Just imagine this...a chef plans to cook a delicious dish for a very important event. He gets a wonderful recipe for the dish. he gets a few of ingredients of supreme quality and then he has to mix it up in the right proportion. But somehow, he confuses the proportions. The result will be a dish which will definitely give a hint of those quality ingredients and a distinct feel of a nice recipe will be there. But it will also leave a strange taste on the taste buds and after eating the dish, one would come up with certain hopes such as..."Only if there was bit more salt"; "Only if the gravy was a bit more cooked"!!!
Unfortunately, this is exactly what has happened with Veer. A Perfect recipe (the basic idea - an epic love story of a patriotic warrior who also has a strong bonding with his father). Then there were some excellent quality ingredients (some highly competent actors, great music and a grand canvas to work on). But somehow the chef (Anil Sharma( confuses the proportion of these ingredients. Just like the out of proportion dish i mentioned above, when i finished watching "Veer", i was thinking exactly the same..."Man! the idea was perfect; the music was wonderful; a few performances were great; the opportunity of making a historic movie with such a great hype was there, and one of the most loved stars of recent times (Salman Khan) was also there....then what went wrong? why was i feeling that the movie is never going to end|? And after a little thinking I got my answers...The bad taste in my mouth was because of the following reasons...
1. The direction was very inconsistent; some scenes were simply brilliant and some were highly pathetic.
2. The recipe was highly over-cooked, yet the chef finished it and garnished it in an extreme hurry. The build up for the climax was way over-cooked and the actual finishing was nowhere near the expectations. Its like climbing a huge mountain in hope of watching the sun go down and when you reach there, actually the sun had already gone down.
3, A few ingredients were really bad in quality; Sohail Khan tops the list, he is as irritating as ever. Jakie Shrof's role has no meat at all...All the britishers acted extremely poorly...they all seemed so artificial. The Soimbar sequence with the Hunk caled Rhino and the way Salman twists his neck was simply pathetic and was out of cartoon network.
Well its not all that bad though. There are some hints of very nice taste in this dish as well. Mithun was the best of all...this is his best work after Guru. Although I found my favorite star Salman Khan's performance to be much better in Wanted and London Dreams, yet he is in total control over here. A few weak scenes in the beginning though, but he is too good when he is furious.
The basic story was very good but the screenplay lacked power, dialogues lacked the punch which is highly required for a movie of this nature.
Music was soulful and beautiful, but this is where the chef Sharma really messed things up. He made a mess of his best ingredient and the songs, in spite of being beautiful visually and sounding great, prove to be hindrances and cause the movie to gain the unrequested extra running time.
Zarine is beautiful, but i dont know why i'm feeling that she is going to find it difficult to have a long life in indian cinema.
In a nut-shell, i am highly no totally disappointed with Veer, but it could've been much much better if the chef sharma had paid more interest on mixing up the contents in the right proportion.
or maybe the choice of the chef was not right all together. I cant find anyone else to blame but the director for this mediocre attempt which could actually have been a classic.
My Rating (only because of Salman, Mithun, Songs and a few good scenes...
2.5/5