I am an avid Bollywood supporter, watching Bollywood movies from the time I can remember myself. Regardless of the cast of a movie, its budget or its promotions, I watch all movies and judge and rate them on my own and for my own knowledge mostly.
Devastated and alone, she turns to Inder who helps her find accommodation. He had broken up with his girlfriend and was getting closer to Saru. Seeing how unhappy she was, Inder did everything possible to make her happy. He even went to the extent of finding eligible suitors to get her married to. He gets her a complete transformation done, making her unbelievably beautiful. Finally the guy Saru loved, falls in love with her and asks for her hand in marriage.
Her fianc needs to relocate to Turkey after the marriage and both he and Saru have to do routine medical tests as procedure would have it when moving to another country. From the blood tests done, it is discovered that Saru has Meningioma (a tumour deep in the brain). Subsequently the wedding is called off as his parents would not allow their son to marry a girl whose parents have already performed her death rights.
A heartbroken, devastated Saru (still unaware of the test results) turns to Inder who, himself is shattered from the fact that his love Saru was about to get married and leave the country. Saru and Inder go to her already booked Honeymoon suite. Saru is a wreck and asks Inder to spend the night with her. Inder does not want to hurt her anymore and resists, saying that in the morning she will hate him. They spend the night together anyway.
Inder and Saru get married and Saru gets ill. Her parents find out and they are beyond consolation. Saru has just a few hours left. In that time, her parents make peace with her and she gets Inder to forgive his father for not helping fight his case. Saru also tells Inder that she wants to be buried under a beautiful tree.
Saru dies. Inder and his father make peace with each other. Inder buries Saru under an oak tree in the garden of their mansion. Inder becomes a successful lawyer and goes daily to the oak tree to meet his Saru.
The movie was directed by Radhika Rao and Vinay Sapru, produced by Deepak Mukut under the Eros banner. The songs in the movie are full of meaning, painful yet lovable enough to make you cry and laugh at the same time. The music was produced by Himesh Reshammiya and sung by Ankit Tiwari, Neeti Mohan, Palak Muchal and Arijit Singh amongst others.
The story of the movie was not one that was not seen before but what made it so painfully beautiful was the scintillating acting of Inder, played by Harshvardhan Rane and Saru played by Mawra Hocane. This was a Bollywood debut movie for both Harsh and Mawra but gosh, their acting was so brilliant that it will touch you in ways that you will never forget.
I have purchased the DVD and have watched it close to 50 times now. Regardless of the number of times you watch Sanam Teri Kasam, the impact is the same. I have cried buckets of tears each and every time.
I had this film recommended to me by a friend (Thank you, Margaret!), saying that I would love it. Lo and behold, I did love it. By the way, if you are in to sweet, sincere, sappy and VERY romantic movies, then this is for you! This is the ultimate female fantasy movie! Do you love to have your heart broken to a million pieces and be happy about it? Then watch this! It is a cult classic for a reason. This is if someone put all of my favourite romance tropes together in a movie, with gorgeous actors and gorgeous music. So yeah, I am the audience for this movie and I love to see a movie that seems tailor-made for me.
This movie sprung from the brilliant minds of writes-directors Radhika Rao and Vinay Sapru. This film is all about subverting expectations, but also fulfilling them in unexpected ways. It also has just a brilliant screenplay, with things said before being repeated again or being much more meaningful later on. I know it is a basic of story writing, but somehow it jumped more for me in this movie.
Yes, at the front we have the pretty nerdy girl, but her sister (played by Divyetta Singh) is a curvier and she is the one with a suitor willing to marry her, while our main heroine has not. We have the extremely hot ex-convict who seems like trouble, he has the tattoos and all, but in the end is one only because it was to help a person he loved. You expect the story to go one way, only for it to either break your heart in the next scene or making you wonder where did it come from, only for it to be something already set up in-story. When watching it the first time, it really did surprise me.
Her transformation is both internal and external, like a butterfly. She gains confidence after a makeover, thinking this will solve her problems, but reaps no reward from said makeover in a sense. After it, she sees her father making the death ceremony for her (one of the cruelest things one can do) and she is asked out by her long time crush, only to be rejected by him and his family because of said ceremony.
Not to mention, Saru has the full control when it comes to the sex scene. She is the one who wants it, Inder also desires it, but it too proper not to make the move. She kisses him and we see them lying together in what was meant to be her wedding bed.
He also never hurts anyone, unless they threaten to hurt the one he loves. Violence is never his first choice, it is talking, sheltering and being helpful. The first act we see is him feeding a homeless kitten! He even adopts it! The only time he threatens someone is when they have done something despicable to Saru: one being her father and the other being her former crush ex-fiancee. He is protective, but not wanting to become the bad ex-convict the world thinks he is, but only superficially so (tattoos, workout etc.). Early on, a character says that he can site every law at the top of a hat, which pays off the beginning of the movie, since we see he has become a trial lawyer.
This film is about the unfulfilled. The chances not taken or understood or coming too late. The love of Saru and Inder is one such love story. With her realisation of her love for Inder coming too late, along with the worsening of her brain tumour. You are kept wishing they would come together sooner, that they would have more time. That is the tragedy of stories like these, you keep wanting it to change at every watch. Yet a part of you know it would not be as cherished as a movie it is if it were not to end differently. Ever the cruel fate of tragic romances as this, with their pain and pleasure in equal measure.
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