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    May 12, 2007

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    yves

    Hi Carla,

    Thanks EVER so much for your mention of the Jaman link where I was able to get that amazing film. You'll hear me about it soon no doubt. I'm still resonating from it, and its beauty is sinking into me.
    Do you have an idea why it so little appreciated by the public when it came out?
    Cheers discoverer
    yves

    yves

    Carla hallo again,
    Well, there, I've posted something rather extravagant about Khamoshi... Perhaps it's a little over the top? But I so loved it.
    You'll tell me.
    Cheers,
    yves

    carla

    Yves, I'll go read your comments. I am so glad that you enjoyed this wonderful movie and also that you took advantage of Jaman to see it.

    Hi Carla

    I saw this movie a few years ago.

    While i liked parts of it, i did not enjoy the movie. Reason - it was too depressing!

    Bad enough we had to move with the main characters being deaf and dumb, we had to even endure the painful part of the lead characters losing their son.

    I think this is one of the reason why the movie failed.

    cheers

    Meera

    carla

    Interesting comments, Meera - I didn't see the movie as depressing at all, even though bad things happened to the family; I saw it as very uplifting and hopeful, as the great love and understanding that they shared helped them to weather the tragedies that are unfortunately part of life.

    yves

    Hi Meera (if you come back and read!)
    Please if you can, watch this movie again, can you make that effort? (you can skip the hard scenes, you'll know when they come). But watch it again, and tell yourself this:
    Love is available to us in this world, love is all we have, love is our only riches. This film tells about this love. Remember the last scene? "He" is not forever silent, he answers us, he does love us... Whether you are a believer or not, love is the best that can happen to one. All this sounds so banal, and yet... it's the ordinary truth of our lives.
    Khamoshi celebrates this love, this quest for meaning, this reassuance that in spite of death and despair, there is a joy in living, no matter how hard troubles rain on us.
    This movie doesn't fail!! Love doesn't fail, it is there behind the dark clouds of pain and loss, it uses these clouds to shine even more when they are blown aside by the wind.
    Watch this movie again!

    Hi Carla and Yves

    As I said before, parts of the movie were good esp Helen and Manisha's acting. Nana of course always does well.

    Yet something didn't work for me in the movie when i saw it the first time. Maybe the landscape was also bleak at times?

    Yves, maybe I will watch it again after seeing your passionate posting! I hope I am able to get this DVD again.

    I don't know if any of you noticed that the song sung by Salman Khan in the church in Goa - Janaa Hum Tumse Pyaar karte hain is actually a copy of a famous old American pop song - Bring the wine my lady by a singer called Paul (I am forgetting his surname) - he was a very talented and famous singer but really old times may be in the early 70s ! I remember the song coz i heard it some time in the 1990s at a friend's place when i was in college (in India).

    Vikrant

    Wonderful!! This is my most favorite review on your site. You have done full justice to one of my favorite film. Thank you.
    I think this is Bhansali's best effort. Probably Manisha's career best performance...Nana Patekar gave a brave performance. This film was released during the period when Nana Patkar was very popular due to his acidic dialog delivery in movies like Tiranga. So majority of the audience was expecting that from Nana. And he played a mute character. Probably that was one of the reason why it didn't work well.

    As far as I remember, film's music was super hit. But, I think it has not aged well. I loved Bahon ke darmiyaan ...Hariharan's velvet voice made it a superb experience for me...also I was a big fan of Jaana suno and Udit Narayan...later I came to realize how Jatin-Lalit copied so many of their popular tunes. I can't enjoy these tunes any more.

    carla

    Vikrant - interesting about Nana Patekar being loved for his dialogue delivery at the time this film was made; it certainly must have come across as a departure for him!

    I admit that I have a soft spot for "Jaana suno hum tumpe marte hain" - but it's the melody that I love about it (plus Udit's singing), and the melody is of course one of Jatin-Lalit's more blatant thefts. *sigh*

    akif akram

    its a nice musical movie of this year.

    Ali

    Salman Khan love u .. You are the best .. :):):)

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