Veer-Zaara: Master stroke by king of romance

Without acquiring political tones, "Veer-Zaara" does to Indo-Pakistan 'dosti' what politicians cannot do. The movie tries to dispel the darkness of the mind to reveal the ultimate human truth . Love here is elementary, yet powerful. It crosses man-made and mind-made barriers to dissolve into the unknown spirit which envelops all of us, yet transcended by a few.

Shah Rukh Khan here scales the heights of sensitivity, rising above the mundane. His expressions are mature and reach out to touch the heart of the common man. As a prisoner lodged in a Pakistani jail, he breathes life into the story.

His trauma becomes a saga and speaks about the untold sufferings of innocent prisoners.

Preity Zinta, too, has managed to rise to the heights which the script attempts to explore. As a bubbly Pakistani woman treated with contempt by the conservative society, she is immensely likeable.

Giving love its due, Yash Chopra has understandably linked the script to the life of a common man. The pace is exacting. Drawing from the best of the two countries, the story is made more colorful by a spray of the Punjabi culture — be it celebrating Lohri in India or visiting a dargah in Pakistan. He has handled the script cleverly. Whenever the pace begins to slacken, he introduces a new character and a twist.

Aditya Chopra's dialogues make an impression. Late Madan Mohan’s music is adequate.

Rani Mukherjee, who plays a Pakistani lawyer, forcefully asserts her skills. The Amitabh Bachchan-Hema Malini pair is back again with an endearing chemistry. Anupam Kher, Divya Dutta, Boman Irani and Manoj Vajpai have played their characters well.

There are some touching scenes which cannot be described. These have to be seen and experienced.

So you can ignore when at times these become unrealistic. Another weak point is that towards the end the pace becomes slow.

Though the dose is endemic, yet it is for everybody's consumption. Not because it is uniquely different, but because it even touches the indifferent. — TNS

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