Plantiana
Yawn. Poorly Filmed Snooze Fest.
Stevecorp
Don't listen to the negative reviews
Donald Seymour
This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.
imanallen
This movie is a piece of art. It tugs at your emotions and empathy. The pain of Chand, the main character, is felt as you watch her endless tribulations and abuse in the home of her new in-laws. The end of the film also plays and flirts with Indian folklore and symbolism which makes the ending mysterious. It's clear that there are several mixed reviews, however those who dislike the film most likely don't understand the culture and folklore played into the films inspiring ending.
Chrysanthepop
The main complaint about 'Heaven on Earth' seems to be in regard with its slow pace. I was quite engaged by the film and the pacing did not bother me at all. It only made it better that Mehta took her time to unfold Chand's character more. Many have stated that Chand lacked development and this I disagree with. The film centers around Chand's struggle with her new life and her character is excellently written. The mother-in-law was portrayed as one-dimensional. Speaking of writing, I think Mehta did a very good job with the story and I loved the Chand's beautiful monologues. Her use of symbolism and mythology is effective. The film is delicately shot mostly with hand-held camera. I like how Mehta distinguishes the private moments of the characters with black and white. The washed out colours only stress on the tense atmosphere. In terms of execution, 'Heaven on Earth' is on par with 'Water' (which was also stunningly filmed) but I think the former ranks as her best. Preity Zinta delivers one of the finest performances of her career. She is like one has never seen before. Her portrayal of Chand is subtle, nuanced, heartbreaking and strong. I used to admire Zinta a lot during her pre-'Kal Ho Na Ho' days and saw a very promising actress in her. However, I almost gave up on her when she limited herself on doing movies with the Khans and Yashraj. Now I am glad to see her back on track and hope she keeps doing great work. In my humble opinion, Mehta's 'Heaven on Earth' is a winner and definitely miles better than the not-even-good-enough-for-TV types like 'Provoked'.
royale_harry
The movie is OK to watch. Its true and happening in Canada and other foreign countries. But my comments is not purely about film its about real life scenario too. Most of the film like this are based on pro-women pathetic life in their national and foreign land. Besides this so far , no movies on Indian man who is married to foreign born arrogant wife. Theirs are lot of men who staying foreign from India with their selfish and arrogant wife. Who made their life miserable and down them to too much extent to become a wife follower.I suggest being all time pro women in movie, there must be movies on man living abroad with "Who care, Nobody cares" personalities nature persons.
raman_arora
This is one of the worst movie I have ever seen.The starting 10mins is the only good part of the movie showing traditional Punjabi music / songs. After that it becomes slow... slower and slowest... and never picks up the pace.... This was 106 minute movie... and feels like 306 minutes there are pin drop silent moments which could have been done better by adding background score... There were many scenes which makes no sense or could have been easily edited .... so that was also not upto the mark...Preity Zinta did good acting... her good work was literally wasted in this worthless movie....I would not recommend this movie to anyone... *** CONTAINS SPOILER *** No one expects adding factitious stuff like KING COBRA in the film.. this is really good topic and could have been done / presented in much better way... I had very high expectations from a reputed director like Deepa Mehta...Also the place where the kid throws the dentures of his grandpa into drain should be after he is told that his bed will be taken by his uncle... so cinematography is not up to the par either...
