Mausam Movie Review

Director : Music : Lyrics : Starring :  Pankaj Kapoor  Pritam  Irshad Kamil  Shahid Kapoor, Sonam Kapoor, Anupam Kher, Adam Smith, Callum Fuller, Herry Tangri, Janine Ballantyne, Joseph Andrew Mclean, Ken Matthews, Supriya Pathak

Creativity sometimes borders on insanity. In the sense, that when an artist ventures to paint his canvass he has to know when to stop. That's what you call brilliance in a genius. If an artist continues to go beyond that moment when he has failed to establish that his art is complete and he has done enough, is when he moves into self-indulgent zone. A dangerous place to be in. A creative person has to stop, step back, disconnect himself from his work and look at it dispassionately. It's one thing to fall in love with your work; another to keep caressing it over and over again. This is exactly what first-time director and award winning actor Pankaj Kapoor has done. He has committed the cardinal sin of not knowing when to stop. Also, I feel, he has tried to mix in too many turbulent elements of the past, intersperse them and in the process has ended up burning his fingers. Kapoor has linked events of Operation Blue Star, trouble in the Kashmir Valley, Ayodhya and the bringing down of the Babri Masjid, Bombay Bomb Blasts, Twin Tower strike in New York and Godhra in Ahmedabad. Through these events he links a love story that stands the test of time. Both central characters Sq. Leader Harrinder Singh, aka Harry (Shahid Kapoor) and Aayat (Sonam Kapoor) have scarred pasts. While Harry's past is linked to Blue Star, Aayat has nightmares of Kashmir. Both meet in Mullakot, a sleepy village in Punjab where Harry is the most popular boy. He has a silent admirer in Rajjo, his padosan played by Aditi Sharma. That girl is fida over Harry, but Harry will only settle for a special someone. When Aayat comes to stay in his village, his heart goes dhak dhak. .