Saawan, directed by Saawan Kumar, is a love story that follows the insane patH from the very first scene!
Raj (Kapil Jhaveri) and Kajal (Saloni Aswani) are holidaying in Cape Town. After a little persuasion, the love-struck boy manages to win the girl’s heart, following which the two go about singing and dancing to their heart’s content.
To the further convenience of the two lovers, their fathers also turn out to be childhood friends.
Lightening strikes when a strange man (Salman Khan), a man gifted with an ability to see the future in one prediction, he declares to the heroine that her father would die at night.
The prediction comes true. Next, he predicts that the heroine (Kajal) herself would die in the coming days. What happens next?
To state that the story is weird and tests the intelligence of viewer would not be wrong. Besides an unengaging plot, the storytelling is equally lackluster.
Saawan Kumar, who has scripted the film as well, has left too many questions unanswered. Besides, the screenplay is interspersed with too many songs, which keep coming at regular intervals, without any situation to justify them. Even the romantic track is far from convincing.Clearly, originality and freshness are missing in the enterprise.
Directorially, the film fails to engross one’s attention. Music is poor beyond imagination. Cinematography is functional.
Salman Khan tries hard to act, but fails. Saloni is plain average. Kapil Jhevari is alright.
Saawan is aimed to be another disaster in Salman’s cap after Kyon KI..
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