Review of Tamasha

Imtiaz Ali is master story teller, he had told us so many twisted love storied dealing with complex human emotions, but with “Tamasha” he has gone one step further as it is not only limited to the love story between two soul mates, rather it tries to tell another view of love that is loving yourself. Unless you love yourself you cannot love others. It tries to convey the message one should hear to his or her inner voice. Don’t just go with the flow rather write your own story doing what you want to do actually.

The story begins with a young kid Ved who hear stories regularly from a story teller and it fascinates him very much also he has one query why all story is same. Whether it is Sita or Juliet or Sohini all are going through the same pain same for the Heroes. From very childhood Dev wants to be a story

teller and want to write his own story which will have something different than the regular stories but time goes on and he has to fit himself as a mediocre Engineer with family pressure. Now grown up Dev (Ranbir Kapoor) goes to Corsica to live his life on his own for someday without any bounding. Here he meets a girl Tara (Deepika Padukone) who has lost his passport and other valuable things on a vacation trip in Corsica. They played a game with each other to have fun in life without disclosing their real identities. They introduce themselves as Don and Mona (Taking names from old Hindi movies).They decide to have fun and to never meet again once the trip is over. As promised they have lots of fun together though without being physical and after one week they parted away. But after coming back from the trip Tara could not forget Don/Dev. After four long

years she realizes it is love. By chance she gets a transfer to Delhi same city where Dev works in a multinational company. As destiny had planned they meet once again, this time with real identity and real love. They have a perfect love life, dinner dates, movie outings, a perfect marriage proposal but Tara realizes it is not the same guy she had met at Corsica. Dev is not the carefree, bindass Don, rather he is an well behaved decent guy who is just living his life to be always perfect. They broke up as Tara wants to get her Don back. From here Dev start his soul searching mission, who he is in real. Whether he was acting as Don or it was the real him and he is acting in the life of  Dev. His self discovery leads him to understand his inner voice.  He understands what brings him real happiness, what he actually wants to be.

Like any other Imtiaz Ali story it is also quite different, but this time the treatment is quite different from regular commercial movies. In some parts it will remind you of another Ranbir Imtiaz collaboration Rockstar”. The screenplay has some interesting moments, the dialogues are real and funny but it has its low moments too in some portions. The prologue part is quite lengthy also the main story has nothing much to do with the fact whether all stories are same or not because at the end the on screen love story has a predictable end. The Corsica portions are visually delightful but do not take the story any further. The second half where Dev discover his inner self is too much philosophical for regular cinegoers.

As a director Imtiaz Ali is always brilliant to portray human emotions as real as possible. But his treatment to the story this time is for a limited section of audiences only.

Ranbir Kapoor is back with a bang after two back to back disasters. Finally he has got a character to showcase his talent. He is just brilliant from start to finish. He is as charming as desired as Don at the

same time he looks so sincere as Dev . He has got the scope to show every possible emotion from comedy to emotion to dance and he shines in each department.

Deepika Padukone has once again proved that she is one the best talents of Bollywood in current generation. She is so expressive with her emotions that you will instantly fall in love with her from her first appearance. She has lesser screen time compared to her hero but she manages to impress everyone whenever she comes to screen.

Together Ranbir and Deepika have a fire crackling chemistry. They bring magic together on screen. They should work together quite often. Watch them in the scene before interval when Tara denies marrying Dev or the scene where Tara apologizes to Dev for her behaviour and both of them broke down in tears. The scenes are quite amazing.

Among the technical team it is cinematographer S. Ravi Barman who has done an excellent job with his lens. Whether it is Corsica or Shimla or Delhi he has created eye soothing frames in every location. The costumes by Aki Narula and Anaita Shroff are quite stylish.The choroegraphy of the "Matargashti" is quite interesting. The editing could have been sharper and the length could have been reduced by some 10-15 minutes.

The music by A.R.Rehman is quite nice and goes well with the story. The songs like “Matargashti”, “Agar Tum Saath Ho”, “Heer To Badi Sad hai” are already popular and works well for the film too. It will grow in you more after watching the songs in the movie, specially the “Agar Tum Saath Ho” song.

Overall it is a different film with a good message, not a regular rom-com. Watch it for powerful performance by the lead. It has its ups and downs but can be a good one time watch.