Movies We've Watched- GUZAARISH

I was looking forward to watching the movie Guzarish despite its negative reviews. Some told me it was boring, some told me it was depressing. But I made it a point to watch it because its a Hrithik film and he doesnt do so many movies yaerly so his releases are always waited for eagerly. Safe to say Guzarish and Hrithik did not dissappoint at all. To an extent even Aish was tolerable ( I am not a fan of her) and the surprise package was Aditya Kapoor. The platform on which the film is based on is very simple but how it unfolds is what makes the movie rise above its story.

THE PLOT

A quadriplegic, confined to his bed for many years, has a chhoti si guzaarish : he wants to be allowed to end his life. That’s the thrust of Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s new film. Ethan Mascarenhas (Roshan), once the world’s best magician, now hopelessly infirm, calls it “euthanasia”. But euthanasia by any other name, regardless of smart puns, is not permissible — not by the courts, not by the church, and not by the legions of his fans. Ethan faces a lifetime of suffering, as he withers slowly and painfully away.

The film tells the story of Ethan Mascarenhas (Hrithik), a bed-ridden, wheelchair-bound quadriplegic who used to be a magician once but has spent the last 14 years of his life as a breathing vegetable confined within the musty walls of a run-down villa somewhere in the rain-soaked Goa. Sophia, (Aishwarya Rai) his nurse for 12 years, bathes him, feeds him, brushes his teeth, scratches his nose when he’s itchy, and also bears his tantrums. Ethan’s only connect with the outside world is his radio show ‘Hello Zindagi’ which he jockeys.

Ironically, the man who tells others to embrace life seeks to end his own. He fights a legal case to be allowed euthanasia, or mercy killing, to end his long suffering. Ironically again, the people who stand beside him willy-nilly in this struggle are the ones who love him the most - his lawyer friend Devyani (Shernaz Patel), his doctor (Suhel Seth), his apprentice (Aditya Roy Kapoor), his mother (Nafisa Ali), his former lover and assistant (Monikangana Dutta) and, last but not the least, Sophia, whom Ethan regards as “more than a friend, lover and even wife”.

But the question is - will the court go against the constitution and grant Ethan his wish, his guzaarish?

When I put in the DVD and hit the play button I expected a tear jerking depressing movie in which I will have to use loads of tissue paper to wipe my crying eyes but what unfolded beyond me was a movie i cd not stop watching halfway as I wanted to see how it ended. I wanted to see how Ethan's suffering would end. would the courts relent and grant him his Guzarish?

Those who have watched it, U know how it ends. Those who haven't not gonna spoil it for you. Go watch the movie!