Bin Roye- Movie Review by Shoby…
2 Stars out of 5
I believe it is one of the toughest task for a film maker to convert a book into a feature film as readers have already made certain image of the written material, when they read it. Momina Duraid is famous for making cult drama serials for Pakistani screens and many of them were adopted from novels. She, along with writer Farhat Ishtiaq and actress Mahira Khan has given one of the most popular fiction show Humsafar, which became so popular that it even got dubbed in other languages for international audience and was telecasted in India as well.
When they launched the teaser/trailer of Bin Roye (film adaptaion of a classic novel Bin Roye Aansoo), hype was instantly built. Audiendce was all set to witness another gem like Humsafar, however whether the trio of Momina, Farhat and Mahira has succeeded in producing a classic, lets analyze.
Storyline of novel is a love-hate saga… Storyline of the movie is an arthodox (so-called) love story. Bin Roye is without any doubt the most beautiful Pakistani movie, in terms of its art direction and costume design and probably one of the worst films, when it comes to script. Here, a poorly written script has spoiled the show entirely. Unfortunately they couldnt convert the novel into a strong likable script for the movie.
One major flaw of the script was that the most poignant moments of the novel , totally ignored in the movie. The whole lahore episode (before the birth of Muaaz) is disappeared. Scenes of Saba’s teenage are also not present in the movie. Some sequences that I loved in the novel like when Irtaza loses to Zafar and Saba’s outburst, the lahore episode, Saba’s marriage and her relationship with her husband. All these very important points were totally ignored (may be to shorten the length of the movie) but in return what came in front of us, was a half backed product. And it provided a serious dent to the essence of the script. That is why, true feel of the plot is missing.
Bin Roye Aansoo had a phenomenal climax and it was totally spoiled by some very flawed acting of Humayun Saeed. Even 360 degree rotational camera view could not help to enhance the impact. Writing a novel and a screenplay for a movie are altogether two different things and it is not necessary that a good novel writer turns into a great screenplay writer as well. They have failed to convert the essence of novel into a tangible script for sure.
Background score is soothing and although its more like of a musical track of a Hum TV drama, it goes well with the proceedings and may be it’s the only life savior for the film.
All the tracks are melodious and toping the album is Ankit Tiwari’s O Yaara. Rahat’s Tere Bina Jeena is also good and you may like to hum it occasionally. Title track of Shiraz Uppel (Bin Roye) is not present in the movie anywhere.
On the acting department Mahira Khan has tried to give her 100% and looked so innocent. Graceful dresses have made her look damn cute but she is definitely not a Film product for sure. Humayun Saeed disappointed big times and could not give at par performance. Armeena and supporting cast had nothing much to do. Dialogues of novel were far better. And they have used only few dialogues from it.
Costume designer, Sound designer and art director have succeeded in doing a phenomenal job. Overall cinematography is good with bright colors in focus. Choreography is a complete laid down and we need to focus much on this department. Editing is not good. In fact, they have perhaps, over edited the proceedings.
On the whole, it is evident from Bin Roye that Film is an entirely different medium from TV and all TV directors/producers cannot get the same status in film production. After Jami’s failure attempt in Operation 021, this time Momina Duraid along with her co-director have failed to make any impact.
