Prem Ratan Dhan Payo - Movie Review

Prem is back… Truly Prem is back and Only Prem is back…

Things those are good in the movie –

• Amazing picturisation of songs. Halo Re, Prem Leela  are my favourite among the other beautiful ones. The choreography suits the songs best. And all the background dancers dance so well to bring out the best in the songs.
• Gorgeous and truly breath-taking sets. Jalte Diye, Prem Leela, Bachpan Kahan are the ones with eye catching backgrounds. The best sets… and light effects are simply awesome. And the ‘Sheesh Mahal’ is just felt like a wonder of the world. So beautiful sets.
• Fantastic camera work. Be it Halo Re, Jalte Diye, Prem Leela, Tod Tadaiya, Aaj Unse Milna Hai, or Bachpan Kahan – the camera work really is done very well. 
• Soul-touching music and ornamental lyrics, something that touches the core of a person. Amazing music by Himesh Reshamiya and some of the ‘jhakash’ voice of the new singers.
• Salman Khan, Deepak Dobriyal and Swara Bhaskar’s acting.
• The action sequence was good. Sword fighting was powerful and nicely worked out.

Things that went bad in the movie –

• Every scene of the movie was so deliberately told as if it’s being told to a small kid. It’s not a kids movie but family movie and Kids are more smarter than adults these days.
• The movie’s focus was more on Prem rather than the family or family value.
• All other actors other than Salman, Deepak, Swara and <the security chief person>, lawyer.  
• The story line was very slow and boring. The dialogue delivery by actors were way too slow and artificial. Many were seen doing over-acting. No role of villain in the movie. It felt as if he was put there to justify the sibling rivalry. There were hardly any dialogues for Armaan Kohli, yet he delivered it pathetically. The anger, frustration and pain were so artificial in Neel Nitin’s acting. Even Anupam Kher’s expressions felt un-natural.  
• The most disappointing acting was done by the leading lady Sonam Kapoor,  Neel Nitin Mukesh and Armaan Kohli.
• There was no family in the movie in the movie. 
• The climax of the movie is unnecessarily stretched. The worst mistake of this movie I felt is shooting the climax at the beginning and then since it’s already shot they ending scenes didn’t fit-in properly and were dragged. Climax should have been a ‘Bang-on’ climax. The climax takes away all the fun moments of the second part of movie and is totally disappointing.
• Very bad graphics work. From the top view of the palace it looks like it’s on the edge of the waterfall, and from the front angle it looks like the terrace is just at 15 feet height from the water level. 
• There are few other actors in the movie who have done their role with passion. Yet Anupam sir disappointed me. Also, every time I saw Armaan, I was remembering how powerfully Mohnish Bahl used to deliver his dialogues and his body language was truly villainous and negative.

What could have worked if changed?

• Just as the brother wondered that this person could not be his elder brother, the audience should have also wondered - who is the person who came the palace? The focus was more on the entry scene of Prem. The song could have been placed a bit afterwards. It felt like the song was picturised first and then they could not fit it in properly, since the character Vijay is also played by Salman Khan himself. So, the suspense factor was lost in the deliberately told scenes that Vijay had an accident and they accidentally got Prem. They should have kept that fact hidden and later on revealed that Vijay is still alive. 
• Most of the scenes felt as if they were made just to fit in the songs. So, the screen play was a head ache actually. The flow of the movie could have been directed better. And story should have covered most of the stories rather than having so many songs.
• The worst mistake of the movie, or rather I should say the director is, Sooraj ji chose Sonam Kapoor, Neel Nitin Mukesh and Armaan Kohli. The worst actors of the movie. Their dialogue delivery was as if they are novice in acting and are practicing those lines. The expressions were so made up expressions. 
• Sonam – her acting is pathetic. She only knows how to show her beautiful teeth. There was no sensuality in her expression in Jalte Diye song, the running scene in Prem Ratan Dhan Payo title song had the most unnatural and ridiculous smile – she doesn’t know what ‘Sharmaanaa’ is about and thus the ‘sharm and haya’ part was totally missing in her expressions and was so unnatural in “jab tum chaho” end scene and all other songs. A good actress is one who speaks more with her eyes than her words and thus she is pathetic actress in that sense.  All she has a beautiful smile, that’s it. So, the director shouldn’t have so adamant about having only Sonam as his lead actress, when there are more talented actresses who know what grace is and how to use those in the romantic scenes.
• Neel Nitin Mukesh’s worst performance is in this movie. Never expected that he would be so bad in acting. He should have been directed properly. I would rather blame the director for accepting such poor performances from these actors.
• Armaan Kohli – why was he taken? The worst actor of the movie. I wonder why was he taken. If it was to give his acting career another chance, then Sooraj sir should have given him a chance in some other movie. Anyway, his role was also not much, so I doubt if anyone else would have wanted to do the role. 

• There was no sad song in the movie when there were several places when one could have been used. A movie that doesn’t explore on the pain side of life will never be a movie to stay in audience’s mind. 

With all the glitches, the best thing in the movie is Salman Khan, who has done absolutely fantastic job in living 2 totally different characters. As Vijay he is very strict and upset, angry and sad, defeated but powerful, alone yet royal. He plays that role perfect. As Prem he is very charming and nice, funny and lovable, understanding and adorable, lovable and ‘perfect man’. As Prem he truly has stolen everyone’s heart again. Prem is back and truly he is back. It was wonderful watching him as Prem once again.

Deepak Dobriyal as in his other movies has done superb job of being in the character he is playing at the moment. Partner of Hero, be it actress or his side-kick , is always very important in making the Hero’s work memorable and Deepak has done just that. His acting is memorable just as Salman’s. Sonam on the other hand is an insult actually. Every time I watched her performance I wondered, if not any other actress, Sooraj sir could have taken Madhuri Dixit, she even at this age would have done way better acting than any actor of this generation. And I would have loved see Salman-Madhuri’s chemistry. Salman was right about hesitating to work with Sonam. He may have given the personal reason of being 19 years elder to Sonam, yet he knows better about who can do what and what will work.

One funny thing I noticed, not sure if you did too... There was Harshali's photo on the table, in the scene when Vijay comes to meet his sisters at their place.

I honestly missed the old team of Sooraj Barjatya’s movies, though many are no more with us, yet I feel it was always those professional actors who made Sooraj jis work memorable forever in our minds.

I would surely watch Prem Ratan Dhan Payo movie, but only and only for Salman Khan, for his acting is as he says ‘another level only together’ now a days. I would skip the sections I do not like and watch only him for he is the Best part of the movie.

About the family values that Soorj ji talks about in his movies, I liked the way the same situation with sisters is handled differently by Vijay and Prem. Lesson to learn from the 'family' story of the movie is, it's the way one deals with problems and situations, that decides whether it's going to be resolved or not.

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