Honest performances, cute characters and lots of fun is what I can sum up this movie as. I am very happy to see that in last couple of months handful of good movies released in bollywood.
Welcome to Sajjanpur is a collection of many tales taking place in a village, Sajjanpur. As my friend Sachin rightly pointed out, this movie could have also given many other titles such as "Ek lekhak ki Atmakatha" or say "Saksharatha..!" or even "Munnibai Rocks". The movie covers various stories like superstitious mother who wants her daughter to get married to a dog and a young widow's re-marriage and even hijda, munnibai's election saga. The best part of the movie is all this drama is caught in a light-hearted and joyful comedy.
Strengths:
1. Shreyas Talpade, not an experienced actor but he stands out with his wonderful character. Superb justice to the role.
2. Humour, screenplay.
3. Bunch of lovable characters.
Weakness:
1. Music is not even hummable.
2. In the second half, the spirit and the tempo of the movie dampens a little bit.
It may not be a movie which will stay long in your mind but having said that its worth watching once. Go for its light hearted humour which blends with the screenplay so well that you enjoy the movie, but you will realise in second half that too many stories make the movie fermented. Amrita Rao, being my personal favorite she has chosen once again a role which will earn respect and fame for her. She is as usual looking innocent but this time she has also acted well. There are some scenes in the movie such as spam postcards/sms messages etc., which can be classified as intelligent humor. In short a very well crafted movie, which tries to highlight common problems in the village. Though I am itching to give it 7, since I looked my watch couple of times during the movie, I will again go out with 6.75/10 for this lovely movie.
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
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