Create your own myth, choose your own story. This is what the director tells us through Tamasha which has Ranbir Kapoor and Deepika Padukone in love with each other.
We have a fairy-tale romance of Ranbir and Deepika’s love story with the backdrop of picturesque Corsica bistros, dreamy countryside, sparkling blue waters. This could go down as one of the most complex love stories woven by Imtiaz Ali.
‘Tamasha’ tell you that one doesn’t need to be satisfied with the stories that one hears around.
Ved Vardhan Sahni (Ranbir Kapoor) is enchanted by stories, who grows up hearing them and expresses himself by performing them. Ved is a dreamer. A free spirited person who wants everybody around him to be happy.
An average guy, he is a nomad, going out of his way to please people. We get to see the three stages of a boy growing up – as a nine-year-old child, then a 19-year-old adolescent and finally a 30-year-old adult who is just wandering in his life.
Tara Maheshwari (Deepika Padukone) is an Asterix fan. Expressive, emotionally agile girl with a gentle gait who sets out on an adventure in Corsica where she meets Ved. They both explore the beautiful French island and, along the way, they form a troupe to stage dramatic plays and fall passionately in love.
Daughter of a Tea Garden estate owner, what she has unknowingly done is to help Ved get out of the monotonic life. Experimenting in life, Ved prefers to be called as “Don” and Tara becomes “Mona Darling”.
The holiday gets over, back to the mundane life, Ved and Tara come across each other in India, where they are totally changed characters. The story takes them to Delhi, Shimla, Kolkata and then Japan.
The director goes deeper into various aspects of one’s personality – the coexistence within an individual of positive and negative feelings toward the same person, simultaneously drawing him and her in opposite directions.
Sometimes in trying to belong, you lose your edge, you become blunt and you forget who you are unless someone comes to remind you, someone who has seen you at that time.
It’s not that simple because it takes the undoing of entire life’s experience to get in touch with yourself and your wild energy.
After all, all the world’s a stage.
See it for Ranbir’s and Deepika’s chemistry.
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Cast:
Ranbir Kapoor as Ved Vardhan Sahni
Deepika Padukone as Tara Maheshwari
Piyush Mishra as Storyteller
Javed Sheikh as Ved’s father
Nikhil Bhagat as Tara’s father
Vivek Mushran
Faraaz Servaia
Punam Singh
Credits & Crew:
Production Company – Nadiadwala Grandson Entertainment, UTV Motion Pictures
Produced by Sajid Nadiadwala
Directed by Imtiaz Ali
Written by Imtiaz Ali
Music by A. R. Rahman
Cinematography – Ravi Varman
Edited by Aarti Bajaj
Tamasha – Movie Review
