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  • 2007
  • PG
  • Columbia Pictures
  • 2 h 22 m
  • 2007
  • PG
  • Columbia Pictures
  • 2 h 22 m

Summary Saawariya is a timeless story of two young, star-crossed lovers whose passions almost consume their will to the brink of self-destruction. In this eternal ode to romance stand two lonely souls whose childlike innocence and candor only obscures their inner turmoil, anger, anxiety, and desperate longing for love. An artist, free spirit, id...

Directed By: Sanjay Leela Bhansali

Written By: Fyodor Dostoevsky, Prakash Kapadia, Vibhu Puri, Shailey Sharma, Sanjay Leela Bhansali

  • 2007
  • PG
  • Columbia Pictures
  • 2 h 22 m
  • 2007
  • PG
  • Columbia Pictures
  • 2 h 22 m
Saawariya
Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 6 Critic Reviews
44
User Score Mixed or Average Based on 13 User Ratings
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Summary Saawariya is a timeless story of two young, star-crossed lovers whose passions almost consume their will to the brink of self-destruction. In this eternal ode to romance stand two lonely souls whose childlike innocence and candor only obscures their inner turmoil, anger, anxiety, and desperate longing for love. An artist, free spirit, id...

Directed By: Sanjay Leela Bhansali

Written By: Fyodor Dostoevsky, Prakash Kapadia, Vibhu Puri, Shailey Sharma, Sanjay Leela Bhansali

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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83% Mixed
5 Reviews
17% Negative
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Mixed or Average Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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83% Mixed
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17% Negative
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A really small movie done up in a big, moody package, Saawariya entices, fitfully springs to life but finally outstays its welcome by a good half-hour.
By Derek Elley FULL REVIEW
60
The experience is visually enchanting, cloyingly sweet, at once utterly chaste and insanely erotic, and finally exhausting. Aficionados will not settle for less.
By A.O. Scott FULL REVIEW
50
It's overblown and extravagant business as usual.
By Kirk Honeycutt FULL REVIEW
50
The first full-fledged Indian musical coproduced and distributed by a major Hollywood studio, this fanciful love story takes its unlikely inspiration from Fyodor Dostoevsky's short story "White Nights."
By Maitland McDonagh FULL REVIEW
40
See this movie if you need to get some sleep.
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25
How can it be that a movie as beautiful to look at as Saawariya is so . . . boring?
By V.A. Musetto FULL REVIEW

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4.8
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38% Negative
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Production Company SPE Films, SLB Films Pvt. Ltd.
Release Date Nov 9, 2007
Duration 2 h 22 m
Rating PG
Genres
Tagline When he first fell in love...
Website http://www.saawariyafilm.com/
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Awards

Awards of the International Indian Film Academy
• 2 Wins & 6 Nominations
Filmfare Awards
• 2 Wins & 6 Nominations
Zee Cine Awards
• 2 Wins & 3 Nominations

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