Tamasha begins with a stage play wherein Ranbir acts as a robot. The play there seemed to be completely illogical at that point of time, but as the same play was repeated at the end we clearly understand it. Ranbir Kapoor, the hero, plays Ved Sahni, he is cool, good looking and dramatic. He lends his phone to Tara played by Deepika Padukone who wants to make an urgent call. That's the way they meet. Tara is gorgeous and attractive. She totally gets engaged with him in Corsica. They decide that they won't let their relationship be the usual one; for this reason they don't even tell their real names to each other. The first half is funny and entertaining. It amuses you the way Deepika gets amused by Ranbir. She kinda falls for Ved because of his witty and cool nature. The song shot in Corsica titled 'Matargashti' completely illustrates Ved's madness and dramatic behavior. Imtiaz Ali makes another masterpiece after his first major break, Jab We Met. But Tamasha doesn't cater to almost all sorts of the audience, there may be many of them who might feel that this film doesn't create any sort of magic in their minds or hearts but frankly speaking the film itself is a magic created by the magician named Imitiaz Ali. His direction is accomplished and proficient. The screenplay is non- linear, it shows Ved on three different stages of his life i.e childhood, boyhood, and the matured one. Ranbir plays Ved as a young one and a matured one. The screenplay is fast, funny, appealing, and emotional in the second half. Ranbir is excellent as Ved. At some point of time we find Ved being inane. He makes you think that he requires a psychologist for his immature behavior. Later things get revealed and we see the reasons behind this and at least one thing is proved that our hero is not a psycho. Deepika also plays her role well. Tara loves Ved, she loves almost everything in Ved. In the second half things take a tragic turn in her life. Things aren't in the right place. Tamasha is all about finding who you are. Being yourself, living yourself. It's not good to compulsorily establish yourself as 'mediocre' or 'average'. It's about running in such a race in which you will come first rather than running in a rat race and landing almost nowhere.

Tamasha, (literarily translated as drama), although brought in front of the audience through the medium of cinema, is presented as a drama itself, with multiple acts, which starts with Teja's gold and ends with Don returns. Imitiaz aces in bringing out the best in ranbir, while presenting a story which is both endearing as well as disturbing. Endearing to view as an audience, to see the 3rd generation 'Hero' waltz us through the story, you smile as much as deepika does when you meet him in delhi, are dumbstruck when he behaves as he does n cringe at his dialogues, you want to beat the daylight out of him when he mouths dialogues which we use everyday (Corporates are the new countries). Then we see his metamorphosis, coming out of his cocoon through some hilarious scenes and wonderfully performed mirror talks. Disturbing for you, if you can feel, empathize n realize that you may also be doing exactly what the Hero does in his mediocre life, and maybe hoping deep inside for a Corsica or Tara to happen to you.Special performance by Piyush Mishra, cute acts by Jr.ranbir and credits to Rahman and Imtiaz for deeply integrating music into the medium. The back n forth narrative reminds me of rockstar.Do watch the movie and if not anything, you'll walk away admiring Ranbir, and hoping that he continues to be in good hands of talented directors.Life is a tamasha.

I don't understand why Indian film industry don't have good writers. They make big budget films comparison to world cinema and what budget it used to be and now where they are. Instead of paying to big actors and using latest cameras and special effects. I would say pay bit more to a writer and get some original scripts and story or invest in writers and promote writing as Indian industry need that badly as 95 percent of films are copy of something if not Hollywood then French, Korean, Spanish etc. I was literally yawning and bored through out apart from watching beautiful Corsica that was the only good thing about the film "the island" otherwise silly unrealistic story with over acting and jokes trying too hard with references to old films. Bad acting, bad direction, awful jokes and awful story line. After watching "Ae dil ha mushkil" and "Kapoor and Sons" I started to think they started making good films again but nope. It is definitely over rated on here, don't deserve a 7.

This movie is among the best movie of Bollywood. With fantastic story line and superb acting this movie certainly deserves a high status. Not to mention the music given by legendary A.R Rehman is extraordinary as usual and the music and the chore is undoubtedly the soul of this film. Another class movie from Imtiaz Ali, I should say the best among his all other films. The philosophy of this film might be unintelligible to some viewers so one should be prepared to catch the soul idea of the film while watching the film. A must watch for viewers who love to watch some different kind of films with philosophical idea. I would have given the film 9/10 but the overall rating of this film is too low. This film certainly deserves at least 8+ rating.