Barkhaa Movie Reviews

Barkhaa rains down a rhapsody of drama and romance. A heartwarming at times touching tale of an innocent girl’s journey into the world of deceit, compromise and corruption, it echoes Raj Kapoor’s Ram Teri Ganga Maili and Kamal Anrohi’sPakeezah in the way the respectable genteel upper class is shown to exploit women of meager means.Sara Loren is no Meena Kumari. But she kills the part much better than Mandakiniin Raj Kapoor’s fevered fable.

Not surprisingly, with the World Cup fever at its peak, Bollywood seems to be the one facing the repercussions. Unless and until, it has a strong script, the chances of a film's survival at the box-office are quite negligible. But this week's release BARKHAA stars a bunch of 'semi' newcomers and is helmed by a debutant director. Will BARKHAA be able to stand the test of time (read 'World Cup') and create a niche for itself at the Box-Office? Let's analyze.

Maybe the intention of the film was to tell us that ladies who dance for a living also have the right to respectability, which is wonderful, but a mothballed plot and an even more mothballed treatment isn’t the way forward.

Overwrought and laboured, the idea to reignite a good old flame fails lacks both passion and pain.