Saawan
Director: Sawan Kumar Tak
Starring: Salman Khan, Kapil Jhaveri, Saloni Aswani, Prem Chopra, Ranjeet, Bobby Darling, Kiran Rathod, Johny Lever
Music Dir: Aadesh Shrivastava, Sajid, Wajid
In our Film Industries Its experiment with new subject and treatment. But how many times the films with "zara hatke" look have delivered the needful. They have succeeded sometimes and failed many times and this film comes out as another big loser of this year.
No matter how different Saawan Kumar has tried to present this thriller-cum-love saga but the final result is a big disappointment. The unimpressive and raw debutantes, aging and fading style of filmmaking, preposterously planted script and above all below average direction speaks for the sorry state of this low profile love saga.
’Saawan - The Love Season’ is in no way an autobiographical attempt by producer-director Saawan Kumar Tak. This is an attempt to attract overseas viewers and thinking audiences with the concept of prophecies and premonitions. It might sound crazy but the filmmaker tries hard to generate interest in viewers with quizzical promos and unexplained one-liners.
Even the tragic moments where the heroine loses his father is complemented with happy-go-lucky trip to Dubai with his boyfriend. The protagonist Salman Khan is projected as tormented and lonely lover but no reasons for his painful love story and lost love (Kiran Rathod in special appearance). The authenticity and morality of characters and the story is questioned many times in this poorly conceived supernatural thriller.
’Saawan-The Love Season’ is the love story of happy-go-lucky Kajal (Saloni), who is enjoying her life to the extreme with her friends in the urban town of Capetown. The film starts off with Kajal dancing and singing with her friends (with mismatched dancing steps) on the exotic locations of Capetown, South Africa.
The tragic moments in the film are there to create emotions but this generates loads of laughter. Salman Khan gets the final verdict from the God that his soul will be transferred in Kajal’s body after his death. He fights with Raj and succumbs to his brutal beating. Kajal is alive once again but the prospects of film die before it could germinate.
Salman Khan is the only exceptional positive trait of the film but his brief and short-lived appearance is not sufficient for film to survive. Aadesh Srivastav’s music has some impressive tracks like "Tu Bhula De" and the title track but the rest of the tracks retard the pace of the film. Prem Chopra and Ranjeet justify their characters in short appearances.
Johny Lever and Bobby Darling share some comical titillating moments and impress too. In nutshell ’Saawan - A Love Season’ fails to blossom in this season and will fall without reasons.
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Jai Soni