Saiyaara Review: No One Does Heartbreak Like Mohit SuriSaiyaara Review: The tale is as ancient. Bad boy and good girl meet, there are sparks, and then, of course, there’s heartbreak, sacrifice, and reunionRadhika Sharma
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Saiyaara hit the theaters on July 18
Music is a time capsule, it transports you to your childhood, your first love, or reminds you of how that petrichor tastes when you smell it. Music can heal, and if not completely, it is an analgesic. Mohit Suri’s musical and emotional drama Saiyaara is perhaps the panacea for the Hindi film and exhibition sectors’ ailments.
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Saiyaara is also an appeal on behalf of film music that we should not allow it to perish. It is an appeal to the audience to remember “dimaag bhool sakta hai, dil nahin“. A dialogue sung by one of the protagonists at a crucial point of the film.
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Saiyaara Box Office Fury Demonstrates There Is No Outdoing An Incredible Love Story. Who Cares If It’s Copied. A nice tune that will last is the echo of a moment of memory. Saiyaara’s rhythm might be borrowed, but there’s a certain freshness about its treatment.
Its music, composed of tracks like Saiyaara, Barbaad, and Tum Ho Toh, is both head-bangy as well as hummable. If it takes nearly the entire music industry (seven composers and four lyricists in credits) to create a complete and modern music album, then it must be made a requirement.
In a word, newbies Ahaan Panday and Aneet Padda are (unexpectedly) fine. There is potential and the spark in the belly to show their mettle — that they can be a part of a big screen, in a classical Hindi musical, supported by one of the top-of-the-line banners of India, Yash Raj Films.
The Plot
The tale is as ancient as time. Bad boy falls for good girl, sparks fly, and then heartbreak, sacrifice, and reunion ensue. And, no one does heartbreak quite like Mohit Suri. This heartbreak finds solace in rock, emo and grunge music, and this is not a complaint.
Had this been a Bhatt camp movie, where Mohit Suri has his family and career genesis, Saiyaara would have certainly been blessed with a death or two murders. Being a Yash Raj movie, however, there is a silver lining to this dark cloud.
Aneet (Big Girls Don’t Lie) is Vaani Batra, a sweet, 22-year-old who journals in her “dear diary” so she won’t forget. When her fiance stands her up at the altar, her heart is left broken, she goes into a black hole and loses her voice (literally) because she ceases to write.
A few months later, Vaani meets a brooding, smoke-wielding, tattooed underdog singer named Krish Kapoor who beats up a reviewer (shudders) for stealing all the credit of his band Josh and submitting on a platter to a bade-baap-ki-aulaad, his band-mate.
In a tongue-in-cheek hat-tip to the nepotism baby bias, Krish tells the reviewer, “Nepo baby haggenge bhi toh bhi bologe kya haga hai!” No reminder required but Ahaan Panday is actor Chunky Panday’s nephew and actor Ananya Panday’s cousin and the family must be proud.
Upon Krish losing his band Josh and hosh, he meets Vaani and they write music and lyrics (and the title of a Drew Barrymore film) together. As this is a spoiler-free review, there is another, bigger Drew Barrymore tie-up of Saiyaara that the viewer has to watch out for while viewing the movie. With the inimitable Mohit Suri touch of emotions and music, Saiyaara turns out to be a love song with believable performances, much like the director’s Zeher, Kalyug, and Aashiqui 2 days.
Special mention for Geeta Agrawal Sharma. Who has acted in various mother roles in the past few years. In Hindi films like Laapataa Ladies, 12th Fail, and All Indian Rank Geeta Agrawal Sharma acted as a role of mother. The actor plays Vaani’s overprotective, borderline obsessive mom who has been awarded some of the better lines of the movie. She is a class act when she leaves one-liners like “Mat baha ye keemti aansoo kisi ullu le patthe ke liye” or “Meri beti time pass nahin hai”.
When the trailer of Saiyaara released, some social media users were quick to compare the movie with Mohit Suri’s Aashiqui 2.
Saiyaara’s line “Kuch pal baaqi hain mere paas” callback is reminiscent of the ring of Aashiqui 2’s “Suno. Kya? Kuch nahin bas yun hee” to it. One could very well say that it has the potential of becoming viral on social media, particularly among the 20-somethings.
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Krish and Vaani both have problems, obviously.
Krish, a parent to his drunkard, fighting dad (Varun Badola), seeks external approval from his prospective fans until he meets Vaani, who loves him the way he is. This is an age-old hero who openly requests assistance from the heroine when he really needs it. Throughout the movie. Just as the DP on his smartphone changes, so also do his priorities in life — from himself to Vaani.
Where Vaani is concerned, the greatest victory is that she works and she’s bloody brilliant at it. When she discovers Krish has put his career on the backburner for her. She tells him not to do so and advises him to pursue his ambitions. Her ex, a lecherous opportunist, keeps reappearing in the second half of the movie. Basically serves as a trigger to all that may and does go awry for Vaani.
When Krish’s father matures finally, the elder Kapoor instructs the younger Kapoor to not make the same mistake. “Don’t ruin yourself in the name of love,” he advises.
If we travel by Saiyaara, we can have both the best of two worlds.
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