I am not a good cook and made many overcooked meals but the latest is by Pankaj Kapoor. Mausam is really a movie where the romance gets overcooked. Along with being a romantic movie, too many tag of events like babri masjid demolition , godhra riots, etc without giving proper time to assimilate them has made this movie a bag of semi optimised evolution.
The start is very refreshing with the village backdrop of punjab and shahid (harry) being the village smart boy, the boy next door and the pack leader of his gang. Similarly refreshing is Aditi (rajjo) , harry's secret admirer and the secret love of one of harry's friend. The initial comic reliefs in the form of "chirchiri tai" also make people laugh. Sonam (Ayat) makes a quiet entry and soon enough mute love affair between sonam and shahid starts. Both of them having a scarred past have their own set of nightmares. When shahid finally decides what to do with sonam, she with her family had to leave for scotland which takes us 7 years forward. Once again the love story takes another start with shahid being the squadron leader in indian air force. But this time also when shahid decides to finally ask for sonam's hand, Kargil war happens and we have to move forward again. At this time many of us will feel if this love story is going a bit far stretched.
The overall plot may have been great if the subplots were not that dread, particularly those after sonam goes to scotland. Many times she comes back for shahid not finding any clue of him, Shahid going to meet sonam and finding her house locked, the constraint pains of sonam and many more. There was a mystery moment also where the binocular had red stains on it. Many may think of it as blood stain which may be revealed later on but that doesn't happen.
Acting wise, shahid did a good job as the village smart boy. But in his later part as the squadron leader he became too self serious with a plywood-stiff performance. Sonam's character was never allowed to grow in the film except for her fears of the past and traumas of the present. It is a real waste of a talent here. But most of the praise goes for Aditi for her character of Rajjo, who genuinely passes as secret admirer becoming jilted lover who loves shahid even after her marriage and wants to jump off the train to elope with him.
The music is good and light but the action sequences are the worst. One of the eyesore were the fight sequences in kargil. Our film industry has developed so much but the quality of those fight sequences were of prehistoric era. The film tries to launch several times with the regular masala moments but fails overall. A complete failure for pankaj kapoor as the director of a love story gone haywire because of under-communication between the prime couple. The most original romantic moment being the scene where shahid and sonam exchanges names on pieces of papers.
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