Exoticalot People are voting emotionally.

GazerRise Fantastic!

SanEat A film with more than the usual spoiler issues. Talking about it in any detail feels akin to handing you a gift-wrapped present and saying, "I hope you like it -- It's a thriller about a diabolical secret experiment."

Scarlet The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

SanJ My title says it all.. There is almost no thought put into the screenplay and script of the movie. After first 30 minutes, the movie's plot simply drags along with events happening around the dates of Babri Masjid, 9-11, Kargil, Godra issues eventually torturing you to death. I sincerely hope that this would Pankaj Kapoor's first and last directorial venture. What a waste of his talent!! Shahid Kapoor is the only saving grace in the film with but even he can't rescue this clichéd, loosely connected storyline. Sonam Kapoor is better showing off her fashion antics at the Ramp rather than forcing herself in the movies.The last 20-30 minutes were so bad that I just simply refused to take it anymore and preferred to walked out to save my sanity and intellect.

bobbysing Despite the fact that I am a die-hard fan of the Living Legend, Pankaj Kapoor from almost two decades, I am sorry that I am unable to praise his first film as a director with the same spirits.The major reason for my dissatisfaction from MAUSAM remains its unexpectedly weak script having such strange sequences of co-incidences where the lead couple, suddenly meet each just like that both within India as well as abroad. And the most bizarre sequence among these was the foreign one (Switzerland), where Shahid is sitting in a train and he discovers Sonam standing there alone in the middle of snowy mountains with her packed bags and she is not even standing on the exact Station platform in a very questionable way. In fact throughout the film, they both keep bumping into each other, as if there is someone truly desperate to write their eternal love story from the sky above. At first they meet in Punjab, then Scotland, Switzerland and then towards the end, finally in Ahmadabad again. Particularly the shift from Punjab to Scotland puzzles the viewer hugely as there is no explanation given for that in the film itself.The second big factor which works against the film is its near 3 hours long duration which is too lengthy considering its unimpressive story build-up. The whole first hour of the film says nothing except showing the culture of Punjab with some childishly executed comical moments focusing on a particular sect. Truly speaking, I never expected Pankaj Kapoor making fun of few SIKH characters in his self-directed film quite purposefully. As I felt the entire first half of the film could have been easily wrapped up in only 30-40 minutes which eventually could have saved it from getting so uninteresting and even boring. Post intermission too the story has nothing new to say other than the usual plot of misconceptions and gap of communication between the loving couple which becomes the only cause of their separation.Frankly, in a romantic film, there is a basic requirement that the viewers must feel the love flowing between its lead couple and everyone should be able to relate with their heartbreaking departure from each other. But here, either the proceedings are too dead slow or they just jump from one point to another which never lets the viewer connect with its emotional storyline in the desired manner. MAUSAM is a pure love story of two innocent characters coming from distinctive religions, that's fine. But the entertainment factor remains completely missing throughout the film, which really becomes painful after a while. Neither the AIR FORCE PLOT insertion (which is only included to bring in the KARGIL event), nor the reference of various communal riots, suffered by different countries is able to pull the viewer in. However, the music does give you some soothing moments in this tiring never ending saga but sadly the soundtrack is again not "anything exceptional" from Pritam. As usual I also felt traces of the song "Om Shanti Om" from KARZ in the track "Tashan Mein Rehna".The film is hugely over-length and tends to go on and on with more deliberately created situations in the plot (within a span of time of a decade), where the lead couple meets repeatedly after many long gaps. And one of these absurd co-incidence comes right in the end where they both meet each other once again in the middle of "Gujarat Godhra Riots" all of a sudden. This weakly written and unconvincing climax is also one of the major drawbacks of the film which tries to bring in Shahid as the only Savior Hero to save the Girl in the end and it simply doesn't justify their decade long love story from any angle.Performance wise, both Shahid and Sonam have really worked hard for their respective roles having various shades and character transformations in the script. Shahid is surely better in the second half and looks like overdoing it in the Punjab part of the film. But Sonam is the real winner here since she perfectly underplays her role, exactly as required by the script. Probably this is her best performance till date, contrary to her fashion Diva image in the Industry. From the rest of the cast only Supriya Pathak and Manoj Pahwa register their presence impressively and Anupam Kher simply remains wasted.In the end, I would like to share, that it strongly seems Pankaj Kapoor had only a one line idea before writing the script of MAUSAM, which must have been "A Love Story written around all the major Communal Hatred Events happened in India and abroad in the last two decades." Since he couldn't start with the Sikh Riots in 1984, so he begins from PUNJAB itself, with his Hero mentioning the BLUE STAR movement and its aftermaths in his dialogues. Talking about the homeless issue of Kashmiri Pandits, he then moves into the Babri Masjid Issue, followed by Mumbai Riots, Twin Tower Attack in America, Kargil Warin India and then ending it all within the Gujarat Riots on a positive note.So, giving an extra star for this brilliant thought alone, I wish to give my best wishes to Pankaj Kapoor for his next directorial project, moving ahead of this forgettable first attempt called MAUSAM.

saad_khi Shahid's dad your film is super bad. It's bad to the extent your wife (Supriya) walks in and out with a weary expression like she told you how bad the script was but you didn't listen to her. The film is all imagery and places which you happen to like and then tried to develop a story around them. Unnecessary scenes and situations: the hero's paralyzed hand. The heroine with cousin and child stopped in Switzerland. And why the heck did Sonam stand on a heap of snow (pseudo artistic or what?) with the baggage instead on a platform? Referring to a cousin's parents one mentions the closest relationship like maasi's son and not her husband's like Sonam tells Harry that Akram is my khaalu's (khaala's hubby) son. Shahid did a better job in Jab we met n Kaminay. And the way he tells the British about their air force plane (nice bird. It flies well) like the sub-continentals taught them to fly. Director dad u did a film (Dharm) in which you were a Pandit priest who adopts a Muslim child so why did you shy from saying out loud that the heroine is Muslim and the hero Sikh (instead of referring to him as a Punjabi)? Muslims, Hindus and Christians are Punjabis too. The date line supers get on one's nerves and makes one wonder why didn't the heroine exchange email addresses in 99? Or the hero didn't even have 2 minutes to call her when he was send for Kargil whereas he yearned for her and missed her earlier? Mr. PK gets stuck in 99 that soon after showing 9/eleven the next dateline is 99 again. There was Gulzar's Mausam with evergreen music and a simple but interesting storyline which did well without any hype, and here is another Mausam (PK couldn't you think of an original title for your first directorial effort?) which I just can't fathom how the producers poured money into. Lots of extra bucks I guess. Less said about the ferris wheel drama at the end: totally atrocious. And Sonam by praising PK as an excellent director you have placed him next to the one who directed Aisha

bollycritic It starts off much better than the useless action garbage Bollywood is shovelling down our throats these days, as season 1 of Mausam presents a simple and carefree love story. But as time passes and our star-crossed lovers continually fail to stay together, the film begins taxing on your nerves. It goes from great, to good, to indifferent and eventually stupid in the span of its almost 3 hour running time. Don't know what Pankaj was thinking but the flight sequence and completely over the top climax were really poor. Maybe someone told the director he needed more current commercial elements, and in succumbing to the same, he did his movie a great disservice. Luckily, both Shahid and Sonam give great performances along with the supporting cast, and the songs by Pritam are too good to ignore. It is a lot better than the countless Readys, Dabanggs, Forces and Bodyguards out there, but that is hardly a compliment.