NDTV/Saibal Chatterjee: 3 stars
Daily News and Analysis: 1 star
Spice Zee : 2 stars
Rediff : 2.5 stars
India.com/Mihir Fad : 2 stars
Glam Sham : 1.5 stars
Avg: 1.9 (13.5)
Practically every new-age filmmaker wants to attempt a real story on celluloid. Stories which are straight out of life. These stories generally strike a chord with the audience if narrated convincingly and, most importantly, narrated within commercial parameters.
Nagesh Kukunoor has been a frontrunner as far as choosing and narrating real stories are concerned. Aashayein, too, seems like 'our' story. Here's a man who suddenly discovers that he has a few months to live. The indomitable spirit of living life to the fullest, under all circumstances, is what you expect from him.
Aashayein is a story of a compulsive gambler who discovers new meanings of fortune and life through a dramatic turn of events.
ReplyDeleteAashayein is the story of Rahul Singh, how he goes from living an insignificant life to
really living it. It is the story of Rahul’s journey from darkness to the light.
Aashayein is an inspiring, bittersweet fable that reminds the viewer that life is short and to make the best of it. Aashayein is, just as the title suggests a film which focuses on hopes. It teaches us to live life today and not tomorrow. The philosophy of the film, if truly followed, is liberating.
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Man, I love this girl Sonal Sehgal.... and like for so long, since her TV days....
ReplyDeleteMelodramas about terminally ill protagonists must inevitably hark back to Hrishikesh Mukherjee. Nagesh Kukunoor’s long-in-the-cans Aashayein does just that. The film has a scene in which the hero watches Anand in the company of a cancer patient in a hospice.
ReplyDeleteBut there is one palpable difference. In the 1971 Rajesh Khanna starrer, the protagonist teaches the world around him a thing or two about life and its many wonders before his premature death.
Rating:3/5
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DNA: Aashayein is a hopeless movie
ReplyDeleteAashayein begins with a promising track shot taking the audience from an old house to a den of bookies in an old and dilapidated courtyard. The opening shot is so fantastic that it raises your asha, that falls flat soon after.
The story of a compulsive gambler (we hardly see the obsession with gambling), Aashayein is a confused hotchpotch of many messages, none hard enough to move you.
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Spice Zee: 2 stars
ReplyDeleteAfter charming his fans with his Greek God looks and toned muscular body, John Abraham undergoes an image makeover for Nagesh Kukunoor’s ‘Aashayein’.
Instead of making typical Bollywood potboilers, Bollywood filmmakers these days are focusing more on real life stories that strike a chord with the audiences. These films are not only probable, but far more acceptable than the three hour fantasy dished out in the name of commercial cinema.
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Looks like Nagesh missed the boat on this one...
ReplyDeleteBut he is being little off color recently
Rediff: 2.5 stars
ReplyDeleteAseem Chhabra reviews Aashayein. Nagesh Kukunoor's two-year old film Aashayein opens with a fantastic tracking shot -- as the camera smoothly steps inside an old house and from there into a dilapidated, but busy courtyard.
It moves fast as we see many television monitors showing cricket matches and people huddled around the screens. The camera finally rests on one face, just another person in the courtyard who happens to be a compulsive gambler -- Rahul Sharma (played by John Abraham
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What's supposed to be a well acted, heartfelt story of a wounded soul finding himself and learning to heal is obliterated in one vile, manipulative swoop. This scene isn't deep or thought-provoking, it is in fact a sucker punch. John Abraham sprints through rain to deafening music and breaks up with his girlfriend, and in a matter of minutes 'Aashayein' goes from something that might have been memorable to a wholly unnecessary disappointment.
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Glamsham: 1.5
ReplyDeleteAASHAYEIN doesn't offer much hope. It only brings Nirashayein.
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Wow, you made a review thread for this piece of crap. Hats off to you. :D
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