When RK made Mera Naam Joker(MNJ), he had great expectations from it but the movie flopped at box office. It had the plot, it had beautiful songs, it had good acting, yet it did not appeal to the public at that time. Raj Kapoor took this to heart and came out with Bobby with two new comers to launch his son Rishi Kapoor (who was in Mera Naam Joker as child artist) and Dimple Kapadia. He had a point to prove to the same public which had rejected MNJ and he proved it with Bobby. We now have son of Rishi Kapoor - Ranbir and Sonam as the lead pair of Saawariya. SLB too has a point to prove on many fronts with the new comers, new composer, new-different kind of sets and with the simplest of love stories. One who is in true love will appreciate this movie more than a person who goes to a hall just to have outright fun seeing a masala Bollywood flick.
The way SLB has woven the fabric with frail thread of love is commendable. Agreed, the original story has been stretched a bit too long to have weak links here and there, yet on the whole, the movie is a work of art, that not everyone can understand and appreciate..not the masses atleast. To that extent, Saawariya may take a beating at box-office just as MNJ did.
While I was seeing the movie, I felt - What the heck! Why is it dragging and so long. This feeling was there all through the movie in most parts. After I came out and was driving back home, I was still thinking of the movie and the more I thought about it, the more I l
