Review Of Nanhe Jaisalmer

Overall Rating:***
Cast Performance:*****
Sound Track:**
Cinematography:****

Love this little friend!

Imagination’s power is more powerful than you can imagine.
Human mind’s ability to dream and chase his dream successfully is always fascinating.But what makes one to press the start button for this chase? Not every dreamer chases and attains their dream.Is it love? Pain? Happiness?Courage to Adventure ? While it is important to identify our goals, dreams and ambitions, it is also important to apply the correct starter which gives the power to start and push us to a higher level, from where we can move above easily.

The movie start with a scene where the booker prize winner Vikram Singh ( Vatal Sheth ) autograph’s his prize winning book Nanhe Jasalmer and people waiting from early morning to get the author’s signature.The story is presented as the author tells the story of the book to a billboard boy.

Nanhe (Master Dwij Yadav ) is a 10 year old boy in a village in Rajastan called Jaisalmer, whose father abandoned him, his mother ( Pratiksha Lonkar ) and sister since the mother was illiterate. They had a camel Raja which helped them to survive. The mother educated her daughter where the small Nanhe took over the family’s responsibility at the age of 6.He moves around with the camel, Raja who is like a member in the family. He now is a famous tour guide in the village. He knows 4 foreign languages, which he studied from tourists.Still he is illiterate.His mother and a local teacher, push Nanhe to start his education which he refused, stating people are learning to earn their livelihood and if I am earning without education, why I need to learn?

Nanhe is a crazy fan of Bobby Deol.He holds a photograph from a film, in a shot Bobby Deol holds him in his hands (when he was just 4) and called him as ’Dost’. He believes that Bobby Deol is his friend and it is his duty to protect him, promote all his films and learn all news about him. If a Bobby Deol movie is coming to Jaisalmer, He make sure that he see the movie from the first row along with his friends (All old people, like Sharat Saxena) and after the movie he makes sure that he leaves his comments along with news from the family to Bobby Deol. The life was going on smoothly.In a day the news came in News paper that Bobby Deol is coming to shoot in Jaisalmer and the boy was so over thrilled and he made his sister to read the news till both of them fell asleep. Next day, while Nanhe was coming back after a Safari, a car was sanded in desert.Nanhe helped to bring pull the car out and when the driver asked his name, he said Nanhe and from the Car, none other than Bobby Deol come out and the story of nahe Jaisaler, his change, progress and dreams begins.

Samir Karnik, the writer director need more than an applaud for his fine story and its nice presentation.The story is simply good.The director tells it in fine manner. The climax however was very much predictable, where the scenes before the climax were surprising.

Dwij Yadav is Excellent. The story is entirely concentrating on Nanhe’s character and Dwij yadav lived the character to have a long stay in the audience mind. Bobby Deol is as good as he is. Vathal Sheth looked good, but less action in his face. Pratiksha Lonkar did a fine job so is the girl who played the role of Nanhe’s sister. Sharat Saxena was funny in his small role as a drunkard. All in all, the director succeeded in extracting almost best from his caste.

Cinematography by Binod Pardhan was brilliant.The beauty of Rajastan was traced to the screen with light and colour.The long deserts, the houses and the living of people…all brilliantly caught into films.A short shot of the wheat fields was simply superb.Scenes like Nanhe learn that Bobby Deol is coming to his village is top class…

Music is pretty average, but the title song was above average and suites the film most.There were 2 more average songs and 2 avoidable songs were part of the movie. However, the background music was extra brilliant.Choreography for the title song and for the marriage song were good.

When a good scene with a fine performance, excellent cinematography with good music background and emotion to support…what you will call it? The movie has at least 4 or 5 such scenes which stay with our mind for long.

The movie, we can describe as a children’s movie.Intend to project the value of education, friendship, responsibility and ambition.It may be a good idea to show the movie to schools of various states and to villages where illiteracy still prevails. The movie is capable to pass to certain people, but to who really needs.

In general perspective, it is a movie which entertains with the sheer power of story and performance.So, if you are one who looks for a good story irrespective of its glamour, action or top sets, you can watch it.If you are a person who goes for movies alone and go to see a movie irrespective of its box office fate, I think this movie is yours.Your children too may like the movie, since it is made for them.I liked the movie for sure.