Mirzya Movie Review

Plot: Director Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra & Writer Gulzar have not deviated "much" from the original folklore of Mirza-Saheba. Mirzya-Saheba study together, fate keeps them apart on becoming adults, they re-unite only to face the Bollywood villains who are against their bachpan ka pyaar. Along with this runs a parrallel Mirzya-Saheba original folklore featuring Harshvardhan and Saiyami.

The Good:
1. The locations: Jodhpur and Leh
2. Cinematography by Pawel Dyllus
3. The Music by Shankar-Ehsan-Loy
4. Saiyami Kher - She is fresh and she "can" act. In fact she gets to speak more than Harshvardhan kapoor and she delivers her dialogue with such ease as if she has been in the industry for quite some time now. She may not be conventionally beautiful - Bollywood style (like Ash, Katrina or Deepika), but she has that Miss Universe type queenly auro to her. She is an improvised version of India's first 'I Am She' winner chosen by Sushmita Sen - Ushoshi Sengupta.
5. Anuj Choudhry as Karan and Anjali Patil as Zeenat evoke some sympathy.

The Bad:
1. Harshvardhan Kapoor: Expectations were high and he does a fairly decent job but we don't wanna settle with just a "decent" job from a star kid. He appears to be very reserved, may be his role demanded him to be like that, but there was something missing in him. We hope he gets more polished with his next films.
2. Pace: The movie is extremely slow paced.
3. The Fake CGI: The fake desert cat or whatever it was looked like a silly computer generated graphic, the fireballs in Leh looked abysmally fake.
4. We didn't mind the trailer in SlowMo but when the entire movie is in Slow Motion, it becomes annoying.
 

Overall Rating: 2 on 5. Watch it for the songs and cinematography. This Mirzya misses the target.