Nonureva Really Surprised!

Grimossfer Clever and entertaining enough to recommend even to members of the 1%

Edwin The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.

Cassandra Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

Gypsi Bates Nandini is the daughter of a renown singer, Pandit, who takes Sameer to be a pupil. Nandini and Sameer secretly fall in love. As her family doesn't know, they betroth her to another man, Vanraj. When Pandit learns of the love between his daughter and student, he sends Sameer away and Nandini is married to Vanraj. Vanraj learns of her love for Sameer, and, as is inevitable with a love triangle, heartbreak happens.Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam begins as a romantic-comedy, light-hearted and fun, with a sweetly developing romance. About half way through, it turns into a drama that, quite frankly, had me ugly-crying by the end. While a love triangle is not a new plot, this one was well written and deep.Aishwayra Rai is a terrific actress and acted her part magnificently. Both Salman Kahn and Ajay Devgan were excellent as well, each one giving depth to his character. The music and choreography was memorable, and the cinematography breath-taking. This is a superb, emotional romance that is all around spectacular. I highly recommend it.

suri1011 I congratulate myself for going to watch it in the theater ! It was my luck that my friend dragged me to watch this timeless masterpiece by the Guru "Sanjay Leela Bhansali". Otherwise I detest chick-flicks like DDLJ and Devdas - crap it is in comparison to this Magnum Opus! Firstly, the ravishing performance by Rai - the deserving Miss world and film fare award for this performance.And the sensitive performance by Ajay who made this film a classic. His unconditional and selfless love towards the heroine! Salman was okay. Looked good but didn't act well.Other factors like music, cinematography, choreography and locations add value to the flick and make it a BLOCKBUSTER!! A worthy successor to the music Singing in the Rain'.An infinite out of ten from my side!!

chrishend Overall, I enjoyed this movie. It did most of the things I expect from Bollywood ... good songs, good dancing, a ridiculously hot girl, and at least initially a petty and simplistic plot.As the movie progressed, things got a lot more interesting and my hopes for the movie grew quite a bit as the husband character entered the picture.At the end, however, I can't help but feeling this movie let me down. It seemed to me to be a poor exercise in rationalizing the custom of arranged marriages and therefore an exercise in rationalizing what is effectively institutionalized slavery (the transfer of property rights ... in this case the "property" being Aishwarya). At the end we have the female lead expressing such notions as "love means sacrifice" which may be true, and was indeed noble when the husband was trying to find Sameer for her (although I don't quite know why the husband thinks he "loves" her when in fact he didn't know her at all at that point. He just recognized she was good-looking) but in this case the notion of sacrifice is only used as a rationalization for why Aishwarya should be willing to take on the traditional subservient role to her father and husband. CLEARLY her love of Kahn must have been silly, vain, and wrong because she wasn't "sacrificing" in that case, but now that she's agreed to do what all the males wanted her to do in the first place it is only NOW that she really understands what love means (a lesson naturally taught to her by her "husband"). And plus, her husband isn't really such a bad guy after all, so why rock the boat ... right? All pure rubbish, but I'm sure the people that feel arranged slavery is fine and dandy will have no problem sleeping at night after the twisted rationalizations that made it fine and dandy in this movie.Also, the depiction of Italians was borderline racist, but that wasn't central to the plot so I'll leave that one alone ...

santanu_de The second half of Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam is loosely inspired by the 1983 Naseeruddin- Padmini- Anil Kapoor film "Woh 7 Din" which itself was a remake of a South Indian Film.The first half's plot is from Maitrayi Devi's Bengali novel "Na Hanyate" (English translation: It does not die) which was written in response to world-renowned scholar Mircea Eliade's semi-autobiographical novel "Bengal Nights". There are several resemblances, including the 'mirchi-eating' incident, which suggest that they are more than uncanny resemblances.There are numerous films in several languages which have been based on literary works. There is nothing inherently wrong in that, except that in this case, Bhansali has not acknowledged the 'right' source of his work. We have heard that HDDCS has been based on a script told to him by one of his Gujarati fans. Really, Mr Bhansali? Or is it a case of acting naive and passing the responsibility of plagiarism to your Gujarati fan when one finds out?