Return of 'Perfection Personified' Prem

Release date- 12'th November 2015

One Word which describes the film - Melodrama

Most Overrated Dialogue - 'Main wapas aa gaya, main wapas aa gaya.' 

Genre- Romance/ Drama 

Music-Sanjoy Chowdhury, Himesh Reshammiya

Producer-Ajit Kumar Barjatya, Kamal Kumar Barjatya

• Rajkumar Barjatya
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Story & Screenplay- Sooraj R. Barjatya

Direction -Sooraj R. Barjatya

Cast- Salman Khan, Sonam Kapoor, Neil Nitin Mukesh

• Anupam Kher, Deepak Dobriyal, Swara Bhaska, Armaan Kohli

Budget- 80-90 Crores

Prem Ratan Dhan Payo is out and out a typical Sooraj Barjatya film which simply proves the wisdom behind this dialogue ,'Har film ka ek hi hero hota hai..director.' In 26 years Sooraj Barjatya has directed just 6 films and except Main Prem Ki Diwani Hoon (2003), all have been blockbusters. All his films have a central character called 'Prem' who is very idealistic and can not hurt anyone even in his dreams. Prem is perfection personified.

Salman Khan and Sonam Kapoor sounded like a very odd pair from start but when you see them on screen you won't mind them as the film is not about their love, it's about family and the perfect Prem keeps reminding you throughout the film that, 'lucky hai wo log jinke pas family hai.'

If instead of Salman Khan, Sooraj Barjatya had casted anyone else the film would have not have been able to post such great collections as the audience has become very critical these days which can be seen from the poor box office collections of Shaandaar, Jazbaa , Phantom and Katti Batti.

Salman Khan combined with the 5 days Diwali holidays and no other major release

 helped the film to collect 100 crores in just 3 days despite bad reviews and word of mouth.

The film has a 80's-90's kind of simple plot where from the start everyone including the actors and audiences know who is good and who is bad. The events just keep unfolding at a slow pace without any thrill or drama. The music is ordinary.

Sonam Kapoor in her designer dresses and heavy jewellery designed by her mother Sunita Kapoor looks beautiful and keeps  smiling and dancing on the director's tunes.

Armaan Kohli was last seen in Big Boss 7. Though he didn't win the show and later
even parted ways with his true love Tanisha he got a major role in Salman's film. He and Neil Nitin Mukesh get many scenes to show their potential but  they remain expressionless throughout.

Anupam Kher has a very simple role and gets to say dialogues which he could say even in his sleep. 

Amrita Rao was offered to play the role of Prem's sister which she refused and it was then offered to Swara Bhasker. Her role is also very simple and when she is not chopping vegetables she also gets to dress up and dance with other characters.

The only thing which is not simple in the film are it's grand sets which look straight out of either Sanjay Leela Bhansali's  or Karan Johar's films. We wonder in which part of India are these huge palaces present where princess eat kachoris packed in Haldiram's boxes and princes order electronic gadgets from Chroma. 

In a line if Salman Khan's Jai Raam ji ki said at the start of the film has the power to make the film rise above all bad word of mouth and become a blockbuster just think what can it do for you if you utter it daily.

One time watch. Can be seen when is premiered on TV.