Mela

This is wonderful whole movie is full of action comedy this movie didn't bore u starting to end beautiful movie

Don't listen to any of the crap about this movie. It's much better than the overrated movies of its era e.g Dil to Pagal hai etc.... I have watched it a few times myself. A full entertainer....

You'd think that with hits like Raja Hindustani and Lootere in his bag, Dharmesh Dharshan would have a good entertainer in Mela. Not! Mela is really Sholay revisited. Sad to say, it doesn't even come close to Sholay.

So we have Twinkle Khanna, the village belle. Her brother (Ayub Khan) and best friend (Omkar Kapoor) are killed by the evil Gujjar (Tinnu Verma). She swears revenge against the latter. A series of events land her together with Kishen (Aamir Khan) and Shankar (Faisal Khan), whose help she enlists in her fight against Gujjar.

Twinkle truly brings to life the phrase damsel in distress to life! If she's not getting raped, she's plunging down waterfalls and being chased around by Gujjar's men. How she manages to find time to sing God-awful songs is beyond me. She's a truly drastic change from Darshan's usual heroines of substance. And having someone dub over her lines is the worst idea ever. Instead od sounding authentic, it sounds TERRIBLE, like she's overacting! Faisal Khan is a good looker, but it's hard to tell if he can act well. His role is pretty much like his previous one in Madhosh - the silent, stoic type. Aamir, as usual, is in his element as the playful Kishen. If not for him, this film would be lousier than it already is.

None of the songs are worth mentioning. The only one's that pseudo-decent is Dhadkan Mein Tum and that too, is a rip-off the background music of Ramesh Sippy's Andaz. Is Anu Malik THAT desperate?? Twinkle's outfits are awful, by the way! I may be a diehard fan of Aamir Khan, but there's no denying that Mela isn't worth celebrating.

Aamir is very choosy of his films but sometimes he too has done mistakes Dharmesh Darshan's MELA was one of his mistakes which also starred him with his brother Faizal Khan

The film is a remake of THE SEVEN SAMURAI and also CARAVAN but the film also suffers from the SHOLAY hangover

The characters of Aamir- Faizal and the villain Tinnu Anand(his name in the film being Gujjar) suffer from SHOLAY hang over

The film however is boring and the comedy between Aamir- Faizal is irritating and too loud and the pee joke copied from DUMB AND DUMBER and earlier shown in HERO HINDUSTANI(98) is badly handled

The villain's track too is clichéd and so is the entire bhasti set up plus the misunderstanding between Aamir and Twinkle and the entire climax

The climax is stretched endlessly

Direction by Dharmesh Darshan is weak, Music is okay, DHADKAN MAIN TUM is the best

Amongst actors Aamir tries hard to play a Dharam type role of SHOLAY but is too loud here though he does well in many scenes He isn't at his best Faizal Khan given the serious role is too stiff mostly but okay in some portions Tinnu Anand is very good as Gujjar Twinkle Khanna however is painful, her dubbing by someone else is too bad and shreiky and that worsens her act This role was offered to Karisma but Dharmesh felt that Twinkle will suit it better and that was a bad part though even Karisma would be intolerable with her crying Amongst rest Johny irritates, Tiku Talsania and the rest gang of Raja Hindustani(Navneet Nishan.etc) are boring Ayub Khan dies soon thankfully

Mela is an action film revolving around a woman who wants revenge against a robber for destroying her life. A simple story but narrated from rural Ego. It glorifies the Unprogressiveness of a certain sections of society which ages very badly. Dharmesh Darshan didn't foresaw the calculation of that. Mela in short is a tale of revenge, bloodshed and eroticism between them.

Firstly, the audio, the BGM were so loud that you will feel the heat of the mood. Every frame has that high tonal attitude, which goes like that upto the end. The characters are too same. Amir is passion driven, lacks the steadfastness and emotional fool. A very bad choice for a protagony. His friend is good though, feels like a hard man but he is a supporting cast only. Twinkle face reflects purely the capitalist attiude, who wears revealing dress of a village damsel, with fiery eyes and soft emotions. Such an odd combination is this. The film in summary is a total combo package of emotional outbursts that display passion for revenge, bloodshed and wild desires.

Ofcourse, sexuality is seen lowly in the film but the actresses strategies and her very appearance will confuse you. After a lot of emotional drama and this-that, all the good guys kills the bad guys in worst possible manner. You will laugh yourself out if you think logically "In which country are they from ? Or where are the Police and civilized people ?" The energy you get from it is fire burning somewhere and DD explicitly attempted to portray that in screen. It's your choice if you want to see it but by rating it will be a 22 on a scale of 100.