irritated, sad, angry, and cheated for most part of the film. It seemed as if the director had taken inspiration from saas-bahu serials and some fairy tales. After seeing the movie you would be left thinking that this was probably one of the most impractical movies that you would have seen in your entire life. Some scenes of the movie leave you irritated beyond any repair. I would like to mention one particular scene from the movie where Ajay Devgan and Salman Khan are sitting in the Church and Ajay Devgan is about to ask Salman khan his name but he is interrupted by someone. You should actually see the scene to understand what I am trying to say. In the end I would want to say that Mr. Bhansali made a movie for the audience who were tired of seeing serials at their home and wanted to come to the theatre to see the same thing at a grand scale with much bigger sets and a bigger starcast.

Queen_of_pentacles Is this Gujarat really in India ? So much abundance of every thing, people having no other business than dressing in their so-called traditional attires, dancing and singing at the slightest provocation, eating at mile-long tables, and that joker Salman Khan trying to woo Aishwarya, who overacts to no limits! After Hum Aapke Hain Kaun ?, this another painfully lengthy, loud, unrealistic,over-dramatic movie i have seen. And it goes on and on, having not much substance in the first half, and some illogical situations in the second half. Sum total? Helpless wait to see the end, suitable for our so-called values taught by Indian Cultural Academy. Same plot line , give it to any sensible director, or an artistically inclined Bengali director, and they would have spun gold out of it, by capturing the dynamics, the tensions, and not to speak about the dialogs.What Bhansali as a director is interested into ,is nothing else but stunning the audience with his extravaganza , locations abroad, and establishing Salman - Ash as the most romantic pair of Bollywood. But both of them prove to be rather irritating, no matter how much hard they try ! Compared to them, Ajay gives a restrained and leveled performance, and does well, as a frustrated yet a loving man, who has married a wrong girl; actually he is a relief in this movie. An overdose of idiotic melodrama, costume parades, fake situations.. that's what the likes of Bhansali feed our gullible crowds in India and abroad. Is it possible that the truth will dawn on these guys one day, that all the viewers are not as vulnerable and low in intelligence quotient as they conveniently think ? Carry enough pop corn , to bravely sit through this movie ,to last it till the even more stupid and anti-climax of an end.

g-delhi Bhansali made Khamoshi and though getting high ratings by critics the film was rejected by audience. With HDDCS Bhansali has won the confidence of both critics and audience.Nandini(Aishwarya Rai) falls in love with Sameer(Salman Khan), a music disciple of her father.Sameer also deeply loves Nandini. But her conservative father is against the relationship and sends Sameer back to Italy ,where he came from.He marries off Nandini to Vanraj(Ajay Devgan).Vanraj comes to know about the relationship between Nandini and Sameer.He then ,defying the society, decides to take nandini to Italy to hand her over to her love,Sameer.And then starts the beautiful journey of love,affections,confusions and hesitations all of which I think are the beauty of human emotions. Ajay is awesome and the movie is a must watch just because of his performance.He has perfectly portrayed an ordinary looking,shy yet bold guy. Aishwarya delivers her best performance ever as an aggressive and defying lady.Salman looks good in his nonsense "cool guy" act.But He gets over that nonsense stuff and delivers in the climax.The music of the movie is a class act by Ismail Darbar. Songs like "Aankhon ki Gustakhiyaan" and "Chaand Chhupa" will always be remembered.Kavita Krishnamurthy is fabulous.Kay Kay has delivered his best with "Tadap Tadap ke".Hariharan's "Jhonka Hawa ka" is one of the best songs I have ever heard.One of the best movies I've ever seen. It won't disappoint you.

santanu_de The second half of Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam is loosely inspired by the 1983 Naseeruddin- Padmini- Anil Kapoor film "Woh 7 Din" which itself was a remake of a South Indian Film.The first half's plot is from Maitrayi Devi's Bengali novel "Na Hanyate" (English translation: It does not die) which was written in response to world-renowned scholar Mircea Eliade's semi-autobiographical novel "Bengal Nights". There are several resemblances, including the 'mirchi-eating' incident, which suggest that they are more than uncanny resemblances.There are numerous films in several languages which have been based on literary works. There is nothing inherently wrong in that, except that in this case, Bhansali has not acknowledged the 'right' source of his work. We have heard that HDDCS has been based on a script told to him by one of his Gujarati fans. Really, Mr Bhansali? Or is it a case of acting naive and passing the responsibility of plagiarism to your Gujarati fan when one finds out?