Guzaarish is an Indian movie released in 2010. It is written and directed by Sanjay Leela Bhansali. The subject is somewhat moralistic as the story is quite different from normal routine. Sanjay Leela Bhansali is a master of his profession as his direction is excelent but sorry to say he is not a writer whenever he tries his hand in writin he fails. Guzaarish is one of such examples. He is portraying Ethan Mascarenhas (Rithik Roshan) as a lively, energetic crippled person restricted to his wheel chair and drastically showing him making a plea to the judge for mercy killing himself.
The story is about a magician who has become the prey of his own trick and now confines to a wheel chair. The set is 19th century Purtaguees who are living in Goa. The life of those people who are living their making a community is creating authentic environment. A club is shown where a singer is entertaining the club member. There Ethan also performed his magic and other purtaguees. We know their lives but the stories remain incomplete. Then come the radio life of Ethan who is admired by thousands of his liteners because of his lively chatting and beautiful interpretation of life. People do not know that these are the thoughts of a crippled man. Ethan is nursed by Sofia D’Souza (Aishwarya Rai) who is the wife of a drunkard and living a sort of escaped life from her husband in taking care of a crippled man who is totally dependant on her.There are so contradictions present in the movie that we cannot justify anyone and not even feels sympathy as they are living their lives according to their will. They leave nothing on the part of other people and not for the God to have mercy on their conditions. The conclusion is if Bhansaali wants to get accomplishment for his movie to win an award leave the writing job atleast to a writer.
Talking about cinematography, it is excellent no doubt, bhansaali is great in taking the characters to the lives of the roles in story. It seems we are really seeing the people around us. Character delineation is authentic and costumes relevency gives grace to the characters. As Rithik look dashing even if he is on wheel chair, Aishwarya is looking stunned in her nurse job as she realisticallt performing the duties of a nurse. All the other characters are at ther best performing skills. The appearance of Omar Siddique (Aditya Roy Kapoor) is quite refreshing and his ambition to become a perfect magician impreeses Ethan to transfer his hirarchy to him willingly as a deservant.
We can say Guzaarish can be an award winning movie if Guzaarish is written in sympathetic way. As Ethan guzaarish style is not convincing enough to win the sympathies of audience. Please don’t blame Rithik for being playing the role of Ethan, Rithik do full justification with the character so is Aishwarya as they were assigned the script. If script would be strong they surely win the award.
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