Tamasha

     "Voi Kahani Fir ek baar, Majnu ne diye Kapde phaad....maar Tamasha beech bazaar" and with the tag line of  - why the same old story every time? - Tamasha's trailer hooked me instantly.

     Being a Ranbir Kapoor's super fan and the guy who adores Imtiaz Ali's films like my ideal Romantic Genre films, the colourful trailer was a confirmation that there isn't going to be any disappointment.

And there ISN'T.

     Tamasha is a journey on which we all should go at some point of our lives. Be an 'Interpol officer' and 'Don' the 'Cap' of the 'evergreen superstar' and star in the story where you go to find yourself within You.

     Tamasha is a film that is shown in two lenses and two tracks - one linear and one non-linear. All four of them going simultaneously hand in hand. It starts with a Tamasha (drama/play) having a Mediocre (this is the word which has more footage than Ranbir-Deepika together in this film, and thus I have to mention this word.), boring and Robotic life of a common man. Which is our first linear track taking us back to the flashbacks which is our second and non-linear track. In that flashback we have a girl (who the guy meets bohot kos door, dil aur duniya ke beech), Tara (Deepika Padukone), who is our first lens of the film. The film starts from the lens of Tara and how the guy who has come in her life enchants her mind completely in seven days with a promise of never meeting again. 4 years later, after taking along his thoughts all the time with her, when Tara meets that Guy, she learns that he is Vaid (Ranbir Kapoor) and lives a very different life than what she carried along with herself about him. And then comes up the question for Vaid that Which one of him is the true him. The one who met Tara 4 years back or the One who he is right now. With this, the film shifts to the 2nd lens from Vaid's perspective and continues itself to the climax.

     Ranbir and Deepika both look stunning and have beyond imagination chemistry. Both stay in your mind individually. Ranbir is the finest actor and Deepika can pull off anything with the deep sincerity and conviction.

     Ravi Varman's camera seems disoriented in the beginning coz of certain inconsistency in the clarity of the story. But that's just in the beginning until the characters know each other. Once that happens the camera work grows with the age of our characters. Well planned shots and well edited sequences by Aarti Bajaj gives this film something to look up to.

     Production Design by Snigdha Basu, Sumit Basu, Rajnish Hedao, and Art by Arnaud Putman is one of the best things of this film. Amazing Locations, very good decorations and uncompromising use of sets and properties to make everything authentic yet polished, has stolen the show of rest of the departments except Music.

     A.R. Rahman once again has scored a great great score and has made feel of the film magical. You have to watch the film to have the 100% impact of the music. The film is incomplete without its Music and the Music is a little short of something without the film.

     Finally Imtiaz Ali.... Imtiaz has given us another piece of art. Another reason to be what you really are. His visualisation and his ease in his films make us connect more. Though his films are always giving us the false hopes of meeting someone like Deepika, Kareena, Nargis or Alia,  on a trip or something, or someone like Ranbir, Shahid or Randeep  helping you to make a call for yourself when you are in deep shit, even though this is the case, it does caters to your alter ego where you want something like this to happen.

     He is just like me. Whatever he feels like doing in his own life, he makes his character do it for him. He lives the life through their eyes and makes every one of his viewers get in their skin for those few minutes of the film's run time.

     Yet another escapist story, where the escapism turns into a very soft rebel of being someone you always were and doing what you want to do to have a perfect ending for the story of your life.

     The last part after titles where Deepika and Ranbir are dancing listening songs in their respective headphones is the cherry on the cake, which suggests that though they both lead a life together they have an individuality of their own and they both are still in the character who they enjoy being.

Verdict - 8.5/10