Yuvvraaj has more to ‘show’ than to ‘communicate’. So much is lost in ‘showing’ that the motto of the film was spoken out in front of the camera - “Independent you live, united you stand”.
Yuvvraaj is a decent film but not in time. The continuity jump, the shift of locations and the cliché Hindi subtitles makes the films loose to wander around. It is an opportunity lost to capture the essence of A R. Rahman’s brilliantly crafted music. The heavy on-screen a presentation of the songs fails to bring out the required emotions and feelings. All kind of musical instruments with various properties likes masks, feathers, animals, and dozens of extras makes it fully crammed.
Deven (Salman Khan) is in love with Anushka (Katrina Kaif) but cannot marry her cause her father (Boman Irani) finds him good for nothing. Cut. Deven’s father dies leaving huge property to the elder sons Gyanesh (Anil Kapoor) - a mentally retarded (debatable) but musically brilliant child. So the rest two brothers (Deven + Danny – Zayed Khan) teams up as partners to fight for their rights. As for Deven the soul motive is to gain Anushka by improving his status. Thus Yuvvraaj essentially becomes a tale of three brothers, who discover their love after hating each other for years. And yes every thing happens around music. Ya it seems so.
Salman Khan has a dual responsibility to play an unpredictable lover and an unaided
Brother and performs well enough to the part written. Anil Kapoor is not given much space to grow and Zayed Khan plays spoiled brat with ease though he has nothing much to do in the film. Katrina-Salman chemistry does have some fine moments and even Boman Irani handles his side fairly well.
Yuvvraaj is loosely written screenplay with no powerful scene to bring out the relationship bonding. The first half of the film is much waste. It did stiff up in the second half but end ups with an old-fashioned finish. The script fails to maintain the passion and ambition developed at some point in the movie. The Moulin Rouge set and European landscapes are good one time watch. The highlight is the music which sadly can be enjoyed on an mp3 player.
It seems through Yuvvraaj, Subhash Ghai made a literal translation of his image as a ‘Showman’. Watch it if you have to.
Movie Sucked big time. I was going for some time pass (since I had to show my sister the ebony lounge at adlabs) but I was not even time pass. I would give 0.5/5 star.
ReplyDelete- Subhash Ghai = How can you do this?
- A.R.Rahman = Great background score. But still not at your best.
- Gulzar = What have you done with lyrics?
- Salman = You were crap as expected.
- Katrina = You were on display as usual.
- Zayed = God damn it(scream)... that all you can do
- Anil Kapoor = Below avg. Can done better that this. He is wasted...thank to Mr. Ghai
- Editing = Sucks..no continuity in the frames
- Background Art / Sets = Excellent, that worth a watch..as ANAND said.
- Location = Excellent, I better get back to work if I want to spend one vaction there.