You won't be disappointed!

i must have seen a different film!!

How sad is this?

It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

The casting director has done a great job of picking the ideal performing artists for every part whether it is Swara Bhaskara or Ayyub. The cinematography is amazing as it brings alive the temples of Benaras and the dusty backstreets. A R Rahman's heartfelt music adds life to the movie,his deep tracks like Tum Tak ,Tu Mun shudi,Piya Milenge are music to the ears. The dialogues are persuading and make the characters receptive. Anand L Rai's bearing and the storyline holds the watcher to his seat. The first half is fascinating than the second half. With everything taken into account, the movie ought to be seen for Dhanush and Sonam.

Even the idea of deep love was appealing, the movie classically failed to be on a constant logical path after the intermission. The plot progressed not naturally but by forced rationale. It kept me guessing how one scene jumped to another. Everything may be fair in love, but then the director Anand L Rai should have placed a wizard in the story somewhere. The only surprise was the lead- Dhanush. What a marvel he has put into his role! He thoroughly kept me stunned and amazed throughout although not his character. An epic performance by a non Hindi speaking actor in his debut. I would recommend Raanjhanaa to anybody not for the love of god or what else, not for the hype around and about it, not for the storyline but for three things which drapes over the movie's several oddities: One- Dhanush, a star to watch for, a performance to stand for; Two- the music by A R Rahman is another midas touch- pure gold; Three- the last dialog of the movie delivered by Dhanush himself lying on the bed of a mobile hospital, an eulogy to self. At the risk of getting murdered in my sleep by the die-hard fans of a just-in pseudo cult, I can not fathom the thought of giving this any more than 3 out of 5.PS- Of course Abhay Deol can never be rated. He is a vigorous, relentless, unrated, undulated and unadulterated performer. No need to mention that he was amazing as always.

This is one such movie which tries to cash in on your emotions without anything substantial to offer.But in every aspect it is better than mausam a story which just tried to glide through without any emotional moments.I don't think any actor could have made it believable so he deserves appreciation.Sonam was outstanding in the second half which was lot more unpredictable with lot many twists and therefore interesting to watch.But it downplays a serious issue like suicide with the hero slashing his wrists time and again n his friend joking about it.This is not a good message from the film.There was another with president of the party throwing things around while protesting in the office for sonam.This is not the right way i feel to project things even i as a former student from JNU know that we hardly resort to such things protests and reasoning your point of view are more than enough.The movie none the less was refreshing, well made and light hearted romantic to the core and deserves high ratings.

There was a time in 1959 when Satyajit Ray showed us Banaras in the second installment of The Apu Trilogy,Aparajito.That Banaras was black and white and he had only shown us the temples.Back then he won our hearts despite these limitations.But here in 2013 Anand L Rai showed Banaras which is so colorful,apparently it makes you feel that Holi isn't far away.He showed the streets of Banaras so efficiently and enthusiastically which became the first highlight of the movie.Raanjhanaa is a cracker of a movie as it moves until the curse of second half comes into being.If so many movies have been the victim of this curse,why don't the theatre owners dumps the concept of giving intervals then?.These movies names should have been XYZ-good and XYZ-bad for each half.The same concept should also go fro Director's name for the two halves respectively.Raanjhanaa works in most of the parts acting,music and dialogs.The national award winning actor yet again proves that good looks and 8 packs don't make you a good actor,your hard work and talent does.Dhanush's so-simple-yet-elegant performance is pitch perfect for the character Kundan.The simplicity in his accent and his expressions in certain scenes adds a new dimension to the movie.He keeps the movie going but the character of Zoya(Sonam Kapoor) may not get digested by many of the audiences.Sometimes Zoya shows simple,want-to-love,knows her boundaries type of characteristics and sometimes Zoya is trying to be over smart,want everyone's attention on her.As you have read you certainly get to know that these characteristics cannot belong to the same character.People will get confused about what actually Zoya wants.Nevertheless Sonam has done a good job whatever she was given to do.Abhay Deol is good in his extended cameo and Zeeshan Ayyub is wonderful in his presence and exemplary with his one-liners.The dialogs by Himanshu Sharma is another highlight of the movie.There was a time when everyone said after A R Rahman's Jab tak Hai Jaan,which to me wasn't that bad, that the music maestro has lost his touch.Here A R Rahman adds emotions to the movies characters and creates the world of love very efficiently.If it weren't for his music Raanjhanaa wouldn't have been half of what it is.Javed Ali is so classical in Tum Tak ,Shreya Ghoshal providing soul to Banarasiya, Raanjhanaa(title track) is very lovable and Tu Mun Shudi is really appealing.Overall the music is really soothing. Kudos to the maestro for his hard work.If some more work had been done on the second half's script or adding some element to those politics portions in the script Raanjhanaa would have been a great movie.It just makes you feel dull whereas in the first half it is so much fun.Watch it for Dhanush,A R Rahman's Music,Dialogues and lastly Banaras.