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Both Om Shanti Om and Saawariya set for release this Friday, their respective marketing machineries have crossed over Rs 35 crore each....

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Everything in life is about love: Bhansali

Friday, November 02, 2007

As Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Saawariya hits the screens this Diwali, we caught up with the filmmaker with a 'grand' reputation for a chat on the making of the film, its star debutants and his style of movies.

Q. Khamoshi, Hum Dil…, Devdas, Black and now Saawariya. All your films deal with love and relationships.

A. Whatever we do in life is all because of love - we love our parents, friends. Even when we feel jealous it is somewhere because of love. I try to bring this out through my films be it Black which deals with the relationship between a student and a teacher or Saawariya. You will see the same in my forthcoming films too. Basically, everything in life is about love and love is life.

Q. Why the decision to act with fresh faces?

A. When I finished Black and after the great response I got for it, I wanted to do something new and more challenging. These kids are born stars but the biggest task was to discover the actors in them. Also, being new they gave me their complete time and effort. I could mould them the way I wanted. It was like walking on a sword's edge.

Q. So what do you feel about Ranbir and Sonam?

A. If I can say anything about the two, it is that they are going to be their in the race for a long time because they have a passion for work and are quick learners. They have given their best in Saawariya and I am sure they will make their parents proud.

Q. You are being described as the one-man show behind Saawariya.

A. Nothing like that. It is just that I love to take care of all departments of filmmaking – from the sets to the music and all. I feel a film is not a story of three hours but that of a lifetime. If you miss something, it means a lifetime loss. We worked for two years on the music of the film and over a year-and-a-half on the diction, acting, dancing etc. I'm a perfectionist in the sense that if people don't do their work well I can be rude with them. What matters most is to portray my vision clearly so that 30 years down the line I am not left regretting.

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Bob Chowdhury

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'Saawariya's music caters to body and soul'

Sony Pictures' first Indian co-production 'Saawariya' is a collaboration with one of India's best known and acclaimed directors, Sanjay Leela Bhansali. A worldwide release of the film has been scheduled for Nov. 9. The film's music has been scored by first-time music director, Monty Sharma. Following are excerpts from an interview with Sharma. Interview with first time music director Monty Sharma

Q. You have been working as background composer for quite some time, why did you make your debut as a music composer so late? From a very young age I learnt music from my grandfather Late Shri Ramprasad Sharma. Music has certain steps and only after you learn music can you gradually start composing. After going through all these processes I have finally arrived at this stage. Q. Did you have a definite plan to compose the music for 'Saawariya' or was it a surprise? I never plan anything in life. I had no idea that I would be doing 'Saawariya' until Bhansali offered me the film. My work is my passion. I started with composing the background scores for ''Black' and 'Devdas'. He loved my scores for these films and wanted me to compose songs for 'Bajirao Mastani', but that project did not work out, and so 'Saawariya' became my first film as music director. Q. How did Bhansali offer it to you? A. While I was working on 'Devdas', he said that my music was always there in the back of his mind. After that he offered me offered me 'Black'. There was a song in 'Black' that I had composed, but since that song was not featured in the film and was only available on CD, no one really heard it. The song was- 'Mausam ki Adla Badli'. Q. What is the nature of the chemistry between you and Sanjay Leela Bhansali that clicks every time you are together? He is always looking for perfection and I am very passionate about my music and believe in creating something extraordinary. At the end of the day what comes across is our shared desire for quality which reflects in the music of 'Saawariya'. Working with Sanjay Leela Bhansali means there are no shortcuts - only absolute and complete perfection! The songs of 'Saawariya' are neither purely western nor classical Indian but a fusion of both. The mood is very simple, very passionate. The music is all body and soul - the rhythm is the body, the melody the soul. It's the kind of music that will appeal to all." Q. What can one look forward to in your music in Saawaraiya? 'Saawariya's' music is very simple. It caters to body and soul. The music track contains both pulsating and melodious music. And this is exactly what even Bhansali wanted. Q. How different is it than the others? 'Saawariya' is very original. It is not inspired by any other movie track. The songs are very simple and easy. They are very thoughtfully mixed and crafted to cater to all tastes. Q. Is there anything new that you plan to gift to the audience with 'Saawariya's' music? Definitely! The music of the film is both young and contemporary, but at the same time very melodious giving the audience something it can relate to and that will stay in its mind. I want the audience to carry the tune with them as they leave the theater. I want the music to touch their heart and soul.

(Interview, Courtesy, Sony Pictures)

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Bob Chowdhury

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Ranbir, Bhansali Visit Shirdi
By MovieTalkies.com, 2 November 2007

With Saawariya's release just around the corner, director Sanjay Leela Bhansali and leading actor Ranbir Kapoor have set off to Shirdi to offer prayers and seek the blessings of Sai Baba for the film's success.

Ranbir's father, actor Rishi Kapoor has already done the rounds of gurdwaras and temples to seek blessings for his son's debut venture. Bhansali, a very religious man himself, has also decided to keep his date with Sai Baba. Sonam Kapoor, the other debutante, could not accompany them as she is plagued by a sty in her eye. The black eye already? Anyway, the director and his hero have already sought the blessings of the Baba. Visiting Shirdi or some other religious shrine seems to have become a ritual with the denizens of Bollywood just before the release of their films. Just a while ago, Rani Mukherjee and Pradeep Sarkar's wife are believed to have visited Shirdi just before the release of their film Laaga Chunri Main Daag. Guess with so much at stake every Friday at the box office, it is but natural that our stars and directors turn to the Almighty for blessings

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Bob Chowdhury

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Raaz kibaat

E a-my-nougats.. how goes t? It's Tuesday and all hat, and yeah, so I'11 get right to the point, and then hide under the sheets for a quickie snooze before the rest of the world demands my attention. So, very quickly let me tell you that I have this info from an unimpeachable source. Actually it's neither Nandita Mahtani nor Deepika Padukone who is the apple (APPLE?) of Ranbir Kapoor's eye. Arre forget apples, I mean the love of his life and all that. Yeah, it's been quite a raaz ki baat, but Ranbir is actually fida over SonamKapoor. and has been for a11these months. My source swore that this is true.. and she says, no, no, she isn't spreading this to create publicity for her film Saawariya. She's not the type who sees movies.. oh well, she's a bit silly but I believe her about the Ranbir-Sonam pyaar. Why? Just.

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Originally posted by: *dolly*
Both Om Shanti Om and Saawariya set for release this Friday, their respective marketing machineries have crossed over Rs 35 crore each....

lagta hein dono paani mein doobae gii 😕

35 CROCRE????!!!! 😲😲O...MY...GOD!!!! 😕😲😲

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Faizy khan

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Originally posted by: live_life
aww sonabir luk cuteeee...hehe

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Bob Chowdhury

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Sitting through Saawariya

What follows does not purport to be a review of Saawariya -- the premiere last night, at the Adlabs theatre in Wadala, left me in too enfeebled a condition to attempt such a hazardous task. So what you get are random riffs, a selection of isolated thoughts that occurred while I was watching the film. With that for preamble, here goes: Sanjay Leela Bhansali's latest film, Saawariya, raises the bar of the cinema aesthetic to dizzying heights. Using a predominantly blue palette leavened on rare occasions with greens and magentas, writer-director Bhansali and art directors Omung and Vanita Kumar Bhandula have created a surreal backdrop against which the director, aided by nuanced performances by raw yet surprisingly competent lead stars, uses magic realism, surrealism and other forms that haven't even been invented yet to tell a stirring story of love, hope, longing, loss and redemption...

At some point in the future -- the very distant future, because the evolution of sensibility is a painfully slow process -- a film historian might write in that vein about the latest from the SLB dream factory. What contemporary historians and the paying public, not similarly gifted with 20/20 hindsight, will say is likely unprintable.

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Bob Chowdhury

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Sitting through Saawariya

The world of Saawariya, architecturally speaking, is the misbegotten offspring of a one-night stand between the Gothic and Saracenic styles, when both were vacationing in Venice. Thus, you have winding canals on which ply -- at times with no visible means of propulsion -- sawn-off versions of Venetian gondolas. Lining the canals in neat arrays are homes largely Gothic in shape, with the odd cupola, minaret and such betraying the Saracenic side of its parentage. The polyglot nature of this world is underlined by the neon-lit names adorning the structures: Khaikhomer, Windermere, Capitol, Gulgulshan... It is a well-lit world, with antique street lamps and blazing neon and, despite the incessant rain that pours down at the drop of a clapper-board, bright fires burning in huge barrels at street corners; these have been strategically placed by the far-sighted municipal corporation just in case anyone has any letters to burn.

The latest census indicates that over 50 per cent of the population is prostitutes. There are a few yuppie BPO types who can be found in the town's sole nightclub; a smattering of elderly ladies who are someone's grandmother; and a man who scares the crap out of girls by stalking them down dark alleys or popping out of nowhere to sneeze in their faces. Prostitutes, however, far outnumber these other categories.

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Bob Chowdhury

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Prostitutes are typically an oppressed bunch, eking out a precarious living by turning tricks day and night -- but in Saawariya-land, Utopian conditions prevail. Probably because there are very few men there (and one of those few men is too busy sneezing to be of much use to a girl), they don't have to burden themselves with customers.

Thus, they spend most of their time lolling around in their beds, probably reading short stories written by Fyodor Dostoevsky, and come out into the open air only to play impromptu games of freestyle soccer with the male lead, or to dance at the birthday party of their reigning diva Gulabji, who, if you excavate beneath the shitload of makeup, bears a passing resemblance to Rani Mukerji.

On such occasions, they are dressed entirely in blue - owing, as an upcoming story in The Economist will point out, to a fiscally-savvy madam who figured out buying saris of identical color by the gross is cost-effective. The two latest recruits, by the way, are dressed in green; the madam is reportedly waiting for 22 more girls to join the gang, so she can buy blues for them in one cheap job lot.

Don't for a moment imagine that their life is all jam. Reminders that life is grim and earnest come from the occasional tears, largely prompted by the male lead's idiocies, and the close-up of one call girl's face sporting a perfectly-placed burn mark.

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