Deepika and Ranbir in Imtiaz's Tamasha: A movie review

Let me be straight up. I'm not really the one who will sit up late till the midnight just to write a movie review. Now since I'm taking up the pen and gathering my thoughts about the film, the movie has to be something worth of. It is. Tamasha, serves like a reawakening to the masses to sit up an actually look into yourself and question your living. ' Am I a person with a masked identity trying to fake up my own heart and soul?' 'Is this life taking me where I ACTUALLY want to be?'
Beyond the sizzling chemistry between the lead pair of the film Ranbir and Deepika, lies these questions.
The film opens to a stage portraying Deepika as a clown and Ranbir as a robot as they try to bridge the ' dil aur duniya'. 
According to the history of Imtiaz Ali's works, from Jab We Met, Love Aaj Kal to Rockstar and now Tamasha, the hero has to be a 'underdog' of his life going through highs and lows until an awakening comes by. In Tamasha, this awakening (obviously) has to be brought by Deepika.
As a little boy in Simla, Ved (Ranbir) would often run to the storyteller baba( Piyush Mishra) leaving his books aside to hear various stories like Ramayan to Laila Majnu and Romeo Juliet. These stories set his imaginative mind off, so much so that he introduces himself as 'Teja' (the oldschool bollywood character) to Deepika(Tara) who quickly responds herself as the 'Mona darling'. The 7 day holiday in Corsica looks fresh with Ravi Varman's camera setting up a beauty of a kind.
So here's the pact, the two lead characters swear by not to reveal their identities and promise not to meet each other ever in their lives yet they enjoy their hearts out in the exotic island of Corsica.Moreover, the first half breaks the stereotyped bollywood films when the lead characters decide to devote themselves as strangers to each other with no strings attached of any kind; be it emotional or physical.
As the 7 day trip approaches the end, Tara slowly falls for Ved ending the holiday on a tragic note. As the story goes by, the pair finds themselves together back in New Delhi where they actually disclose their identities.
Ved, a product manager, in an MNC leads a hopelessly monotonous life under crutches of his boss. Completely different and poles apart from what Tara saw in Corsica, Ved is 'decent' gentleman back in India and not a cool and happening as she saw in Corsica. Gradually, they hang out extensively after which Ved proposes Tara only to have his heart broken leading to a great interval of the film.
The second half turns up into a 'Romeo-Romeo' story as Ved undergoes a psychological transformation. A little is revealed about Tara and her background as the story completely shifts towards Ved in the second half.

As complex as Imtiaz's movies get after the interval,a series of flashbacks, self talks in the mirror are a result a simple yet strong direction.
Ved's family issues are confronted right to the core which drew their roots from Ved's childhood. His father ( Javed Sheikh) had compelled his son to join the rat race by taking up engineering during his teens despite Ved's constant resistance, which had made him the person he doesn't want to be ,or as the matter of fact,  which he actually isn't. 
Rahman's rhythm and Irshad's words form a super combo as the music truly becomes a soulful melody. A simple but well established scenes between Ved and his father ,with his boss and even with the rickshaw driver brings out the true Ved gradually, which Ranbir has performed exceedingly well.Story-teller Piyush Mishra becomes his final push when he asserts Ved as coward since he couldn't  confront his fears and longs for others' opinions and directions.
Amidst the battle which Ved fights with himself, the incomplete love story between Ved and Tara finally seeks a happy ending. Ved returns to his easy gong, notorious ways yet a charming personality as he was to which Tara fell a prey.

Imtiaz sticks to his style of storytelling and yet produces a completely different product with his every outing at the box office. What has been a truly great thing about Tamasha is the transformation Ali brought into this film-making as the story progresses. Not only the characters transform, the music, the art design, the costumes, the dialogues, the camera (even the locations!) all adapt themselves to the twists and turns of this highly complex tale.Screenplay deserves an appraisal as it perfect blends the broken bits and pieces of the flashbacks into one final output.

However, this film is set for an open interpretation to everyone. That's the reason I found so many mixed reactions before I actually walked into the theater.Inside a complexly creative mind of Imtiaz Ali, lies this love story or drama or comedy or whatever you wanna call. However,the message is loud and clear to the audience which ultimately finds its spot in everyone's heart..