Stars: Rani Mukherjee, Salman Khan, Ranbir Kapoor, Sonam Kapoor

Director: Sanjay Leela Bhansali

Summary: Gulab is a streetcorner princess haunting the red light district in an expressionistic melange of Venice, Vegas, and Amsterdam. The irrepressibly callow musician Raj catches her eye, but Raj thinks he's in love with Sakina, who prefers to pine away for her absent lover, Imaan.

Bollywood and Hollywood entwine for this mix of romance, singing, comedy, dancing, and melodrama, directed by Sanjay Leela Bhansali (DEVDAS) and produced in tandem with Sony/Columbia. The achingly beautiful Rani Mukherjee narrates and appears as Gulab, a streetcorner princess haunting the red light district in an expressionistic melange of Venice, Vegas, and Amsterdam. The irrepressibly callow musician Raj (Ranbir Kapoor) catches her eye, but Raj thinks he's in love with Sakina (Sonam Kapoor) who prefers to pine away for her absent lover, Imaan (Salman Kahn). All this longing (it's based on Dostoyevsky's WHITE NIGHTS) is stunningly captured through bizarre and elaborate backdrops, winding staircases, torrents of rain, and a colour scheme heavy on the blues. Fans of Baz Luhrman's MOULIN ROUGE will want to live inside this film. The music is always the thing with Bollywood films and SAAWARIYA packs in its share of rousing numbers. Western viewers entering the realm of Bollywood for the first time will find SAAWARIYA ('beloved' in Hindi) to be a crossover film that's ready to welcome them with open arms into a jubilant world of high-spirited song and dance, over-the-top goofiness, anguished melodrama, and romance.

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Aspect Ratio:	2.40 H D Widescreen
Main Language:	Hindi
Region:	Region B
Special Features:	'Making the Music' featurette, 'Premiere Night' featurette
Subtitles:	English, Icelandic, Dutch, Thai, Finnish, Spanish Latin American, Danish, German, Mandarin, Portuguese Brazilian, Greek, Castilian Spanish, Korean, Hindi, Czech, Norwegian, French, Bulgarian, Swedish, Arabic, Turkish
Year:	2007
Release Date:	May 19, 2008
Runtime:	137 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	S B R 45001
Keywords:	Music, Films, Performing, Musicals, Hindi, Arts, Bollywood, Saawariya
Genre:	Music/Performing Arts