An excellent review of Saawariya in Rediff.com by a reader
Saawariya is one long song with some breaks for dialog. And by dialog I mean
girly giggling by the chic and some punch-me-in-the-face expressions
accompanied by pig-like grunting by the hero. One wonders if all the actors
are the props and the set is the real star in this movie. I came really
close to concluding that the bridge-over-the-fake-river is the central star
of the movie, because everyone of the other actors looks like they were made
of rock. And the rocks had moss growing over them. And the rocks were
painted blue
To say Saawariya is a crappy movie would not be correct. Horrendously
Ridiculous comes close, but it doesn’t really capture the essence of the
absurdity that this movie is. After watching this movie I felt like tying up
Sanjay Leela Bansali alone in a room, forcing him to watch a cockroach chase
a spider round-and-round a water fountain for 3 hours. That too in blue
light. Because seriously, that’s what this entire movie is. It’s two grossly
untalented kids, who probably got kicked out of college for lack of
attendance and ended up on this set to spend the rest of the day. And for
the love of God, I can’t figure out why the whole movie is in blue! Maybe
the director was trying to get every frame half-black half-blue so that the
WinZip compression would work better to save some electrons, what with all
the global warming and all. That’s the best explanation I could come up
with, because nothing else can explain the lack of daylight
