Movie Review: Dasvidaniya

Dasvidaniya

(The Best Goodbye Ever)

As the song from the band Agnee says: “Kabira jab paida hue toh jag hasa hum roye, asisi karni kar chalo hum hase jag roye…”

Knowing the fact that you are suffering from cancer and have only few days to live and enjoy all that the world has to offer to you. So you want to make everyone happy and live life to its fullest……!!

Well, this would seem very familiar to most of us as this storyline is heard as well as seen on screen.

Remember, Hrishikesh Mukherjee's “Anand”, where Rajesh Khanna tries to make things merry and jolly all around himself, knowing the fact that he is suffering from cancer, similar act was carried by Shahrukh Khan in Nikhil Advani’s “Kal Ho Naa Ho”, also Rob Reiner’s “The Bucket List” starring Morgan Freeman and Jack Nicholson.

Shashant Shah’s Dasvidaniya starring Vinay Pathak is just another well executed film, which keeps the audience attached to their seats and moves them along with the rhythm of the film leaving them just praising the work of the actors, scriptwriter and the director.

Though the movie is inspired from Rob Reiner’s “The Bucket List”, but it is not a crime to get inspired from a movie (though the out come of both films were different).

“Dasvidaniya” derives its name from the Russian word for ‘goodbye’, (a fitting farewell to the hero from the film’s only Russian connection.)

The name of the movie is a pun on the list of ten things to be done and is derived from the Russian phrase “do svidania”, meaning good bye.

Vinay Pathak, best known for his simpleton act in the hit comedy "Bheja Fry", plays Amar Kaul, a 37-year-old timid and lonely bachelor living out a humdrum middle-class existence in a Mumbai suburb, whose existence is forgotten among the millions of people in the pool of Mumbai’s ever-increasing population.

This story evolves around a man who makes a list of things to be done every day, finds himself diagnosed with stomach cancer and the last three months of his life, laughing at him. He then makes a list of things that he has desired to do in life, but could not do them, so he finally makes a final list of ” Thing to do Before I Die.”

The List made by Amar Kaul :

• A new car
• Guitar
• Boss ka boss
• Neha
• Foreign Trip
• Mumma
• Rajiv
• Love
• Photo on the front page
• Vivek

The music given by Kailash Kher is worth a treat to the ears, especially Alvida, Mumma.

The pace of the film does slacken in the second half, but brilliant acting by Vinay Pathak, Rajat Kapoor, Neha Dhupia, and poignant dialogues make up for its shortcomings.

The movie’s best scene can be considered to be the love proposal made by Amar Kaul to his childhood love Neha.

Amar Kaul leaves behind gifts for his loved ones, which leaves lasting impression and a smile on all the audiences, and they would be able to relate to themselves and think of the if they were in Amar Kaul’s situation.

Amar Kaul is well linked with the common man who has always wanted to do things but kept them on hold, due to the regular struggle in life. This is exactly what the common man wants from the movies which they can relate it to themselves.

Life is a precious gift from God and we humans are simply lucky to cherish this gift, but are we making the best use of this opportunity given to us.

Every general person spends half of their life earning bread and luxury for their family and the remaining half of their life is spent in the struggle to achieve it for their families.

So, where does he/she have time for themselves, all that he/she has dreamed or desired to do is kept himself and buried with him to his grave.

Therefore here is a question to all those holding onto their desires within themselves:

“How do you want to be remembered when you are gone from the lives of your loved ones, just leaving tears in their eyes or driving them back to the memories which will make them smile over all the memories spent with you.”?

Think and make your LIST of Things that you want to do, which you had been holding within yourself. Reach out for those desires and dreams and make all efforts to achieve it. Remember there is no such word as Impossible because the word Impossible itself says I-M-Possible………

Sayonara, Adieu, Goodbye, Alvida, Khuda Hafiz are just words that we often use. But we need to do things for which we have been longed to do in life, for which our loved ones will cherish us with a smile on their face not tears in their eyes.

So there all the viewers go and enjoy it as it is a worth treat of 2008!! , and all the producers this one’s for u all:

"Big budgets and Star cast don’t make a good movie — good scripts do…."