All audience reviews of Tamasha

Tamasha is one of its kind films. The character of Ved (Ranbir Kapoor) is a complicated and intensely complex one. He works at a 9-5 job and leads a normal, conventional life until he meets Tara (Deepika Padukone).
Tara is the one who makes him realise who he really is and what he is meant to be. She brings out the rebel in him. After his encounter with Tara, Ved is not the same. He is frustrated with his boring lifestyle and is desperate to break the barriers and fly. At one point, he faces a series of complexed emotions and is unable to deal with his mental state. But he overcomes it all and sets himself free.
For me, Tamasha is Ranbir Kapoor’s best film to date. The kind of acting skills he has shown in the film is phenomenal. The way he depicts his character’s uneasiness, helplessness and desperation is simply amazing. The film is a step towards breaking social conventions and setting yourself free and doing what your heart wants. It has brought a revolution in the Hindi cinema and is certainly a must watch! less

A film which dwells on finding your inner self which gets lost in fulfilling the obligations of life and society, Tamasha is a movie which will remain with you long after you’ve seen it.
Ved (Ranbir Kapoor) and Tara (Deepika Padukone) meets each other in Corsica while they are solo- tripping. They promise to only lie to each and retain their fake identities while they are vacationing in Corsica. Together, they set the house on fire. They promised to not fall in love and go on their own ways after the trip. But cupid strikes Tara after returning from the trip. Even four years after the trip, she still yearns for Ved. She couldn’t forget the free spirited man she met in Corsica. They once again rekindle their romance. But Tara is confused to see this robotic machine in front of her in the body of the man she met four years ago. What happens next forms the movie.
Imtiaz Ali always deals with issues of existential crisis and finding oneself, Tamasha is one of them. The title and the scenes of theatre in the movie are clearly the metaphors of life which is nothing less than a spectacle. Shakespeare’s “The world’s a stage and all the men and women merely players” fits well here.
Ved finds himself as a part of this big Tamasha in which he has a certain assigned role to play. He conforms to the societal expectations and becomes no less than a robotic machine.
Tara, on the other hand is hell bent on bringing out the real Ved out of this masquerade.
The film is primarily about Ved and Ranbir Kapoor with his intense performance nail the character, figuratively.
But, it would be unfair to say that Tara had not much to do. Tara is a character of great importance, even if she is given less screen time.
Ranbir and Deepika’s Jodi work wonders for the film. Together, they ace the role of Ved and Tara. The angst and passion visible on their face is sure to move the viewers. It can clearly be seen in the soulful song sung by Alka Yagnik and Arijit Singh, “Agar Tum Saath ho”. They give meaning to each lyric of the song beautifully.
The film has some groovy numbers too. Matargashti is one such song. A big part of the film is shot in the picturesque location of Corsica keeping up with Imtiaz’s love for showing travel in his movies.
All in all, Tamasha is a movie not many will understand but the one who do will never forget it for it will leave an impact on their conscience. less

Imtiaz ali contempory take on the creative people is quite an apealling project. The man who made Jab we met and rockstar does not surprises that he came up with this theme.



Tamasha about a guy who who wants to a story teller but is stuck in societial conservations.



All the artistic people will get related towards this subject. The film that explores hidden trauma, depression, dreams and ambitions is worth taking. Imtiaz ali direction rambir deepika performance and cinematography and not least A.R.Rehman music is exquisite.



But the screenplay is little predictable and meething of the characters are very chishque.



Overall the film needs to be watched for vision and creativity mind less

A rather inspiring drama revolving around the truth of life, love and the corporate world; Tamasha is one movie that holds the power to change your thoughts about life and work.
With Ranbir Kapoor and Deepika Padukone as the male leads,; the movie is essentially the life story of Ved (Ranbir Kapoor) and portrays his journey of being a typical corporate slave to following an untraditional career, story telling. It also depicts both of their love story which survives and succeeds despite all the destitution they faced. The movie flows in a series of flashbacks and imaginative titles for each phase to come across as artsy and poetic.
One enters this winsome 'Tamasha' with a stimulating and intoxicating meeting of Ved and Tara (Deepika Padukone) in Corsica, where both are accidentally holidaying at the same time. There's French streets, alluring sea side drives, musical parades and an appealing chemistry bubbling up between Ved and Tara in this part of the movie to keep you on your toes. Both are at their spontaneous best in exploring the town and while doing that; are clearly falling for each other. Interestingly enough; they decide not to keep track of each other or have any contact with each other as, apparently, what happens between them on the holiday ends with the holiday itself. This is where it can be pointed out that the script is well written in terms of keeping the audience glued to the storyline and also curious as to what is going to happen next.
Further on in the movie, we see how Tara continues on with her life which is shown as slow and agonizing which in turn shows how deep inside she still is thinking about her profound admiration for her long lost friend and lover, Ved.
The gripping music of the movie; as composed by the one and only AR Rahman; is bonafide, new age and very well-fitting to the overall theme and depiction.
Ved, on the other hand is a complete opposite of what he was in Corsica: he's become something that he isn't. He's a boring workaholic now who lives a typical life: not the man who Tara fell for.
Four years pass and soon enough, Tara and Ved bump into each other at a random cafeteria and life brings them on the same page once again. The fault in their 'taras'? Yes sure.
Their love flourishes once again in this now-set-in-urban romance.
Shown as highly typical and monotonous, both are living the 'ideal' life of repetitiveness and mediocrity. In spite of that, the audience is swayed into believing that this is where it ends as everything looks so sickly perfect but is actually not, basically the entire essence of the movie.
Everything is going proper until one day, Ved proposes to Tara for marriage and she ruminatively refuses; telling him how he's not the Ved she met first in Corsica anymore.
Life, hereon, starts to take a toll on Ved. His mind is twisted and he can't understand why, even after doing so much and finally having become the 'ideal man', he is unaccepted by his own lover. Excellently played by Ranbir Kapoor, Ved starts to lose track of things, life and mind. Every scene is highly symbolic, meaningful and relatable. The flashbacks here show how Ved had been struggling all his life trying to match the level of the perfect urban man, how he was at his original best in Corsica with initially a stranger, Tara and how, now he is something which is everything but his true self. This part of the movie is evolving, emotional and will take the watcher on a journey of an invoked thinking about the self. Ved has aching issues with himself, Tara and everyone around him. He starts to become a mad-man. He's fired from his job for misbehaving with his boss, he talks as if his mind is on a clumsy fire and deep inside he craves both Tara and his true self back. He cannot figure out what to do and how to go about his hollow life now.
He roams around on the streets and is shown talking to a specific auto driver who tends to invoke him into thinking about his true passion. This part of the movie is immensely heart touching. He's also shown telling his own story, in his corporate clothes, with all of his passion and skills to a bunch of people his age on a shady street at night. The people are mostly corporate workers and find Ved's storytelling extremely amusing and his story, fairly relatable.
Finally, indecisive about his life now, Ved puts a foot forward to facing his family in Shimla which consists of his strict father and an emotional and soft mother.
He braves his own self and describes to them his life's situation in the form of a story. He also visits the story teller who used to fascinate him as a kid and his mind finally seems to have found out a way. The cinematography in all the scenes set in Shimla is the perfect mix of absurdly artistic and pragmatic in a way.
Things seem to be very much clear to Ved now and after such a long period of struggle, he can see the way at last.
Towards the end, Ved becomes an established story teller and is now a free-spirited man who loves his uncertain and creative work. He also finds Tara and asks her, once again, to marry him as he owes all his life and passion to her alone.
All in all, Tamasha is just the movie an artist or a creative thinker needs in life to understand how we have only one life and we need to essentially do what we love in order to love what we do. But again, though it is a good thing, the same thing is also a limiting factor for the movie. Not all people will seem to like it and understand it the same way certain parts of the population would.
Moreover, Deepika's character in the movie, in contrast to Ranbir's character, is completely stagnant and shows no progress. This part about the movie can be called somewhat anti-feminist.
All in all, though, director Imtiaz Ali has done a blissful job with one of his best works till date, Tamasha, while keeping up with his accustomed job of delivering a worthwhile story to his much admiral audience. less

- An Exceptionally brilliant movie!
It is so good that it won't be understood by most of the ppl :p
But a few will LOVE it, simply cos they were able to understand & relate.

HOTI RET HAI, LAGTA PANI HAI :)
Few things in life leave you speechless n just make you feel..this is just that (just like rockstar...though not as good).
Ranbir Kapoor once again has given an awesomax performance, just loved the dialogues n the narration style of the movie, so similar to theatre. Hats off to Imtiaz Ali or may be 'shashtang pranam' (:p) will be better for his understanding of the complex human emotions & their beautiful portray, onscreen!
This movie has put forth brilliantly, what has always been my dilemma (still is) and am sure, for most of the other ppl. as well.
In short, it, once again, tells you to follow your heart!
KIS RANG KA DIL HAI TERA, KYA CHAHTA HAI..
I can go on & on, but would just like to say...
Its a must watch (but its not meant for everyone..a complex one, so decide accordingly)
(Guess, there will be only two sets of people - those who hate it & those who love it). less