Love, reality & compromises. These three words are always interconnected. Love is not always found easily. Love is a feeling that can drive away the worries to unknown distances yet it is the same love that attaches the strings of inalienable feelings in the form of pain, suffering and Compromises. All these observed in totality constitute Reality. Reality is very different from dreams. Dreams present to you just the lovely aspects of Love whereas Reality… Reality Bites.
In this Tamil remake, Director Shaad Ali endeavors for emerging out to be one in the likes of Farhan Akhtar and has been partly successful in doing so. Mani Ratnam prefers to stay in the background and indulges just into the story and screenplay. Needless to say that when you have Mani involved in a project, you have great expectations from the movie
Saathiya definitely brings out a fresh feel tailed with it. With the star cast involving fresh, peppy, vigorous & young Vivek Oberoi , Sweet, dreamy-eyed, harsh voiced yet enticing Rani Mukerji (Notice the spelling of Mukherjee..Does Numerology helps..Eh!?), this movie gives a look much needed in today’s cinema.
Star cast chosen is very fresh and thus adds to the look of the film shot beautifully. In case some of you are wondering, Yes this review would not peep into the story of Saathiya for it has already been reviewed a million times before this one.
Saathiya elicits emotions of a different kind. It isn’t a regular Hindi movie you would watch across your cable..Umm I mean in theatres. Saathiya provides a thought process in the perception of two young individuals. Love is the string connecting them. As one might expect and preferably so, these two individuals happen to face reality once they decide to estrange themselves from the orthodox society and its umpteen formalities. Reality was always ready to be a hurdle in the marathon of their life. Reality shows them what they wouldn’t have expected otherwise had they been living their own lives singularly.
This movie burrows the superficial goodness that is always formed or witnessed to have been formed every time a guy falls in love with a girl. I often wonder why do people always fall in love. Yet this is not the thing that would be most likely discussed here as I see no one else is interested in forming an opinion about this at this point of hour. Yet this movie shows how they rise in reality once they fall in love.
Vivek Oberoi plays a college student ’’Aditya’’ while Rani plays a medical student ’’Suhani’’ . Supporting Rani is Sandhya Mridul and plays her sister. All of the three have acted well. In fact, the movie is very simple, straight to the point and shot exquisitely and major portion of movie is shot in Mumbai. The role of parents is also played very naturally and this goes beyond doubt. The most apt compliment one can offer to an actor is that he is natural. The scenes involving the tete-a-tete between the parents in a middle class railway colony room is very pertinent to the script and is conditioned very well by the actors and not to forget the dialogues sporting innate wisdom in them with a pinch of humor at every needful moment.
The scenes depicting the building of reverence between Rani & Vivek are shot beautifully in the local trains and there’s where the director scores a Brownie point. Audience can identify with the movie and as said earlier in one of my reviews that if there is an instantaneous meshing of thoughts both from the source (movie) and the destination (audience), the movie is bound to do well within its scope.
To spread a layer of cheese on the sandwich, Shaad Ali employs the music maestro A.R. Rehman who swims to the shore first as far as accolades are concerned for the movie. This inimitable, godly, quasi-tansen delivers to the fullest. Music is very much likeable with the album including every song of sad, romantic, vibrant moods. Each song is fed at the right moment and this adds to cultivate more claps from the critics. For detailed description about music, please read my review for Saathiya Album, which strangely was written some 10 months ago.
The background music of this movie is utterly fabulous and though the instrumental versions of the songs are played in the movie, One piece of music is very new to me and must be brought to notice to you. Please keenly observe the part of the movie when Vivek Looks at Rani in the local trains and Rani hides behind her friend. The music used in this scene uses too little instruments yet it’s feel leads me to rhapsody.
Saathiya reflects the scenes of everyday life. It shows the impact of reality. It presents to us the kind of compromises that one should be ready to make if one cares enough about life partners. It shows us that though life is too short to hold grudges, it has to be lived every moment. Saathiya invokes smile, laughter, love, kindness, apathy, agony, amity, practicality-----------> Reality. Are you ready to be what it takes?