I went for the movie Veer-Zaara yesterday & found it a fantastic piece of work from Yash Chopra as a Director after his earlier directed movie DTPH. After receiving a mixed response from the audience , I was thinking continuously whether to go or not , but as most of the film critics gave it thumbs up & a good Box-Office report , did not stop me to attend this masterpiece prepared by Yashji .
As I heard from someone that the role done by SRK, Preity , Rani Mukherjee is a sort of stereotype and the movie has nothing special to offer made me afraid even before entering the cinema hall.
But as we heard the famous saying in hindi that Bandar kya jaane adrak ka swaad i.e. THE MONKEY DOESN’T KNOW THE TASTE OF GINGER..
Absolutely suited those persons who tried their best blew the bugle regarding the failure of the movie , by giving their empty minded opinion as by trying to act like a professional film critic.
Why I am so harsh here is because if you don’t like this movie what else you may like , the film is neither stereotypical nor it resembles in absolute terms to any of Yash Raj’s earlier production . It tries to give us a simple and an old message but in a different style.
CAST
Shahrukh Khan
Preity Zinta
Rani Mukherjee
Amitabh
Hema Malini
Manoj Bajpai
Boman Irani
Kiron Kher
Divya Dutta
Anupam Kher
Music : Late Madan Mohan
Directed by:Yash Chopra
MOVIE
The movie setup is on both side’s Punjab(INDIA & PAKISTAN)
Film starts with a melodious song featuring SRK at his best and suddenly at the end of the song we see SRK with his new getup as an old QUAIDI (prisoner) in the picture ( believe it or not even in running third week of the movie he receives a round of applause from theatre audience ) , he has been in jail for the last 22 years , Rani Mukherjee plays a role of debutant lawyer who had been given the case of ‘prisoner no. 786’ ( the official name by which SRK is addressed by jail authority ), she meets him in the jail and addresses by his name ‘VEER PRATAP SINGH’ & aks him the reason for which he was handcuffed by PAKISTAN POLICE , Veer (SRK) tells her his flash black when he was an Air-Force rescue pilot and happened to meet Zaara (Preity Zinta) a Pakistani girl on her(Zaara’s) voyage to India when the bus in which Zaara was traveling meets with an accident. Zaara was saved by SRK as a part of his recue operation.
Zaara being an outsider asks for help from Veer for the purpose for which she is here , Veer helps Zaara in her purpose successfully and starts having an emotional attachment with her , in due course Veer invites her to his village and henceforth her nodding to Veer’s proposal brings “fun time” in the movie so Zaara meets Veer’s family , his caretaker father & mother Amitabh & Hema respectively.
After this public enjoys some light moments in the movie. During this phase the Punjabi lingo takes driver’s seat with a stupendous Lodi song in between adding more color to the movie.It is the first time a bollywood movie happens to give real Punjabi look with Amitabh , SRK , Hema speaking fluent Punjabi (which is of course not out of reach).
After spending a day with Veer’s family its the time for Zaara to leave after a joyful visit to India , during this time Veer is forced by his father to propose Zaara , which adds skates to Veer’s feet already aiming Zaara.
When SRK is about to propose Zaara he is promted by sudden entry of Manoj Bajpai who is already engaged to her. In the absence of Manoj’s for just a moment Veer tells Zaara regarding his love towards her , Veer’s admission of true love for Zaara makes her thinking continuously when she reaches her home at LAHORE in Pakistan. She remembers Veer in a wonderfully sung Udit Naryana’s song .After watching her crying , her friend (Divya) calls Veer all the way to INDIA and urges him to come and take Zaara along with him as she is has fallen mad in her love .
Veer meets Zaara at a Dargah and hence everyone in the family of Zaara comes to know this fact , Boman Irani Zaara’s father falls ill after this incident and hence Kiron Kher Zaara’s mother urges VEER not to marry Zaara , surprisingly to which Veer agrees & decides to leave Pakistan after making Zaara agree to her mother’s wish.
As Veer is about to leave Pakistan , he is falsely nabbed by Pakistan Police in a Spying case which had a hand of Manoj Bajpai .He gives Veer two choices either accept the allegation to keep Zaara happy or reject the allegation as a result endanger her life. As a true lover Srk accepts the second condition and decided to remain in the jail. Veer has been declared dead by authorities as the BUS going to India was deliberately met with an accident , and ‘Rathore’(False name of SRK) takes birth instead of VEER.
Rani decides to fight out of skin to free SRK from the jail but see a daunting task ahead as City’s best lawyer(Anupam Kher) is the defence .She urges him to have an out of court settlement but all in vain.
How She fights out ? How she gets SRK out of jail? How Zaara meets Veer is a matter which I don’t like to tell because there can be someone who hasn’t watched the movie till yet , I am not interested in reaveling the secret which makes movie so interesting.
But this much I can tell that movie was an absolute magic.
MESSAGE
A simple message which movie tries to deliver is that Love sees no boundaries ,
no age. It may consist of a sacrifice even at the cost of your earning , your loved ones , your own country .
And my message is to watch this movie with open heart , with your family, with your love , It’s a movie which offers entertainment with emotion.
It consists of many new things such as :
NO FORGEIN LOCATION (EXCEPT ONE SONG)
PATRIOTISM WITH LOVE FOR OTHER COUNTRY
NO WESTERN INFLUENCE
BOX-OFFICE
As far as box office report is concerned this movie has already earned 27cr. In its 2nd week much higher than MHN, MURDER etc.. BIGGIES OF THIS YEAR.(2nd week earnings)
Ranked 6th in UK in second week.
Already a Hit Movie , All set to become a super hit .
HOPING A LOT FROM SWADES AFTER SUCH SPLENDID PERFORMANCE BY SHAHRUKH