Saare Jahaan Se Mehnga Movie Reviews

After making the ' Obama' feel the heat of the recession beat by their critically acclaimed 'Phas Gaye Re Obama' the producers of 'Phas Gaye Re Obama' Ashok Pandey's Revel Films return with a 'dhoti' budget 'Saare Jahaan Se Mehnga' to unbutton the 'pantaloon' of the prevailing price systems of Hindustan. Hilarious. You can call them nuts in the way the characters tame the price monster in the film.. this couldn,t be the solution to curb

Tapping into the middle class' increasing frustration over rapid inflation, 'Saare Jahaan Se Mehnga', directed by debutant Anshul Sharma, is a well-intentioned satire constructed around a promising premise. But the film's writers fail to build on their clever central idea, and ultimately deliver an undercooked script that lacks the consistent wit of 2010's 'Phas Gaye Re Obama', that tongue-in-cheek take on recession, set in the world of UP gangsters

A song from Aamir Khan's comic satire PEEPLI [LIVE] is extremely relevant two years after its release: "Sakhi saiyaan toh khoob hi kamaat hai, Mehangai daayan khaye jaat hai..." The common man's fight against spiraling prices of household items [also corruption] is legendary by now. But the aam aadmi continues to face the inflation audaciously, maintaining a smile under most unpleasant circumstances. SAARE JAHAAN SE MEHNGA

A cycle repairman attends to a client while speaking on a mic, addressing a sundry audience of jobless locals, informing them about the 24 lakh crore illegally earned rupees sitting in Swiss Banks. This is a number his audience cannot even fathom. Lakh or Crore, they ask. The repairman continues his tirade against black money while pumping a tire, and says that should that wealth return to its rightful owners, the citizens of India, each person

People like us like to go and on about inflation and rising costs, but the chatter is confined to newspaper headlines, and squiggly TV graphics. Poverty as a central theme has been pushed so far from our flashy multiplex obsessed times, that it is almost like encountering an alien creature when it raises its head in a film. Especially when it is done with such sincerity as it is in Saare Jahaan Se Mehenga, a film that reminds us how crushing the spiraling bhaav

The film has some poignant moments, especially when the old father fears humiliation if they’re caught and Puttan speaking his heart out on how inflation affects the middle class. We however wish there was no love track that involves Gopal. The film also becomes a tad theatrical and preachy in portions. Performance-wise, the film stays flawless.

The film has been written zippily by people who know this world. It looks and feels authentic, minus exaggeration. And the actors look as if they belong.

Satire, they say, is the toughest of all cinematic genres. Bollywood has rarely peddled the art of mixing comment with humour in all these years since Jaane Bhi Do Yaaron. However, a clutch of recent hits such Phas Gaye Re Obama and Peepli Live at the crossover box-office has triggered of a creative frenzy. Saare Jahaan Se Mehnga tries tackling the twin menace of inflation and price rise in a comic vein. At the core of debutant director

Thankfully, some films do come up every now and then to highlight it. However, very few try to provide a solution. Saare Jahaan Se Mehnga is definitely one of them. But as far as the effectiveness of that remedy is concerned, the whole project falters, thanks to weaker subplots. In other words, it doesn’t accomplish what Peepli [Live] could. Set in northern India, the film revolves around a lower middle-class family. Money is a constant issue

One and a half star from me for this extraordinary waste of time and energy. Those are two hours of my life I’m never getting back.