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Staring: Karishma Kapoor, Hrithik Roshan and Jaya Bachchan
Director: Khalid Mohamed
Music: Anu Malik and A. R. Rahman
Producer: Pradeep Guha
Running time: 170 minutes
Format: NTSC
Video: 1.85:1, non-anamorphic widescreen
Sound: Hindi Dolby Digital 5.1
Subtitles: English
Year: 2000 (cinema), 2000 (DVD)
DVD: Single sided dual layered
DVD Author: Media Dimensions
DVD Release by: Video Sound
Synopsis
Fiza is a story of a young girl (Karishma Kapoor) in search
of her brother who disappeared during the communal riots of 1992-1993
in Mumbai. The film is centred around the relationship between a widowed
mother, living in the hope that her son will one day return, and her daughter,
fed up with living with uncertainty, decides to go in search of her brother.
Video
The Video Quality of this DVD is rather good considering it was only released
a couple of days after its theatrical release. Only problem is that it
is in the aspect ration of 1.85:1 which means it is non-anamorphic and
which also means that Video Sound have had to do a lot of cropping (about
1.5cm from each side). There aren't that many speckles except for some
scenes, which show a lot of unsteadiness in the picture, but it does not
distract the viewer that much. Some of the images in the scenes go a bit
fuzzy because of the non-anamorphic transfer. Colour rendition is good
especially in the 'Mere Watan' song. Overall this DVD probably
isn't the best in video quality but it isn't the worst either.Video
rating: 6/10
Audio
The Audio track for the DVD is presented in Dolby Digital 5.1 and it doesn't
disappoint the viewer one bit. If you have a 6-speaker theatre system
them make sure you crank up the volume because the audio is splendid.
The songs are rendered beautifully and the action scenes are also done
well. The DVD disappoints in the video section but makes up for it with
the great sound rendering. Anu Malik does the Music and has done an excellent
job with the song "Aaja Mahiya". Audio rating:
8/10
Extras
3 TV promos
Web links
IMDB (Internet Movie Database):
Fiza admission
Michel Hafner's (of IMDB) DVD
review of Fiza (both Spark Video/DEI & Video sound)
IDN's (Indian
DVD Newspage) movie and DVD reviews of Fiza - both Spark
Video/DEI & Video
Sound
zulm.net's review of Fiza DVD (Spark Video)
Summary
This DVD does disappoint, as the film is great and deserved a wide screen
anamorphic transfer. The menu of the DVD also is disappointing, as there
is no direct scene access, no making of or background to the film, no
moving pictures in the song selection or anywhere else for that matter.
This DVD is certainly watchable but when there is a better version of
this DVD already out, it's hard to ignore this version and escape to the
Spark Video version, which is much better
in most areas.
Overall 'zulmi' rating:
7/10
Screen grabs:
'DVD main menu - no chapter selection'
'DVD songs menu'
'poor Karishma still searching!'
'Sushmita Sen in a saucy dance number'
'is he pissed off?'
'Manoj offer his advice'
'he's back!'
'waayyyhey! subtitles are correctly framed - noddies take note!'
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