I was really looking forward to watching this movie. As they say too many expectations disappoint and that's what happened with me tonight. WYR is a big disappointment.
We all know the story still I will summarize it here hopefully without any spoilers. Yogesh Patel is an NRI who is forced to find and marry a girl within 10 days. He does not have much time so he decides to meet 12 girls – 1 from each rashee and each played by Priyanka Chopra and ultimately ends up marrying one of them. The movie has its good moments – and most of them belong to PC.
It is PC's best performance so far undoubtedly. This girl surprised everyone with her performance in Fashion and then in Kaminey and once again in WYR. Harman Baweja is huge improvement from Love Story 2050. He seems to have a good handle at comedy and does not disappoint. Darshan Jariwala is excellent as always. Dilip Joshi is funny and plays the role of a Gujarati business class person very effectively.
Music is very fresh and soulful. Baring one or two songs all of them are very well composed, written and sung. Jaao Na specially is very soothing. However, while watching the movie you realize they are forced in storyline. Nice camera-work. They have captured various facets of Mumbai including Marine Drive, Haji Ali, Kamla Nehru Park as well some areas of Navi Mumbai effectively.
The movie also has some really good social messages against dowry and child marriages.
However, I have some very basic questions for AG:
1. Was it really required to have one song per almost every character? 2. Was it really required for the movie to be 3 hours and 20 minutes long?
The biggest minus of the movie is its screenplay which is really weak. I am OK with long movies; I enjoyed Jodha Akbar even though it was equally long. But when a really long movie starts to bore you and you have to look at your watch several times during the movie - it definitely raises such a question. Seriously, WYR does not have content good enough for so much time. Had it been wrapped up within 2.5 hours it would have been a much more interesting movie.
I also found some of the stories (Tula, Dhanu and Sinha) pretty much unrealistic. The plot about whole 4 crore lost in share market is very weak and fact that the entire movie is based on it is bizarre. Stories involving each of PC characters should've been much shorter and preferably without those annoying songs. The movie also gets predictable towards the end. At least an hour before the end I correctly guessed the girl whom Yogesh Patel would marry.
Overall, one should watch this movie once and only once for PC. She should win Actress awards for this. However, be prepared to be bored for this marathon rom-com.
P.S.: I have not read Kimball Ravenswood by Madhu Rye. It's a very popular novel so I believe the movie adaptation has gone wrong and original story must be really good.
We all know the story still I will summarize it here hopefully without any spoilers. Yogesh Patel is an NRI who is forced to find and marry a girl within 10 days. He does not have much time so he decides to meet 12 girls – 1 from each rashee and each played by Priyanka Chopra and ultimately ends up marrying one of them. The movie has its good moments – and most of them belong to PC.
It is PC's best performance so far undoubtedly. This girl surprised everyone with her performance in Fashion and then in Kaminey and once again in WYR. Harman Baweja is huge improvement from Love Story 2050. He seems to have a good handle at comedy and does not disappoint. Darshan Jariwala is excellent as always. Dilip Joshi is funny and plays the role of a Gujarati business class person very effectively.
Music is very fresh and soulful. Baring one or two songs all of them are very well composed, written and sung. Jaao Na specially is very soothing. However, while watching the movie you realize they are forced in storyline. Nice camera-work. They have captured various facets of Mumbai including Marine Drive, Haji Ali, Kamla Nehru Park as well some areas of Navi Mumbai effectively.
The movie also has some really good social messages against dowry and child marriages.
However, I have some very basic questions for AG:
1. Was it really required to have one song per almost every character? 2. Was it really required for the movie to be 3 hours and 20 minutes long?
The biggest minus of the movie is its screenplay which is really weak. I am OK with long movies; I enjoyed Jodha Akbar even though it was equally long. But when a really long movie starts to bore you and you have to look at your watch several times during the movie - it definitely raises such a question. Seriously, WYR does not have content good enough for so much time. Had it been wrapped up within 2.5 hours it would have been a much more interesting movie.
I also found some of the stories (Tula, Dhanu and Sinha) pretty much unrealistic. The plot about whole 4 crore lost in share market is very weak and fact that the entire movie is based on it is bizarre. Stories involving each of PC characters should've been much shorter and preferably without those annoying songs. The movie also gets predictable towards the end. At least an hour before the end I correctly guessed the girl whom Yogesh Patel would marry.
Overall, one should watch this movie once and only once for PC. She should win Actress awards for this. However, be prepared to be bored for this marathon rom-com.
P.S.: I have not read Kimball Ravenswood by Madhu Rye. It's a very popular novel so I believe the movie adaptation has gone wrong and original story must be really good.