"Raanjhanaa'"- celebrates pain of heartbreak

As for Sonam Kapoor, she is a complete revelation! In a born-again performance she sparkles and shines creating a kind of sunshine-girl who is so taken up with herself that she doesn't get the chance to see what affect she has on the other until it's too late.

Swara Bhaskar as Dhanush's devoted ill-treated girl-pal and Mohammed Zeeshan Ayyub as his loyal friend, once again prove themselves natural-born scene stealers.

"Raanjhanaa" is a very simply-told story of a love so intense, durable and destructive, that it hurts. The inner turbulence, tumult and tensions of the central alliance evolves from the vibrancy of Varanasi, from each fluent note of Rahman's music, and from every pore of director Anand L. Rai's transparent honest passionate treatment of that much-misunderstood emotion called love.

Looking back on this deeply-satisfying film, I search for flaws. And I come up with one. Would anyone every want to fall in love with a girl so selfish that she allows the man who worships her to be destroyed right in front of her eyes? Is love, then, only about giving and not expecting anything in return?

If Rai's remarkable love tale seems so richly sublime and vibrant it's partly because Sonam and Dhanush have submerged themselves into their characters until we see only their love... rather, his love.

Now we know why we fall, and never rise in love!