SAAWAN – SUBSTANDARD FARE

Rating:- *

The first drawback of the film is its very title. It gives the inevitable impression that it has something to do with rainy season. But it is far removed from that. The film has a novel theme.It is about a person who predicts events, accidents and what have you. He's a modern-day Nostradamus.

The film starts off as a love story in which the hero and heroine have a rollicking time romancing in Sun City till the desi Nostradamus enters the frame.

He tells the heroine that she'd die two days later. Understandably, the young lady is shattered.

On the fateful day, the lady is (mistakenly) shot by the cops outside a shopping mall and dies. The hero blames Nostradamus for it, breaks into his house, bashes him black and blue and Nostradamus dies.

Thanks to an amateurship, by the time the story reaches the finale, you've already lost interest in the goings-on.

Frankly, Saawan Kumar isn't in form this time. Music is another sore point. Aadesh Shrivastava's music is uninspiring and barring the title track, the remaining tracks are plain monotonous. Cinematography [Rajendra Prasad] is eye-filling, especially the locales of Sun City and Dubai.

Salman Khan's role and performance are both strictly average. Kapil doesn't get any scope to display histrionics, but he does the conventional hero's part with ease. Saloni gets more footage and she does leave an impression. Prem Chopra and Ranjeet have miniscule roles.

On the whole, the film is a sub-standard fare from Sawan Kumar who has given quite a few intesesting and hit films in the past.