Tamasha is about Ved and Tara who meet, pretend and decide never to meet again. They meet after many years, fall in love. Ved proposes her. She declines saying that he is not the same Ved she had met few years back. Ved is stuck in a rut. He finds his way out and also to his girls heart.
Imtiaz Ali is a maverick. Watching this movie made me feel that I was reading a novel by Paulo Cohelo. It is nice. It is about finding your own calling. This is Imtiaz’s familiar territory. He has dealt it successfully in his earlier movies.
But this time he fails while retaining the entertainment quotient. Even the way Ved and Tara’s love blossoms required more time. But Imtiaz, like Sanjay Leela Bhansali, has wasted more time in his locations, in making every scene scenic. More time should have been spent on the script. Tamasha is a different film for sure. But it is incorrect to praise it by covering up its faults and calling it an unconventional film.
No wonders that the film did not do wonders at the box office. May be that will make Imtiaz ponder "why always the same story."