Answers for the critics questons
SPOILERS!! PLEASE DO NOT READ IF YOU HAVE NOT ALREADY SEEN THE MOVIE!
I personally liked this movie alot. I have no bias either. I used to respect Taran Adarsh even though I did not agree with him about Swades. But now the questions he posed on Saawariya made me realize that he does not understand high class films. That makes me wonder how he understood an A-rate film like Gandhi My Father. Here are his questions and their answers:
1.Which part of the country is this straight-out-of-a-fairytale town located? And what era are we talking of?
2.Even if you subscribe to the theory that it was love at first sight for Salman and Sonam, what is it that keeps their romance going?
3.Why does Salman disappear suddenly? Besides his name, the girl knows nothing about him. Not his home/native place, work/profession/work place, relatives, nothing absolutely. It's like falling in love with a shadow, isn't it?
4.Why does Rani Mukerji abandon Ranbir, when he comes knocking on her doors and admits that he wants to spend time with her? Why does she lose her temper, although she secretly loves him?
5.And Salman returns. The sequence that follows and the culmination to the story leave you completely disgruntled and perplexed!
Answers:
1.The element of mystery and the unknown is what gave this movie its special flavor and class.
2.There romance seem to be blooming over time. I don't really subscribe to the idea that it was love at first sight between them. I got the feeling that they passed sometime together. It wasn't like Salman was only at Sonam's house for a week. Nothing I can do if Taran didn't feel that.
3.Salman dissapears because he was apparently a spy for the country and was called to duty suddenly. And he himself said I cant makeyou my weakness to Sonam which gives us the idea that he is in such a profession like spying or maybe even a terrorist. Because when somebody in that line of work is caught they go straight for his relatives, hometown,etc. So he couldn't tell Sonam anything about himself. Also SLB was showing us pure and unconditional love which doesn't think of professon or hometown.
4.Rani was displaying the spirit of sacrafice, because she wants Ranbir to get Sonam and not roam, dejected in the alleys of her prostitute neighborhood for the rest of his life. No matter how much she loves him, she holds his love in higher regard.
5.Salman's return was well shot and it can only mean that he finally got sometime off from whatever his secret profession was to come for Sonam. That's why he asks her if she can live a life of sadness with him. Which again reinforces my point of Salman's profession being something definitely out of the ordinary. Also the part that brough tears to my eyes was Ranbir "boxing" with the unhappiness of losing Sonam in the closing frame which told me to keep on fighting and that life always goes on as long as you keep on "boxing".
Some of these answers were even directly answered in the movie, while other barely require any brain power to deduce. It doesn't require an Einstein to figure them out. So tell Taran to have a good nights sleep or at least think before writing such an off-colour review.
I'm a rebel.