This, being a Bollywood Romance, is an immersion in style--and if you are looking for realism, sensible plot, or folks with everyday problems, you are in the wrong market. Saawariya is similar to many Golden Age MGM musicals where color is all--in this case, a dense blue that saturates the Never-Neverland sets, sometimes flooded with rain, at other times brilliantly lit with bright primary colors, always a stunning backdrop for some dazzling dancing.The primary story is one of unrequited love, of the Sad Clown who loves in vain--the particular firecracker in this film is Rani Mukherjee, who plays a Lady of The Night with puckish zip, always adding some exclamation points when the romance of her friend flags--it's a musical with style, and as such, I found it highly entertaining. Note added a month after seeing this: I recently watched, for the first time, Visconti's Notte Bianchi--White Nights--and Saawariya is a Bollywood remake of Visconti's film--which takes off from a Dostoevksy story--the two films make a fascinating comparison!

Saawariya is a movie loosely based on Fyodor Dostoevsky's short story "White Nights". First things First is debut actor Ranbir Kapoor. He completely reminds of you Raj Kapoor with his actions and dressing style in the movie; he also reminds you of Shammi Kapoor with the "Yahoo" style of mannerisms and dance, in dance again his style is a serious competition to Hritik Roshan.Sonam Kapoor reminds of you Waheeda Reahman from Pyaasa, it is cause of her natural beauty or the lighting effect or whatever may be the cause. Her character was too docile in the movie and very indecisive. The movie has not being appreciated cause of the art that Sanjay Leele Bansali has put up and has a depressing ending, just like Fanna ending. You can do this to a movie with such happy characters.What does the colours actually mean in the movie. I think it was to showcase some kind of dreamland or cause the whole era in the movie or a time is not fixed in the movie. One thing that the audience cannot relate to the movie is because there is definite time period. At the same time, i would appreciate the art and the set design that was undertaken in the movie and the imagination that was used, but why Blue color? Other characters in the movie. Veteran actor Zohra Sehgal is quiet good in the movie as English lady with complete panache and does to justice to her role. Rani Mukherjee actually overdid and make up with all the songs in the movie. for Salman Khan fans, this is not a Salman Khan movie

An expensive and indulgent experiment, Saawariya doesn't quite work because the writing is flawed and the director doesn't seem to notice. Once a master manipulator of human emotions, Bhansali now fails to invest in his characters even the smallest dose of believability. Like cardboard caricatures, lifeless and dull, they rattle off ridiculous dialogues trying to sound like they have something profound to say. How you cringe in that scene where Ranbir convinces Zohra Sehgal to lease him a room, or that one in which he likens being sad to losing a boxing match.Saawariya comes off contrived and fake, and fails to strike a chord. You feel nothing for its characters, at best sympathy for the two young actors trapped in this pathetic, pretentious pap.Starring newcomers Ranbir Kapoor and Sonam Kapoor as Raj and Sakina, the protagonists in question, director Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Saawariya is a glossed-up, all song-and-dance take on Dostoevsky's classic tale White Nights, and also borrows judiciously from Luchino Visconti's 1957 film version. But where Visconti's black-and-white film stays faithful to the story's intimate set-up and stark feel, Bhansali goes for a larger-than-life, almost kingsize scale, throwing in dazzling colours, opulent sets, imaginatively choreographed musical numbers, a half-dozen references to Raj Kapoor's films, and the kind of melodrama you can expect only in a Sanjay Leela Bhansali film - remember Devdas?Well, the problem with varnishing a simple love story with all those embellishments is that the very simplicity of the plot, the fragility of the characters' emotions is lost amidst all that showing-off. What you get as a result, is a love story without soul.

Sanjay Leela Bansari is an amazing Directer, I have watched all his movies. I fell in love with him when I saw "Hum dil de chuke sanam", not only the movie, but even the music was amazing! So was Devdas and Black. Now Saawariya, even though taken from "White Nights" was a very beautiful story, and the breathtaking, gorgeous set. Now this is what I love about SLB, his sets are extra ordinary, everything has to be perfect, the Haveli in Hum dil de chuke sanam, the outfits and the red light district in Devdas and the scenery in Black.Personally I think, the biggest mistake that SLB made in Saawariya was that he made it too short. I, just like many other Indian movie watchers are so used to to watching a 3 hr movie. In Saawariya, I was just falling in love with the characters and getting my emotions coming up, feeling what they were feeling and "BHAM" it was over. Salman Khan was there and the movie was over! I think, if the same story was told in 3 hrs, it would have been a hit. In such a story, we need time to feel and get our emotions at the right place, getting them there we need to enjoy them, just like in Hum dil de chuke sanam, Devdas and Black. We felt with them and had tears in our eyes at the end. With sawariya we didn't have time to feel and realise the pain.Ranbir Kapoor, a good actor, Sonam Kapoor very beautiful, lovely expressions. The cast was very well chosen and so was the music.My opinion, what a waste it was, such a beautiful story, such a breathtaking set, amazing cast and then the feelings were missing. All in all, here we see, how you can make amazing to average. I still love SLB, although he disappointed me this time, but I hope he has learned his lesson and that his next movie will be long enough for us to fall in love again!