Film Review : ‘Tamasha’
Imtiaz Ali who made his debut as a director, ten years ago , through a sensible film ‘Socha Na Tha’, later directed films like Super hit ‘Jab We Met’, musical ‘Love Aaj Kal’, another hit ‘Rockstar’ and then not so appealing ‘Highway’ , has now offered his latest film ‘Tamasha’, which just stands by its name. Through this film, he presents the characters of two youngsters Ved Vardhan Sahani ( Ranbir kapoor) and Tara Maheshwari ( Deepika Padukone)who meet each other in Corsica, France, by chance. And, for the first 40 minutes of the film, they promote tourism playing the brand ambassadors of this place, with no interesting happening.
You just cannot call it ‘love’ during their meeting there; but, both meet once again in India, and again you find them behaving like kids, though they look matured enough to take their other decisions in life. But, when it comes to love, they over react and fight with each other , as if the director had let them do, whatever they felt like. The first one hour of the film, is simply a waste of time. While the film portrays Ved’s life in three stages, till he turns a 30-year-old repatriate adult, trying to get out of the monotonous life; while Tara is shown belonging to a business family .Her father hands over his tea business to Tara, so that she could start a line of tea boutiques, taking the company ahead. However, when it comes to deciding on her life partner, she behaves like a teenager.
Therefore, in the film, we see lots of happenings , separating the two and bringing them back together, as we see them doing the same, while working on their film projects, for the past few years. One fails to understand as to why Ranbir had to imitate Dev Anand and call himself ‘Don’ and Deepika taking the name of Mona Darling ? when they meet for the first time.
With not so impressive screenplay to entertain the common man and also because of its complex story , extending to almost 150 minutes, the film has taken the regular film viewers for granted. The music by A.R.Rehman is also not very appealing. Only thing to be appreciated is the film’s photography captured in India and at foreign locations by Ravi Varman. All in all, this film produced by Sajid Nadiadwala and presented by UTV, this complex ‘Tamasha’ offers casual entertainment and is not the film for the masses, though the director has tried to offer something different.
Rating ( ** 1/2)