First and foremost Prem Ratan Dhan Payo, a feast for the senses. It is so well-mounted and shot with such a keen affection of aesthetic propriety that we are hooked from the word go.
Sooraj Bajartya’s new collaboration with Salman Khan is a dazzling homage to Shining India. Age-old sanskriti and sanskaar meets new-age values and technology. The clash is not so profound as it is pulsating and provocative.
Significantly there are two Salman Khans, signifying the dual personality in conflict in modern India. Visually, the film scores a greater grandeur than any of Sooraj’s earliers films. Full credit goes to cinmetographer V Manikandan and art director Nitin Chandrakant Desai for creating a world laden with opulence and yet connected to a culture that every Indian can identify with. In this way Barjatya offers us the best both the worlds.
Prem Ratan Dhan Payo is a fable on...
Sooraj Bajartya’s new collaboration with Salman Khan is a dazzling homage to Shining India. Age-old sanskriti and sanskaar meets new-age values and technology. The clash is not so profound as it is pulsating and provocative.
Significantly there are two Salman Khans, signifying the dual personality in conflict in modern India. Visually, the film scores a greater grandeur than any of Sooraj’s earliers films. Full credit goes to cinmetographer V Manikandan and art director Nitin Chandrakant Desai for creating a world laden with opulence and yet connected to a culture that every Indian can identify with. In this way Barjatya offers us the best both the worlds.
Prem Ratan Dhan Payo is a fable on...
- 11/15/2015
- by Subhash K Jha
- Bollyspice
It can now be told. Sooraj Barjatya's eagerly anticipated Diwali bonanza Prem Ratan Dhan Payo is actually a variation on Mark Twain's The Prince & The Pauper where two lookalike heroes, a commoner and a royalty, exchange places to see what the other one's life feels like. The two roles are played by Salman Khan. Revealing this and further information, a source close to the project says, "More than Mark Twain's novel The Prince & The Pauper, Sooraj Barjatyaji is a fan of the 1968 film Raja Aur Runk which was based on the same classic novel. The film is also inspired by the Dharmendra starrer Yakeen and the Shashi Kapoor starrer Haseena Maan Jayegi where the leading lady's beloved is replaced by his double. That explains Salman's look of discomfort and guilt as Sonam Kapoor dances all around him in the song 'Jalte diye'." Raja Aur Runk was produced...
- 11/3/2015
- by Subhash K. Jha
- BollywoodHungama
He broke all the rules of stardom and yet was a star, a romantic hero and an all-rounder par excellence. 47 was no age for one of Hindi cinema's brightest talents to go, but on November 6, 1985, Sanjeev Kumar passed away, leaving fans, friends and the Hindi film shell-shocked. Gulzar remembers Sanjeev Kumar "For me, he was the complete actor. I have always said that I had two anchors - one was Sanjeev Kumar, and the other was R.D.Burman. What most people do not know is that I knew Haribhai (as I called him) from the late 1950s. We were both with the Indian National Theatre where I would write for the plays and he was a stage actor. Sanjeev was a student of P.D.Shenoy, who was also teaching at the Filmalaya School of Acting and later turned film director. Sanjeev was just over 20 years old, and he was playing a father!
- 11/4/2010
- by Rajiv Vijayakar (Screen Weekly)
- BollywoodHungama
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