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Khwab Hai, a reviewAll I want is everything…. This is the dream that the hero of the film had. And the title of the film was deliberately chosen as an understatement, so as to capture the aspirations that the main protagonist had for himself. The theme of the movie also revolves around the misty eyed dreams that a simple yet highly ambitious young man of Banaras has for himself. The story of the movie goes in this fashion : Suraj Srivastav is a budding young man , brought up in the town of Banaras by his extremely caring and loving mother. The hero has grown up reading and hearing tales from his mother the great achievements of great men. An impressionable character, the boy grows up to be an adult with the vaulting ambition that one day he too would be like one of his adulated heroes. The latest addition to his list of heroes is a media bigwig - Naved Ali. The personality and the entire halo surrounding this man takes the breath away from the hero. In the pursuit of his idol, Suraj, the protagonist , goes to study to Bombay in the very same prestigious college from which his idol had studied. In a chance meeting in which Naved Ali happens to visit the college, the young hero bumps across his mentor. He even self assumes a challenge in a dramatic away of winning a scholarship that Naved Ali promises to give to the best all rounder performer of the college, namely a gateway to Harvard College. Meanwhile, the young man finds a very lively and sporting admirer of his – the college beauty Pooja ( Rani Mukherjee) The girl likes the simplicity of the hero and also appreciates the young hero’s ambition of growing high in life. The admiration soon goes into love, and is of course reciprocated in earnest by the hero. The plot takes a turn however on the annual sports day when the hero sacrifices his chance of participating in the race and win the scholarship, just to save the life of a police officer who is attacked by criminals. The hero misses the scholarship, but gains something else……the attention of his mentor. A new life begins as Naved Ali showers his new found talent with startling opportunities , along with the good things of life – a good apartment, a good car and the rest…the young hero is given the chance of heading an entirely new channel, Awaz, the latest dream project of Naved Ali. And it is then that the hero realizes that all that is being given to him is not without a price. He understands that his mentor is not the hero that he thought to be but just a power hungry, manipulative man who is merely using him as a pawn to realize his own wants. The realization dawns through a dranatic scene, when the hero’s sister became a victim of a reservation drive launched on the sly by Naved Ali. The movie ends depicting how the hero turns head-on with his mentor and exposes his vices - all for the welfare of the mass and the young populace. The hero then returns, along with his love, to his simple life in Banaras. Seen from a critical angle, the story of the movie is good. The flaw, however, lies in its execution. While there is nothing that can be said to have been missed out in the film, the film lacks the finesse that could have qualified it as a real good movie. Coming to the acting part of it, Abhisek fails to show the gusto that his character needed. The man copies copiously from his father, but lacks that sensitivity and passion that the latter had in his young days. Coming to the performance given by Rani Mukherjee, she performs what she was expected to do – bring in some glamour to the movie. So also does Sushmita Sen who plays the secretary of Naved Ali in the film. Even the music and the dance sequences of the movie are pretty ordinary. Seen on the whole, the movie can best be said to be a time pass, and nothing more. |
