This was the second Bollywood movie I've ever seen (after Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham... or does Moulin Rouge count?) and I was blown away. I'm not used to this degree of complexity in musicals or romance films (at 3 hours, it'd better be complex.) Sure, it could have been four films, but the three stories of the young lovers lead up to a bigger story, about the battle between love and fear, between Machiavelli and Rousseau. Of course, Bachchan and Khan sold the idea, by showing that their characters both loved and both hated, and their battles were over the inevitability of change, the constance of impermanence, and the need for completion. A shorter way to say it is, they took what should have been a Hollywood ending, and made it work. The singing, dancing, comedy and pathos were a good distraction, which is what good movies should do. It really felt like they took all that showmanship to explain a greater truth, which is what great movies should do. Of course, I'm in love right now, so I'm kinda biased... I gave it a 9/10.
Review of Mohabbatein
