Wednesday, February 15, 2017

Tamasha (2015)


Before I watched the movie, I was all set to open this review with a snarky comment about the trailer’s “why always the same story?” tagline. Because YJHD made buckets of money and boy does the press get a lot of mileage out of promos with Deepika and Ranbir, that’s why. But it’s actually kind of a weird movie. Our protagonist, Ved, is a boy obsessed with story. He seeks it out, learns of its universality, and tries to make his life one as well. He (Ranbir Kapoor) meets Tara (Deepika Padukone) on vacation in Corsica, and Ved thinks it would be a great story to go a bit nutty together and make up lies about themselves so they live it up for a week, promising never to see each other again.