Artists (Cast) : Adam Smith, Callum Fuller, Herry Tangri, Janine Ballantyne, Joseph Andrew Mclean, Ken Matthews, Shahid Kapur, Sonam Kapoor, Anupam Kher, Supriya Pathak
Producer : Sheetal Vinod Talwar, Madhu Mantena Varma
Director : Pankaj Kapur
Music Director : Pritam Chakraborty
Producer : Sheetal Vinod Talwar, Madhu Mantena Varma
Director : Pankaj Kapur
Music Director : Pritam Chakraborty
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| Mausam Review |
Mausam starts off significantly fresh, making up for slightly overdone cutesiness with heart and flavour. The setting is enchanting and real, the characters are likable, the supporting cast stays pretty solid throughout, and Shahid revs up the energy while his classically gorgeous heroine Sonam Kapoor does what she does best, skipping around looking breathtaking.
It is when the film changes gear from romcom to melodrama that both Kapur and his son struggle, going from light and likable to irritating and implausible. The couple that initially wins us over gradually emerges harebrained and inexplicably passive. We never root for either girl or boy, because they coyly retreat just when they shouldn't. The passion the film began quickly turns lukewarm, because as Mausam and Shahid begin to take themselves seriously, we stop having fun. And, more importantly, giving a damn.
This is a love story gone awry purely because of undercommunication, and while that seems fine enough on paper, it's rather hard to swallow two lovers cleaved for well over a decade simply because they don't have each other's forwarding address.
This isn't a period film. Cellphones, email, academies and embassies, answering machines all exist. Our leads are well-to-do youths of significant affluence and sophistication, and neither makes standard enquiries? No, because we're supposed to sob over the old-world sight of letters piling up in an unpeopled courtyard.
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