Notebook Movie Review: Salman Khan is the producer of the most tender love story of his career. 4 stars

It is significant that Salman Khan is the producer of the most tender and lyrical love story of his career. Salman has repeatedly expressed his version on the physical love on the screen, PDA in its most public form, if you want it. He never kisses his heroines.
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His new discovery, Zaheer Iqbal either, is a young sports beginner who shows an unexpected surge of compbadion at certain moments of the plot. Zaheer is a lambi ka ghoda breed.
It's a romance where the main pair does not meet. They touch each other by the word. No poetry, notice. This is not an opportunity to make a pakeezaah on us. Director Nitin Kakkar, whose latest film Mitron is a neglected gem, creates a moving alchemy in the novel. The atmosphere is as dark as that of the valley when the weapons are silent. The story moves at will without worrying about the speed with which the world advances for those who treat love as a commodity to strengthen their ego.

It's a love story that dares to be pure. And sublime. It defines the concept of echo walking, where one protagonist walks on the footprints left by another, bringing together the two polarized protagonists in a way that they would not understand themselves.

Kakkar and his writer Darab Faroo who keep things simple. Thus, on the surface, the story waits serenity seriously. He refuses to immerse himself in the political issues of Kashmir, knowing full well that he can not escape the reality of violence. But there is always a loophole where the artist can convince himself that love triumphs over everything. Notebook takes the way quiet and sweet.

Notebook believes in the sublimity of love. The fact that he really encourages us to invest in his belief, that he avoids feeling cynical about his pure representation of love, is a very rare event in the cinema today. Therefore, there are Kabir and Firdaus who like the idea of ​​being in love with each other. This idea of ​​idealized love is beautifully transcribed in the picturesque splendor of Kashmir.

The meetings between Kabeer and Firdaus would have been more elaborate.

The two newcomers speak fluently of their movements and express a growing love for their dark love. Zaheer Iqbal is an unconventional hero. It displays a surprising surge of unimagined emotions. Pranutan has a fragile but strong presence. With time, this talent can become a definition of glow.

There are new, very capable actors, some Kashmiris, who play supportive roles. And the seven children who are integral to the film's aspirations will win your heart.

I know we say it every time Kashmir is put on celluloid. But this one is really realized as a dream by the director of photography Manoj Kumar Khatoi. Each image tells the story of a battered valley, battered and wounded by violence, while preserving the sacredness of the love that runs through the film in the manner of a foal wide open. In each setting, the protagonists seem to hold hands without uniting.

Notebook is a film rich in resonance. The unhurried pace allows us to absorb the emotions that propagate mounts. But the desperate effort to forge a brutal but resonant material for an awkward climatic shootout was unexpected. This film did not need manipulative hands.

And the symbolism of drowning a weapon in the lake is out of place in this polished work.

Report of Subhash K Jha

Rating: 4/5