7 khoon maaf.

The movie reviews were bad. Yes they were bad, I usually dont read them, but read for this one before I saw the movie.

And finally yesterday I saw the movie. I dont know what the fuss of it being a bad movie is all about. Ok, the climax is anti-climax - but I saw it coming right through (Blame my keen sense of sensing the stench of religion). 

Ok, there were 6 men and murders to deal with that allows a limited detailing of characters over events.

Ok, Priyanka simplified her performance to cut out emotional transitions, except catching the actual emotion. 

Ok, the story is simplistic, but considering all that it was achieving - its a pretty decently made movie, at least by Indian standards.

Women are complex, its their sensitivity that lends them this complexity in parts. It is impossible to perfectly define or identify a person let alone judge them, yet, more often I have seen people take decisions on behalf of others. Apparently what seems to be forgotten is that it is one thing to have us make our own decisions and quite another to expect people to dance on our tunes - if one person wants to make all decisions where is the relationship? Either ways, its a power struggle, and no relation is exempt from this rule.  

So Priyanka's character is stuck in her own power struggles. She offers love, money a piece of her ass, and kills the mad dogs she comes across rather than move away - for some misguided motive of saving others?

The point is not weather she is really justified in killing people or not, apparently the question seems to be she is a perfect woman caught among imperfect men - and the only perfect man she falls back on is a self-sacrificing man (or god) eventually. Her fatal flaw is the killing spree - which is hardly telling anything. I have never encountered an individual that is not flawed in more than one ways - or at least the only way of wanting to kill.

The question is what is a flaw really? As far as I am concerned its being a nuisance to each other.

It becomes impossible to identify the truth from lies, and you end up contriving stupid plots to chase this wanting to know the truth. I now know that every action coming out of only emotions results in pain - but this is an insight that is of no use and might as well be discarded when dealing with people around you.   

But yeah, lets give it to the movie and stick to the story line, a woman in quest for love, and men each with a certain misguided motivation (to cover a certain complete spectrum of flaws - arranged marriage with a disabled man, where the disability percolates into being as low self esteem - a drug addict - one sexually perverse form of impotency, where violence cures his impotency momentarily - a man who trades in lies for being a spy , including two timing - a man trading emotions for sex - a man greedy for money - and of course a man who offered blood by letting himself be killed first on the altar of unconditional love)  

Ironically, the child who grows to adult in infatuation is the second closest expression of love.

what really kills the concept is that I have never come across the one woman obsessed only with love without her own deceptions and agendas who can claim to be none of the 6 individuals she killed as far as the traits go. 

So really the only way I can make that story work is by a piece of perverted logic that the director could not have meant ; that every individual is both masculine and feminine - and when he kills his (said) corruptions (of 6 kinds) to reach the divine within there is the true individual restored in balance (a man who sacrifices himself for the world, and a woman who sacrifices the world for a man ; together in harmony of dance); but that is a stance with too many philosophical faults for my liking - I would rather say such a person will be always in conflict far from complete.  

Hence if and the only flaw that glares into my face is that the notion that Priyanka's character suffers no other flaw - which apparently seems to be like a sort of adjustment made to suit the climax - that makes the movie artificial in content, but craft is plenty. I wouldn't mind watching it once, and perhaps twice.

And yeah, the lyrics and songs are good, if at all they profess sweet nothings (we all experience these at least once btw), it goes with the movie - it makes a case of nothing except a commercial cinema (whatever that means really).