3 walls gets only 3 stars. Review on 3 Deewarein

Well.... ''3 walls get 3 stars''should be the title!! or so I thought.

i was quite happy at the enthusiasts all of who had given nothing less than 4 stars to this movie. and that most of them have given a full to it.

i might have given 1/2 to this good movie.. but? no. so it ends up with (as there is no 1/2. or may be 1/4, coz even if 1/2 had been there I guess I might have chosen only 3 stars as well)

so is this a classic ??????????

sadly the answer is no. the movie actually begins in one way and (as the promos told us) hides us a secret (''one truth'')....

i was waitin for the release of this movie (after all, it was from kukunoor and the promos were excellent) ...

but once I started watching the first half I totally forgot abt the ''one truth'', coz tht was not what the movie was abt until the final sequences.....

as the movie progresses like a engrossing humane-look at jailbirds, with the guilty jaggu, nagya hoping for ''his satyameva jayate'' to be true, and ishaan as a carefree man loving his free life ....

the movie is damn interesting... so are jaggu's poems.....

ishaan remembering suddenly juhi's face at the courtroom is not credible, but still gives a good surprise ... here one would think tht juhi would give a shawshank-type philosophy or some poetic end to the movie as we do know tht she had been at the courtroom for ishaan's conviction and maybe for the other two too ..

the movie stops being like shawshank redemption (since I saw quite a few here mentionin it) there, and suddenly in the final 20 min rushes to find the one truth which seems like a fantasy...

then we come to know juhi, after all, is the same-old ............. ( ok fine. I wont reveal it) but how the other two (which 2? I wont tell, for reader's sake of watching the movie)get easily freed??

can the court be easily convinced by one person's testimony which appears more like a fairy tale ?

kukunoor attempts at a serious movie (his previous were light-hearted, but good ones too!!!) with great flair in the first 3/4 of the movie.

but later, he seems to have forgotten what he was inspired from?

shawshank redemption or sixth sense ?

(which exactly is the question in our mind too.)

and he hurries up for revealing the ''one truth'' as promised in a very cliche-married-with-fantasy end.

and one ll be pretty disappointed at the end when the later part is too detached from the first half was and ends up like a whodunnit-type movie.

naseeruddin shah was excellent as ishaan.

the rest of the cast was very good.

jail scenes were handled with great style.

the characterisations were also good. BUT ......

!@$%^& THOSE WHO DINT SEE THE MOVIE STOP HERE *()_+

but, jaggu seems more to be ''hypocritically'' guilty, than actually guilty. (what difference does tht make is an interesting philosophical question. after all ''the world's a stage and we all are ACTORS'') coz he has stabbed his dead wife, without knowing that of course. and he's guilty abt his ''killing'' act. later when he knows that he hasn't killed his wife, but she was already killed by ishaan, we see him happily getting out along with nagya and chandrika... after all he had a brutal instinct of killin his wife, and if poor ishaan had not pushed her downstairs, he wud have killed her. though one may argue tht his wife's cry and plea wud have stopped him from killing her.)

ishaan appears to be rather a very pitiable character than a killer who in a very bad day had to kill 3 people (in fact 5, incl the two yet-to-be-borns). juhi chawla as the one seeking revenge for her sister's death is good. but her cause and the reason y she comes a docu-filmmaker (i.e., the revenge part) is too big a cliche and we ve seen in at least a dozen movies.