A misunderstood movie!!!

Rating: 9/10 (15 February 2013)

When the movie got released, many complained that they didn't like it for various reasons. But mainly coz of its so called abrupt ending that they didn't like. I think it was misunderstood and even a bit mis-realized at the very first place.
Don't know somebody has thought of it or not, but the blame for this comes down on two things -
1)Strong role, weak actress : the whole life of Jordan was revolving around this girl he loved. She played the strongest part in his life and the film's story. This role required a lot of conviction and expertise of an accomplished actress. But what we got instead, a new comer calendar girl who was a new joinee into kindergarten acting school. I believe that was the biggest mistake made by Imtiaz. Selecting Nargis Fakhri for such an important role that was the basis of super-strong performance of Ranbir and his music (one of bests of AR Rahman). Nargis tried her very best and gave a pretty decent performance for a new comer, but, infront of these very strong people, she looked completely out of place.
2)Marketing: Sadda Haq, yes this song was great and all. But using this song as the prime weapon of publicity was a blunder b'coz the movie was a love story and this song set the mood otherwise. I heard many people saying that we expected that Jordan would be a rebel against the corrupt system (in the League of Rang De Basanti). There are no 2 thoughts about it, it was a very personal and intimate movie, but in contrast, Sadda Haq was a totally rebellious and crowd-pulling song and not apt for marketing the movie. Also, the whole movie was thought of to be presented as Jordan(Ranbir) being the sole driver of the story. But in fact, he was driven by Heer(Nargis) at each step. And as I already said, she was no match to what the role demanded. The movie would have been so better if they would have got an accomplished actress instead of a newcomer. With Ranbir, AR Rahman, Imtiaz Ali and Mohit Chauhan, bars were already very high for this movie, why don't they seriously thought while selecting the main lead actress also, i don't know. They should have given equal weightage to lead actress too. Then the ending would have been more clear and satisfying. B'coz movie doesn't end with Jordan's life, it ends with Heer's life and explaining "when and where" Jordan and Heer will live happy together, forever.
Still after these flaws, it is 1 of my personal favorites of all time. And i give it 9/10 (minus 1 for Nargis). This is what we call "one step behind the true perfection". But apart from these reasons, it is truly a great effort by Imtiaz and and i would like to congratulate Ranbir n Mohit for this particular movie.