Mausam

It had all started with a hope. Industry’s one of the most promising directors had served you with his dream project- MAUSAM. Excitement was obvious. The trailers had so far been able to grab the attention of the audience very well and had already done enough to entitle this movie as ‘the most awaited’ at least for this season. Stage was all set. Curtains were still down and just to put some icing on this apparently delicious cake, MIG plane’s controversy also cast a shadow over the release. It got delayed for a week and the film unnecessarily faced a loss of a few million bucks in various premiere events. But needless to say, this entire Air Force disagreement saga did also contribute to the queues in front of advance booking counters. Crowd got even more convinced about the product and consequently became even more hopeful about the movie.

And then the day comes. After almost a month’s wait and a week’s delay the film finally gets released in the theaters all across the country. The hopeful crowd along with you, all enthralled by the fascinating previews of the movie, enters the theater and gets seated. In one of the foremost scenes from the movie the protagonist tries to race against a speeding train whilst riding a bi-cycle. He eventually loses the race but this sequence convincingly elevates your excitement level about the grip and the pace of the movie.

You stay even more relaxed now. Half an hour past the movie started, you see nothing much changing on the screen in terms of events. The same monotonous script running through the terrain of a few grin-evoking comic banters keeps on playing its part and you start losing your patience. This is where it actually starts going wrong from. The pace of the movie keeps on falling down exponentially and by the end of an hour you realize the fact that this is not exactly how it was supposed to be. You start begging for the break due to overdose of excessively long & boring romantic sequences But still you stay hopeful about getting a well balanced Bollywood deal. In the second half may be. And with some more struggle u finally get that interval.

Second half gets played. Your hopes start building over once again. But nothing works out. Movie doesn’t seem to be pushing the pedal even by a bit. All is slow, dead slow and amid all this slowness you discover your enthusiasm level that had once kicked off with a thrilling speed, has finally gone down to datum level. Hopes are buried by now somewhere down beneath the seats of the theater. Another supposedly excellent script has disappointed you. Another dud in the pack of an enticing Bolly-product has been served to you and you have fallen prey to yet another star-studded big banner cinema. You, being dejected and deprived of a good entertainment, come out of the theatre and head back to home with frustration and in this way “MAUSAM – A love story beyond Romance” eventually fails to go even beyond the mark of an AVERAGE BOLLYWOOD FLICK.


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