“Mausam” arrives with high expectations. Pankaj Kapur is considered a master when it comes to acting with his performances in films like Maqbool and Rakh and when he dons the director’s cap, great things are forecast. The apparent chemistry between the two leads in the trailers and the songs raise the anticipation level even further.
Many complained of the film’s length, while others thought it was overly complicated. They may have a point: Over the course of two and a half hours, the film takes the audience through some of the most troubled times in Indian history: the Babri Masjid demolition, Mumbai bomb blasts, the Kargil war and Gujarat riots. All serve as backdrops for the lovers to separate and unite.
Here’s a round-up of what some critics had to say for the film:
NDTV’s Saibal Chatterjee gave the film three out of five stars and called it an “ambitious film that seeks to blend the conventions of mass-oriented Mumbai entertainers with the style and substance of a more intimate and meaningful mode of storytelling.”
While Mr. Chatterjee complained of the film’s length and its tendency to “meander rather listlessly in parts,” he wrote that the film is “enlivened by fine performances” by the lead actors and he also appreciated the luminous camerawork of cinematographer Binod Pradhan.
Finally all the troubles brewing over Pankaj Kapoor’s directional debut, ‘Mausam’ was over and the film saw a grand premiere where Bollywood’s who’s who was present. Celebs that walked the red carpet premiere were Hrithik Roshan and his wife Suzanne. Rani Mukherjee, Bipasha Basu and Ritiesh Deshmukh, Sonakshi Sinha, Rakesh Mehra also attended the premiere. Genelia D'souza came straight from Ahmedabad.
The male protagonist Shahid Kapoor looked extremely excited and Sonam Kapoor looked graceful. They welcomed the guests along with Pankaj Kapoor and Supriya Pathak.
He does recommend the film for the way it has been put together. “Writer-director Kapur, the accomplished actor that he is, orchestrates the emotional ups and downs of his tale with a commendable degree of moderation for the most part. ‘Mausam’ is certainly worth a viewing,” he wrote.
Film critic Nikhat Kazmi in English daily The Times of India wrote that the film begins on the beautiful note of an old-fashioned romance with a charming lead pair filmed in scenic locales.
For her, the movie worked in parts and she liked the first half where the vintage love story “proceeds through unsaid words, unexpressed feelings, stolen glances and lots of melody.” But once the protagonists part ways, she thought the director lost his grip.
“Too many comings and goings, meetings and separations, missed calls and opportunities, spurred on by the cataclysmic political events of the nation, tire you with their repetition,” Ms. Kazmi noted.
Ms. Kazmi added that the climax of the film, with the lovers trapped in the burning streets of Gujarat, was “too bizarre, too unnecessary, bordering on the ludicrous.”
But she appreciated the balance that the film strikes between art house and mainstream cinema and nonetheless recommended the film saying, “Don’t be dissuaded however, for ‘Mausam’ has lots to offer to the viewer who doesn’t mind his cinema languorous, laid back and moody, with loads of beauty.”
In the magazine India Today, film critic Kaveree Bamzai, wrote that the film’s slow pace and length tires viewers. “Every scene is beautifully shot, the romance is meant to grow on you with its artful glances and coy exchanges. But instead of a slow burn, it’s just plain exhaustion.”
She added that the director aims for an old-fashioned romance and “he pours his heart and mind into it, tying it up in a neat little bow into a message for ‘insaniyat’ [humanity] in the time of brutality, but I wish his lovers had been more ardent.” She complained that it defies logic that in the age of email and cellphones, the lovers rely on their neighbors.
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