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Baar Baar Dekho

Baar Baar Dekho (2016)

September. 09,2016
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5.4
| Drama Action Romance

An artist wishes to marry her childhood sweetheart and settle into family life. However, her boyfriend, who is a genius mathematician is afraid of commitment and breaks up with her just ahead of their wedding. What will the future hold in store for them?

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namashi_1
2016/09/09

Back To The Future, anyone? Remember how magically that Cult-Classic took us & its lovable protagonist ahead & back in time, only to be delighted with pure cinematic thrill! Director Nitya Mehra makes a similar, albeit limping effort with her well-budgeted feature 'Baar Baar Dekho'. While interesting in parts & made with honesty, the Writing & the Pace are erratic. Lets Continue....'Baar Baar Dekho is about A maths professor (Sidharth Malhotra), who is taken back & ahead of time, when he backs out of marrying his lady-love (Katrina Kaif). What follows is flashbacks & flash forwards! 'Baar Baar Dekho' begins with genuine promise. The opening credits, which show us how the man & woman met, right from kids to now, is beautifully done. And the pace is decently maintained for sometime, but post-interval, the pace drops. What starts off as an interesting time-travel love-story, suddenly turns into a melodramatic tale, with lesser feeling. And by the time we reach its culmination, we're tired. The Protagonist isn't too bright to begin with, despite being a maths professor, who worships Vedic Mathematics. It literally takes him decades (although days for him), to realize the value of life & his woman. Though at first his unsure nature & his amusement to the unexpected time-travel happenings appear believable, but later-on, he just doesn't seem to get the point & loses our support. Its a rather under-written role, that demanded more depth. Nitya Mehra's Screenplay is a mixed bag. At times, interesting, and at times, dull. The Writing doesn't make solid use of its fascinating concept & that's disheartening. There was genuine potential here. Mehra's Direction is good, though. She knows the craft of filmmaking well, but as a Writer, she lets herself & us, down after a point. Ravi K. Chandran's Cinematography is marvelous. Amitabh Shukla's Editing needed to be sharper. The film is a bit too long at a 140-minutes! Music by Various Artists is fantastic & the high-point of the enterprise. Art & Costume Design are well-done, while the Make-Up appears fake.Performance-Wise: Sidharth Malhotra is limited to a few expressions & hence his performance here, is nothing extraordinary. Though very sincere, the actor stumbles in some portions, especially when he ages old. Katrina Kaif looks gorgeous as always & is passable in her part. Rajit Kapur, Ram Kapoor, Sarika & The Wonderful Sayani Gupta, are given too little to do.On the whole, 'Baar Baar Dekho' is thoroughly watchable, but that's about it.

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JD
2016/09/10

Very surprised at the low rating. I thought this movie would turn out to be a blockbuster after I saw it. I am a very selective movie watcher and I simply adored this movie. It captures the essence of how to live life more fully and what matters the most eventually. Very dramatically sequenced. The characters seem real, the direction is great, the story moves at a fast pace. Lots of surprises and twists to keep you hooked. Overall its great entertainment and leaves you with food for thought. Whoever created the storyline, the direction, the script and whatever goes into movie making did a great job! Watch it with your family. Everyone should see it at least once. Would watch it again!

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chiragsharma-14930
2016/09/11

If you had a chance to go back into the past and 'fix' it, what would you do? Turn joyous cartwheels of course, because hindsight gives us wisdom that we didn't have when we were in the moment. Maths genius Jay Varma (Sidharth Malhotra) has the gift of time travel, that miraculous thing which he can use to make things right between him and lady love Diya Kapoor (Katrina Kaif). What can go wrong with that most intriguing premise, even if we've seen similar stuff in About Time and The Time Traveller's Wife? Quite a lot, actually, as it turns out: Baar Baar Dekho doesn't have anything that can entice us into repeat viewings, let alone a single one, because the execution is flat and banal. The problems are apparent right from the beginning when the characters start taking shape: they remain fuzzy, especially the character whose actions set everything in motion. Sure, a potential groom can start developing cold feet when the rituals of the big fat Punjabi wedding, fronted by a big fat Punjabi papa, threaten to overwhelm. But Jay is such a drip that you are never convinced about anything he does, whether it is a feeble declaration of loveor a stab at teaching moony-eyed female students. The life lessons that Baar Baar Dekho holds out is a) there's more to life than differential equations (we know), b) the past and the future can only be accessed through the present (we know ) and c) that Katrina Kaif may have the most amazingly mobile waist in the universe but her emoting ambitions are strictly futuristic (this we get to know all over again, sigh). I have now started finding better movies through www.flickstree.com. It not only suggests great movies to watch, it also tells where you can watch the movie online.. Highly recommended.

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bhattaswagato
2016/09/12

I went to watch the movies with my wife .We loved it. It was touching, comedy, and emotional. It has a message that is worth remembering. It is not the big things, but the emotional small things.. being there for each other that matters the most. We, guys, forget our life and chase life. When it is too late, do we get another chance? We can all relate somewhat with the movie. I enjoyed it a lot. If you have the time, do watch it. It will not be disappointing. Actress Katrina beautifully portrayed her role. I liked the jokes too. What was missing was more showing of the future. And, we would have loved to see how the actress fell in love again with another men. That seemed like enough to feel repulsed.

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