One of my all-time favorite movies is ‘Aisha.’ I decided to find reviews of that movie and see how others perceived it as. Mayank Shekhar, an Indian film critic gave the movie a 1/2 star out of 5. Let's find out why.
The critique explains that the movie begins with a wedding of a middle-aged pair with couples sipping on champagne, tinkling & toasting to good health and white sparkling white clothes. He made sure to point out that white is considered an inauspicious color by Hindus. In this movie, Sundays afternoons were reserved for fancy hats at the races. He claims to have never gone for such imagined circles and found them hyped. According to him, these details were necessary.
He then described how he found the New York-based Mira Nair seem to know more about New Delhi’s upper-class and Punjabis as in the movie Monsoon Wedding, than this director.
The film borrows from Jane Austen’s novel Emma.
Sonam Kapoor plays the lead role and she’s Aisha. According to the writer, in this movie, the girls make being single beyond a certain age as if it were a city disease. Sonam heads the sisterhood, a gang of three girls, who are so convinced that they will be able to find a suitable boy to settle with. However, they all have crushes on some guys and eventually end up with them too. He said, Sonam really played the young Aisha who was the unnecessary matchmaker. This heroine also knew her mate Abhay Deol, who was dependable as ever and he’d just be wasting time with Aisha.
The main conflict remains yet the only one possible in urban romances these days: how friends turn lovers eventually, for which he gave a few classic Bollywood examples- Jaane tu ya jaane na, I hate love stories, etc.
He felt that a hidden agenda for female aspiration in other words marketing is adequately fulfilled with those constant camera closes in to capture detailed shots of pencil stilettos, Ferragamo signage at stores, and L'Oreal’s nail polish of obvious shades.
The atmospherics is complete, he wrote. He said the drama was bland, the dialogues were a complete Blah and the vibes were cold. He said in a funny way that there was a use of Hinglish, which really is Hindi and English combined. The couples in the movie rotated in circles and very little makes sense in the movie.
He ended by saying that an odd guy comedian, Cyrus Sahukar would also be more entertaining than a film entirely set around a girl – a chick flick, as they say.
Well, whatever this critique may say, this movie has been and will be my favorite forever.
I personally feel I may have liked it more than he did, for two obvious reasons- one, I’m a girl and this movie is rich, glamorous and fashionable and second, I’m a New Delhiite!
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