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Reviewing Guzaarish, it's a catch-22 situation (at least for me). If I say the movie is ‘Perfect… So Close’, I fool myself and if I tell the movie did not satiate my senses (or any one), it could send wrong signals to the lovers of art house films, since very few films like this are produced under big banners in India (Especially, the Bollywood). Hence, the director must be applauded for his courage to consider yet another off-beat plot after the Saawariya debacle. 
The plot unfurls in a grand bungalow in the silent outskirts of Goa city, inside lives Mr.Ethan Mascarenhas (Hrithik Roshan), a former great magician, now quadriplegic for 14 long years. Since then he has been looked after by his nurse Sophiya (Aishwarya Rai Bachchan). An author of his own league, a RJ who teaches values of life and infuses inspiration in the minds of people who have nearly lose faith (and of course plays great songs on radio) Ethan still is not happy with his life, so urges his lawyer friend Devyani (Shernaz Patel) to get him the right to die in dignity from court.
Eventually, his plea gets rejected by court whilst Sophiya wins her case in legal separation from her casanova husband. The protagonists confess their love for each other and decide to marry on the penultimate day of Ethan’s life.
Now to the question hour, how is Ethan going to end his life? It highly rivets me. What if he made a U-turn on the next day? The probability is far too less, but its still there. Maybe, Sanjay Leela Bhansali has a sequel in his mind. :P
The acting department did a fine job and it is Aishwarya who shines all the way in the movie, thanks to a perfectly written role. Hrithik is equally good but his role is marred by a shoddily-written script with holes as big the size of craters. I could not see an extreme urge in Ethan to fight his case out, some screen time is simply wasted by the director showing Ethan taking radio votes to crystallise his opinion. The plot is banal as it doesn’t convincingly answer as to why Ethan wishes for death other than his lawyer parroting an argument that can even be said by a 10 year old. Given the serious subject of euthanasia, the treatment of script must be serious enough to drive home the point of the issue to the audience. Guzaarish lacks punch dialogues, neither it has memorable quotes on life by any of the characters present (since, that forms the plot).
A word about music and melody in Guzaarish, SLB has got a decent start as debut music director (also not to forget his “Yoon Shabnami” from Saawariya). The song ‘Udi’ rendered by Sunidhi Chauhan rocks with some Spanish flavour blend with however, run-of-the-mill Bollywood tune. The soundtrack by KK is a flop, interestingly it is Shail Hada who brings life into the melody "Tera Zikr" with his totally rocking vocal, let alone the stunning choreography perfected by Hrithik, the magician and Monikangana Dutta.
Whatever be it, I can’t stop myself from saying that the lose script of Guzaarish is almost a perfect lift of Mar Adentro, a 2004-Academy award winning Spanish movie that I had always loved to review some day. Watch Mar Adentro (The Sea Inside) instead; jam-packed with stunning visuals, perfect cast (though this paraplegic hero is not a hunk like Hrithik) and most importantly powerful dialogues on values of life, this movie just doesn’t get off your head so soon. Oops, this post is supposed to be a review on Guzaarish!
