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Movie::Review "Welcome to Sajjanpur" (Hindi)

Movie: Welcome to Sajjanpur

Director: Shyam Benegal

Cast Shreyas Talpade, Amrita Rao, Ravi Kishan, Ila Arun, Divya Dutta, Yashpal Sharma, Rajeshwari Sachdev, Ravi Jhankal

Feel good factors: Amrita Rao is beautiful and looks so natural village girl. Shreyas Talpade is very lively and lives the character. He is not the perfect Hero you will find in other movies but an average guy next door with some grey shades. The human nature of our hero is beautifully depicted and it can’t get any better. The song and music is simple and hum able and jokes and wit very natural. Ila Arun rocks!

Story telling: It starts as narration but later it is the view presented through the eyes of Madhav-the central character and in the end you realise you were actually reading a book written by Madhav. The story is made up of small plots revolving around Madhav but this never obstructs the flow of story telling. In the end you know there was no story at all, but can’t the list of things happening in one’s life form a story?

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Intro:A good homely food at your native place if you are staying away from home, eating in the canteens, hotels and Restaurants-all the junk food. If you have got used to the junk food it will take some time to start loving again the wonderful food your mom makes. It is natural. You live in AC and with all the top class amenities in the city and when you go home you feel irritated when the fan goes off as a part of load shedding. You take time to get accustomed to the good old surroundings that you loved and missed. But whatever it is you will love it.

The Story: It is a satire representation of India’s current state of affairs. But when you are watching it you will not even notice it is such a highly serious movie. But rather you will be laughing and enjoying the small small moments told and made so beautifully that you will never know when the time passed by. Coming back home if you recollect the movie, and think harder you will realize how high intellectual level the movie talks about. Right from illiteracy and superstition, Commercialization and SEZs, Animal right activists and widow re-marriage, to dirty politics and the tough life of a common Indian. In all a wonderful movie by Shyam Benegal and his team. I would say ‘his team’ as the casting has been near perfect. Each actor lives the character. Madhav (Shreyas Talpade) and Kamala (Amrita Rao) are front leads and they carry the big movie forward and they do it beautifully.

Movie Negatives: How hard you make how best you make, some idiot like me will surely come up with a negative and mistakes and in this movie too I found one. The seat in the train in which Kamala (Amrita Rao) travels is "Reserved for disabled". Some may also point out the watch Madhav (Shreyas Talpade) wears is always showing a time of 5:30. But I would say it is the style quotient in village to wear a watch whether working or not-it doesn't matter.

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Worth A Watch :Movie lovers who enjoy watching it on a big screen-buy the balcony ticket.Don't be shy!
Must Watch:Above + don't mind that you got the ticket in black-Just go for it!
Worth a Treasure:Above + buy that VCD.Don't be shy!
Must Treasure:Above + buy that high quality DVD.These are the movies you love watching it again,any year,any month,any week,any day or any time.They are the classics.
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