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* Virasat
Posted Jun 08, 2002 - 07:46 AM
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DVD Review Anil Kapoor comes home to face a legacy that becomes his destiny in Priyadarshan’s award winning movie Virasat – read on for a look at the DVD from Video Sound...

Staring: Anil Kapoor, Amrish Puri, Tabu, Pooja Batra and Milind Gunaji
Director: Priyadarshan
Producer: Mushir-Riaz
Music: Anu Malik
Running time: 167 minutes
Year: 1997 (cinema), 1999 (DVD)
DVD: Single sided dual layered
Release by: Video Sound
Alternate versions: UK DVD by Laser East

Last East cover

alternate Video Sound cover

Extras:
- 'Star's File' - filmography of Anil Kapoor and Pooja Batra

Video:

Aspect ratio: 1.90:1 stretched to 1.66:1 frame (cropped from the original ~2.35:1)
Anamorphic enhanced: No
Format: NTSC
Source: 4/10 Artifacts: 4/10 Sharpness: 5/10 Colour: 7/10 Contrast: 6/10
Comment: source problems abundant, incorrectly framed and cropped video. decent colours but lacks and real DVD sharpness and detail

Audio:

Language/Formats: Hindi Dolby Digital 5.1
Subtitles: English, Japanese and Chinese (excluding songs)
Source: 4/10 Clarity: 5/10
Comment: pseudo 5.1 from a mono source panned to all channels, few drop-outs and slightly distorted

Overall DVD rating: 5/10
- another one of those brilliant films crying for a decent DVD release alas this DVD from Video Sound is not it (Last East UK DVD is said to poor in comparison to this)

Links:

- Alternate film and DVD review
- IDN Virsat film and DVD review
- Planet Bollywood film review

- Forums threads:

- dts dvd want feed back
- VideoSound responds to Virasat/Judaai matter!
- NO Virasat and Judaai from DEI ! ! !

Screen shots:


DVD main menu


DVD chapter


Somg menu 1

Somg menu 1


greetings


motion problems galore


cropped video


Amrish’s wisdom knowledge


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pondering


‘but I dunno wanna’


pushed too far?


the ugly duckling


fierce threats


over the edge


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