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The movie starts off with the Mugal Ruler banning the music as he believed that music departed the person away from god. Saw the movie few days back, as i heard that this movie won a National Award, so finally i decided to watch the movie, the movie was excellent in every way. A heritage that many of us forget exists. You have given Punjab a reason to be proud of its Muslim heritage. May GOD grant you a long and blessed after-life in Heaven for you have no idea how many hearts you have touched by making this film. Manoj Punj, I hope you find everlasting peace until it is time for you to be reborn again. Lastly, I just wanted to mention that it is unfortunate that the director of this magnificent film could not be alive to see its success.
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Only in an Indian film will you find negative & positive forces of life represented equally and to such depths that it never fails to strike a cord with the viewer. Only in an Indian film will you find somebody dancing and singing to their execution. This film is no different in that respect. This is where I think Indian cinema excels, because most of the films made are family oriented & loaded with all of the world's emotions: anger, sorrow, joy, death, love, hate, peace, war. Hollywood is not emotional enough for they've become so desensitized, so detached from emotions that you can tell they are acting only on the surface. I cannot see Hollywood carrying off such a spectacular story line. I wish they made more films that influence for the good. Hasn't this always been the goal of media? To influence the masses - whether for good or bad. Cry for joy, cry for delight, cry because after watching you feel just a little bit closer to GOD. Both of them hit the mark, right on, with their acting so well, that while watching it you want to cry and you will (even if you're tough like me). Juhi Chawla is the epitome of Waris Shah's "Heer" character. Gurdass Mann has always been a living legend for us Punjabis as far as music goes and his acting in this is a real treat. Giving this film a 10 is an injustice for it deserves a 100 (too bad the scale doesn't go that high). If a movie like this can make a person like me, who hates poetry, become a poet (even if its for that little bit above) - it is definitely worth a watch. Everything from the air and dirt to actual characters in the film support the main protagonists and create the atmosphere that was Moghul-ruled Punjab. Its beautiful, beautiful, beautiful and I totally get what Waris Shah went through because you can feel it in the actors, in the space around them, the setting (the time), all the characters that feed the aura of the protagonists. I completely get how music connects the singer, the player, the listener to GOD. I still don't know the story of Heer Ranja, but having seen this film makes me want to read it (even if it is romance). As a kid growing up, I've always heard of Heer Ranja having similarities to Romeo and Juliet (a play I read in school, which I completely hated - turned me off to Shakespeare until reading MacBeth & King Lear), but never knew who the author was and the actual story.
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I wish they would make more films like this. Deep down, I felt my soul watch this film and cry in joy. Watching it was so refreshing that I think I'm changed from the inside. The voice is like that of Nusrat Fateh Ali Kahn, that upon entering one's heart, leaves room for nobody\ nothing else!) Films like these do Punjab proud and being Punjabi I am biased towards this film a bit. To start out and write a review for this film is not easy and I wanted to write something in Punjabi, but IMDb's spell checker kept flagging me so, I wrote only the English translations below: (Such a wonderful film, such beautiful songs that if life were to end right now, One would have no regrets.