Tamasha - story telling gone awry

Tamasha is a movie, which has two very good actors as the lead players and a successful director of Jab we met, Love aaj kal, Rockstar & Highway holding the megaphone. Problem is with the story telling. When a director confuses his audience, the best of stories and movies do not deliver, we once again have a situation where the narrative was not suitably handled.

Maybe it is necessary to give an introduction to these kind of movies along with the tickets, so that the movie goer is following the narrative. When audience goes to the movie and start watching it, they wonder where they are and what is happening on the screen. Once this happens the concentration is more on the pop corn or the mobile phone and lo here goes the rating of the movie.

Tamasha is a very good story about human emotions and hidden personalities, screenplay is where things have gone wrong. Idea of presenting all stories are the same and situations are different and clubbing them together, gets the audience further confused and probably mad. Saw lots of girls coming to see their beau Ranbir, for them their hero acting a robo, would be a disappointment. When you start loosing your audience like this, after the first weekend, your theaters owners /distributors will be sad and crowds not just happening. Imtiaz Ali has bungled here and movie hit the depths.

Ranbir Kapoor played a good role with ease, his acting talent showed up well particularly in the

 scenes where his inner personality is struggling to come out and he trying to plug it in. His imitation of yester-year stars, was carried out well. How he handles the family situation by telling a story, went of well, problem was by then audience interest was lost.

Deepika Padukone, did an excellent job, her emotions captured well, when she knows her lover is struggling with in a real life role, where he simply does not fit in and had to tell him the same and get shouted back by him.

Rest of the star cast is more incidental, individual performances worth mentioning is Vivek Mushran, who acts as the boss of Ved Sahni the troubled executive.

Music and songs were very situational and sounded different, 'Heer to Badi sad ho' was catchy, Rest are passable. Music by AR Rahman, couldnt save the movie.

Though the movie has not done well commercially, the lead players deserve to be nominated  for their acting performance.

Story in short: There is a kid in Shimla, who is very keen on listening to a story teller who charges by the hour, his inspiration from these stories makes him a dreamer and is forced to study Engineering against is interest. He takes up a job as an executive in a Telecom company. During a holiday abroad, he meets the heroine, who wanted to see the place from her favorite comic and looses her baggage and money. They spend a week without wanting to know each others identity and part ways painfully. On returning to Kolkata the heroine becomes desolate and decides to search for the missing man at Delhi after saying bye to him 3 years back. What happens thereafter and how she makes him pursue his dreams is the story.

A movie which is worth giving 4.5 Stars for its story and acting ends up with 2.5 stars purely on bad story telling.

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