Skip it if you can, and watch it if you cannot skip it.  I watched it because it was playing 200 meters away from my home, and being single I didn’t have much to do on a Sunday night.

If I grade satisfaction/happiness that one gets by seeing a movie on a ten-point scale, I expected a six but got only a four. Loss of two points. I am sure I will not do worse with Sawanriya (expected is a zero, I am sure I will get about a negative two).  This movie  should go down as the most incorrectly hyped movie of the year 2007 (or that was Ramu's Aag), but on a second thought I guess hyping a movie is ok, it is like marketing a product, which has almost nothing to do with the product.

So what is this movie all about? Farah Khan is like so many other hard working and talented people, who always dream of making movie, but due to spontaneous unfolding of the universe, they ended up doing something else. She became a choreographer, a big time choreographer (Bombay Dreams on the Broadway).  Once she collected lot of money, she decided to spend it on her dream i.e.  to make movies. This movie (her second attempt, first you don’t even want to know) is a random sketch of her fantasy.  She surely had been very clever in making her point through dialogs in the movie that even though this story does not make sense, you should watch it because you watch so many other things like one hero fighting ten goondas. What she misses here is that scenes like a hero fighting ten goondas is a dramatic exaggeration of confrontation between hero and goondas, while her reincarnation stuff (which is anyway totally flicked from an old classic) is not even something that dreams are made of.

So, yes the story is not original, it has strong inspiration from classical movie Karz (even filming of some important scenes of OmShO will remind you of this movie).  Even though Farah Khan had done her best to shout over the rooftops to deny this, which was expected, we all know the truth now.  This movie is a time pass, though Deepika Padukone is wasted in her debut movie.  Hum to bas yahi sochte rah gaye… ki ye kaisi picture banayi hai, mere dost!