Movie Review : Bajirao Mastani

Bajirao Mastani depicts the 18th-century Maratha Peshwa Bajirao Ballal Bhat's unprecedented love story who fought unbeaten 40 battles against the Mughals with an aim to establish unanimous Maratha Kingdom rule over the entire landscape of India.

Talking about the first half of the movie:

The movie begins at Bajirao's coronation as the Peshwa only after he proves his war and mind skills infront of the entire darbar.


He then goes on war where he encounters Mastani (Deepika Padukone), who was there to ask Bajirao for help in order to save the kingdom of Bundelkhand.

Once Bajirao is convinced,he agrees to fight the war which they subsequently win.


It is after  the victory when Bajirao stays at Bundelkhand that the proximity between bajirao and mastaani grows and they fall in love.
Bajirao returns Pune to his wife Kashibai unaware that Mastaani too later came to pune, the  reason for which is unknown to Bajirao.
The first half ends at the revelation of Bajirao and mastaani's secret relationship to Radhebai (Tanvi Azmi) and Kashibai (Priyanka Chopra).

Verdict of the first half: the first half was slow paced as it takes time for all the characters to develop the story.
The Song malhaari could have been avoided as it simply extends the screen time.

Second half:
The Second half revolves around the complicated relationship of Kashibai,Bajirao and Mastaani.
The Second half depicts the struggle of Bajirao to render equal rights to Mastaani as that of Kashibai.
The scenes between Kashibai and Mastaani makes one think of the emotions a woman has to deal with,in a relationship as fragile as that of a husband,wife and his lover.

The movie aims to establish that love has no religion in the backdrop of the hindu-muslim union of love.

The ending of the movie was way to dramatic to establish the union of Bajirao and Mastaani.


Verdict of the Second half:This half is an emotional roller coaster.


Overall verdict of the movie:
This movie is definitely one of the finest works of Ranveer Singh- his screen presence,his dialogue delivery in marathi dialect,his aggression and his passion for mastani will surely make you appreciate him.

Priyanka Chopra undoubtedly makes a mark in the heart's of the audience, stirring their emotional quotients.

DeepikaPadulkone: this time Deepika has gone unconventional when it comes to the kind of role she has portrayed on screen.She surely did justice to explain the plight of a mistress to the king.

The music of the film though beautifully arranged,fails to leave an impact at the audience.


You wouldn't remember any song once you leave the theaters.

Ranveer Singh steals the show in this Sanjay Leela Bhansaali,Magnum Opus.

I feel a little too much

How do I write all that I feel?
How do I not feel all that I feel?
A million emotions in a minute is how  I feel. 
The traffic of my thoughts is so overwhelming that it makes me go blank. 

You can deal with your emotions and your feelings if they come one at a time but how would you deal with it if it comes all at once?

In the blink of an eye the feelings change and before I realize the page gets turned and a new chapter a new emotion surfaces. 

Am I too slow or the world too fast?
 ..Is it just me who feels a little too much of everything?

A little too much of happiness when I am happy,happy enough that tears of happiness flow down my cheeks,
A little too much of gloom when sad, sad as much as to fall into deep silence 
A little too much of hurt when I care a lot but no one appreciates my care
A little too much of thinking when I cant figure out what's going on 
A little too much of pause when I don't understand how things are turning out to be 
A little too much of coy when with new people
And A little too much of mischief when with the ones I know well.

Basically I feel a little too much of every little thing, a little too much of every big thing.
 Yes I feel a little too much of everything but that's a little to much to know about me.
It's like knowing what hurts me the most and choosing the sharpest weapon to hurt me at my weak!

A lot of times, I do wonder as to why too many people don't think as much as I do or why I don't think as less as them. 
But I have never been able to come up with an answer except the anecdote that, this is how people are and this is how I am .
 Accept it let go and move on. 

But off late this is one thing which really makes me restless.

Feeling a little too much is not bad because at every point in time you know what affects you the most and where, is it your heart or your brain.

One of the most disturbing thoughts I have is how when people say a certain thing is going to last for forever or always , the life of such forever is always short?
People would say they would be with you always and forever and probably their forever and always will end tomorrow.Wow! how about that?

When I care ,I care a little too much. Every little activity the good, the bad, the happy, the sad would affect me in way which would bring me face palm with a greater reality about myself.


How is it that at all points in time  I feel a little too much about everything that happens around me or  with me , for good, for bad- everything for me is a potential thought.

 While, that can be the case for many of you but in my case even after being able to understand that how I feel a about a particular thing or a person the feeling to control this feeling, the feeling to get over these overwhelming emotions, the feeling to get over and out of it all, the feeling to master my feelings, sails through me but never allows me to drown enough to either let these feelings die or to get over the fear of drowning in this never ending sea of emotions .

How is it that one feeling, one thought, one moment of your life can stick with you for so long that you don't even remember how long you have been feeling this way?

How is it that this topic of dealing with emotions has no end?
Maybe because it's like the air we breathe, tiny dust particles you inhale-exhale, you don't see them unless under the sunlight, yet you just feel and most importantly you cant do without.
That's exactly how feelings are.

Yes , I feel ,I feel a little too much.

Yet Again....

So, 
she fell in love again, with yet another wrong guy at yet another wrong time , yet another wrong place.
She knew it was all wrong but hey is there any right or wrong in love ? Err no.. Right..!

Love just happens they say.

But the one thing she knew this time was this love won't last, they were not meant to be they can never be!
Yet  knowing this truth she couldn't help but bother about the high and low tides of her emotions day in and day out!

All she knew was she liked him. 
She liked the way he cared for her. 
She liked the way he was there for her always.
 She felt so good when out of all the people in the room he would choose to sit by her. 
She loved the way he cheered her up always, Always!

She liked him with all her heart <3

'One sided love is not love!', she often told herself. 

She thought to herself she wouldn't run away from this 

She chose to face it boldly

She chose to accept what she felt .

She has the right to feel what she felt.

She has the right to acknowledge what she feels. 

But she also chose to keep it to herself.

 Spilling the beans wouldn't have made much difference.
Rather she would have been back to the storm she survived a while ago. 

So,
 she fell in love again, with yet another wrong guy at yet another wrong time , yet another wrong place.

And she decided to let him go!
Yes,she let him go.