Good to watch. Review on Parineeta

One more movie from Literature classics. Done nicely and can be compared with latest Devdas. The novel has been played with. The timing for the era shown has been modified....I could not understand the rationale behind it.

The Lolita-Shekhar lovemaking sequence (an add-on that may leave the purists questioning its length and contents.....) is done as a smoothly transitional process from friends to life partners childhood pair. Same scene with Sanjay Dutt (in saif's dream)... could have been avoided.

Saif:The hero no. 1 can play jazz on the piano and savour the songs of Elvis Presley, or Rekha (in a thoroughly redundant appearance) breaks into a smouldering jig a la ''Moulin Rouge'' and even plonks herself into a visibly embarrassed Sanjay Dutt's lap. But when he breaks the wall....that was a little longer scene. I thought this was symbolic....as if its breaking the barriers of his own mind and world for that matter.

He was shown too much arrogancy and he never said yes to love.

Good sequences:

The sequences between father-son was short but good. In the end when Saif says, you lost your son...was the best performance of him in this movie.

The Shekhar-Lolita are shown to have a chemistry. Though at times I felt Lolita and Rakish would have made a better couple:-)

To the director's credit, ''Parineeta'' succeeds in giving a twist to the tale...a really ecstatic romantic twist.

Newcomer Vidya Balan looks perfect. She looks refreshing every moment she is on screen. Sometimes she could not bring out the innermost of the charcter she is playing. Yeah...she was surrounded by Raima, Diya... looking this fact...she did a good job.

And Sanjay Dutt who plays Lolita's older benefactor looks mature. He though lstrangely tired(age effect).

''Parineeta'' works as a romantic drama and a period piece.