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  Review by adatar ★★★½

  *literally any movie*
  Shashi Kapoor: I'm a B.A pass 😔💯

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  Review by nrh ★★★★

  early career success from yash chopra, after two ambitious commercial failures, and an early example of the "lost and found" story form made most famous by manmohan desai in the late '70s. here the expressly happy family, after having celebrated their ascension to the middle class through the patriarch's manual labor, is split and destroyed by an earth-quake so abrupt and stylized it's hard not to think of it as metaphor (tellingly chopra's last film was on the trauma of partition). the family, split across lines of geography and class, will only be re-united through a dense melodramatic weave of romance, jewel theft, murder, and courtroom theatrics.

  what really impresses here is the film's narrative elegance, its ability to treat…

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  Review by Shaurya Jha ★★★★ 11

  R.I.P William Shakespeare, you would've loved Waqt

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  Review by Brighid ★★★★ 5

  "love falls like rain, and flows away like water"

  my 8th yash chopra - the homie always comes through

  also the last film i'll watch in rhode island for a long time 😢

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  Review by H ★★★★

  It almost appears as a subconscious subject, but one can write a whole essay on the use of coincidences to create drama in Chopra's films. Though the conscious choice that one can endlessly admire is, the vibrant and lush aesthetic; It's truly gorgeous with an iconic soundtrack to its support.

  The charming and noble (Shashi!) actors do more than enough to make the pace breezy. But the clear high point is the jazzy, seductive song sequence; Aage Bhi Jaane Na Tu. It expertly deceives us into buying a certain planned plot, but then twists everything for a whole new third act. Amazing.

  Only good vibes from this one.

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  Review by Sailesh Dahal ★★★

  I want my problems to be solved like last 5 mins of this film.

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  Review by Bru

  Chinoy seth, jinke apne ghar sheeshe ke hote hai woh dusron pe pathhar fenka nahi karte

  Adi Chopra's inspiration for one of my favourite scenes in DDLJ. a spectacular car race. the best costumes ever. a dazzling production design: i mean, cherry red and emerald green leather couches as an office aesthetic? sign me up. Sunil Dutt has his charm on full throttle and he never takes his foot off the pedal, not even for a frame. the framing of the shots is soooo good, esp. the scenes where the estranged family members cross paths at literal crossroads, completely unaware. the three shot in the engagement party is chef's kiss. Balraj Sahni is the greatest actor ever and that's not…

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  Review by irmavep ★★★★

  Truly lush (I’m obsessed with all the houses and outfits) and properly epic (that courtroom sequence!) melodrama.

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  Review by rahul ★★★★

  Brilliant lost and found movie- more concerned with class, personal trauma and relations rather than national identity as Manmohan Desai would pursue in Amar Akbar Anthony.
  Waqt contains enough ideas to make multiple films- that Yash Chopra manages each character so delicately is astounding.

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  Review by Jenna Ipcar ★★★★

  Totally wild twisty tale of a family drama that spans decades of time as a family is broken due to an earthquake that splits and scatters each member to the winds. One brother Raja ends up in an orphanage and turns to a life of high end crime, the father tracks him down and is sent to jail after murdering the cruel orphanage director, another son Ravi is adopted by a rich family and raised to be a lawyer, and the baby son Vijay grows up in poverty with his mother, forced to take a job as a chauffeur once she becomes sick with cancer. We follow each of them as their stories intertwine unknowingly, some love triangles and forbidden…

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  Review by siva

  writer: how many children do you want to get separated from their parents this time?

  yash chopra: yes.

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  Review by divya ★★★

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.