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saw tehzeeb, here's my review: (has a few minor spoilers that were inevitable...dont worry, ill still let you enjoy the movie)
Tehzeeb revolves around Ruksana Jamal (Shabana Azmi), and her daughters Tehzeeb (urmila) and Nazneen (dia mirza). Rukshana is a flamboyant, famous, and self-indulgent ghazal/pop singer who is married to the alcoholic Anwar (Rishi Kapoor). After his mysterious death, witnessed by 6-year-old tehzeeb, both mother and daughter start to build a wall of tension. When Tehzeeb grows older, she marries Salim (Arjun Rampal), a pulp-romance novelist, who is currently writing a novel on his wife Tehzeeb and her mother. THey live happily with Nazneen, who was before put into a mental institution by Rukhsana, and taken out by her caring sister Tehzeeb. after a couple years, the mother comes to visit her distorted family, and at first things are going smoothly but slowly the tension between the mother and daughter erupts in slow pace and tension starts to take over their household. The arugments jump back and forth between the hands of Rukhsana and Tehzeeb, putting the mentally unstable Nazu in the middle of it all. MEANWHILE, Salim is trying to get his novel published by Sheena, a publisher (Diana Hayden), and has some paparazzi mix ups which show their "affair" together.
Performance wise, Shabana and Urmila come up on top once again. They both have shown beyond excellent performances in the past, and this is proof of their capabilities. Shabana has always been amazing, but it is Urmila, portraying her headstrong character of Tehzeeb, who shows her versatility and power as an actress. she is Definetly the best that we have in our industry today, leaving far behind actresses like Rani Mukherjee, Priety Zinta, and Aishwarya Rai. Her talent surpasses what hindi cinema has seen till this day, and hopefully someday recieve international recognition for her work. Tehzeeb goes along with her brilliant performances this year (Bhoot, Pinjar) and she should have every nomination in the Best Actress category this year, and if possible, win each one (and after last years "double award" fiasco, its more than possible!). Arjun Rampal is above average in his role as Salim. He provides stability, narration, and comic relief to the film, although is role doesn't have much to show, she plays it with ease and is a pleasure to watch. Dia Mirza as Nazneen was a bit of a letdown. Her character shown in the promos of this film looked more powerful then it actually turned out, and at times seemed a little immature than what her character needed. Diana Hayden perhaps is the worst actress I have seen till date. If she is ever given a role in a film, it must be silent, because her forgien accent doesn't let the audience even BEGIN to understand what she is trying to say, plus, she doesn't provide any more glamour to the film, but just comes as a distraction to the overall plot. Rekha Rao as the servent is irritable.
The plot of this film could have been very strong (inspired by Autumn Sonata), if given proper treatment, and if stayed focused on the main conflict between Ruksana and Tehzeeb. As rumors have it, the role of Arjun Rampal was supposed to be a friendly appearance, and would have made much sense to the story to have it like that, but the director Khalid Mohammad increased the length of his role, adding in the unfortunate Diana Hayden and unnessesary nonsense. The subplot with Satish Kaushik and Namrata Shirorkar could have EASILY been avoided in the movie, as well as the songs.
The music of this film, I think is some of A. R. Rahman's most different and innovative works, but in this film has been used so, utterly terribly, that it brings even Rahman to shame. All of the songs, except the finally song could have easily gone wtihout the song-dance routine, and could have been weaved as background score througout the plot line of the film, allowing less commotion on the screen, and letting the plot flow more easily.
Santosh Sivan who has given mindblowing cinematography for films like Dil Se is wasted in this. None of his talent is shown, and looks mediocre, although Art direction should get some credit. the colors and lighting used in this movie greatly made the emotions more impacted. Editing was extremely choppy, partly due to the lagging screenplay, which left viewers questioning and suprised at times that it shouldnt of had. Dialouges were brilliant between Tehzeeb and Ruksana, but other than that lagged in every other respect, using dialouges that were either inappropriate, or just plain unnessesary.
It hurts my heart to give this film a bad review, because I loved the performances and the music, but because of the completely mediocre direction of this film, I have to give this film a 3/5. If proper focus was given to the plot of the film, leaving out the songs, and unnessesary subplots to give that masala kick to the film, Tehzeeb would have been brilliant. Sorry, Khalid...keep writing films, just stop directing them.
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