A movie that hits you hard

Rating: Null/10 (29 December 2011)

An intense movie, that can be churned out only from the mill of bollywood. Imtiaz Ali breaks his own barrier to paint this masterpiece. While his earlier films Jab We Met & Love Aaj Kal showed that he holds tight grip on Romance as a genre, he goes a level up by adding the dark side to it in this movie. The result, a movie, with all its imperfection, that takes you to the journey of making of a ROCKSTAR.
Take a bow for Ranbeer kapoor, a.k.a Jordan, the main protagonist of the movie, as he brings the character to life, and not for a minute you would feel that he is a reel character. The sheer authenticity that he lends to the character, will make you believe that he has come into his own as an actor.
A.R Rahman, like a master craftsman, provide a music that will sweep you of your feet. The music is the soul of the movie, and is intermittently knitted into it. It sets the mood and the tone, for the scenes to come.
The weak point of the movie is the acting of Nargis. Though she is serene, she is unable to match the intensity of the movie and her lover Jordan. Had this part been done by a stronger actor, the movie would have been a dynamite.
You would feel that movie could have been improved with slight twist in treatments given to certain scenes but taking nothing away from the director, I will laud him for his audacity and effort to bring such a dark romance.