Title: Mujhse Shaadi Karogi
Year: 2004
BD Release: 2010
IMDB Rating: 6.7
Category: Comedy | Romance
Distributor: T-Series
Authoring House: ??
Region Coding: A/B/C
MRP: Rs. 699/-
Media: Main Feature - 50GB BD
Running Time: 02:38:23 hrs
Chapters: 27
Video:
2.35:1, HD 1080p 16:9, AVC 24Hz
Peak Bitrate 38.3Mbps | Average Bitrate 21Mbps
Audio:
1/2 Hindi - Dolby Digital 5.1 <-- Default Track
2/2 Hindi - DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 (48khz)
Subtitles:
1/1 English <-- On by Default
Special Features:
NONE

Special Mention:
No Watermark Logo, during songs or otherwise. <-- Looks like T-Series has permanently dropped this reprehensible practise
No advertisements, forced or otherwise, during the movie. <-- Looks like T-Series has permanently dropped this reprehensible practise
No scrolling advertisements during songs or otherwise. <-- All Bollywood Video companies, please take note.
Separate 'Song Menu' to allow direct selection of song. <-- This should be a no brainer for all Bollywood films.

Authoring issues:
1. Subtitles turned 'ON' by default.
2. Dolby Digital 5.1 is the default audio track.
3. Once selection is made from the pop-up menu, it does not close right away (closes after 20 seconds).
4. There are only '6' scene selection options in the scene index menu instead of the '27' required to correspond with the 27 chapters. Was the authorer just lazy?

PS: T-Series needs to address the small but irksome authoring issues that consistently plague most of their recent BD releases.

Review:
Considering that this is a six year old movie, T-Series have come up with a pretty decent blu-ray release. The video is quite good and is marred only by a few issues. Fortunately, although the colors are way over saturated, it is an issue easily resolved by simply turning down the color control. The redddish tint I noticed in the screenshots and on my first viewing on the Samsung Plasma are not as much an issue when watched on my calibrated projector. There are hints of contrast boosting resulting in some black crush. Also, the bane of Indian blu-rays, ie. DNR, is very much present with some edge enhancement to make up for the softness caused by the DNR. I wonder why would anyone work so hard, first to apply DNR and then apply edge enhancement, to actually reduce picture quality. Although there are moments when the picture quality does dip, but all in all, specially due to the very colorful scenes in the movie, the picture is quite an eye candy at times with a rainbow of bright and shiny colors that ought to please quite a few. The audio on the other hand, although not bad, is not at par with the picture quality. Even though we have a lossless audio track, it would be hard for anyone to guess that, since the audio just does not have the depth and clarity of a lossless track. Considering that the movie has several popular songs which could have sounded so much better with a better audio presentation. The audio mix itself is flawed at times too. Such as during the end stadium scenes, wherein the volume levels of the characters are just not in sync with each other. For eg. Salman Khan is louder than Kapil Dev, even though Kapil has the microphone and Salman does not. Also, the surround channels are too loud at times. Special mention must be made of the fact that it seems that T-Series is now, no longer putting advertisements and logo watermarks on their Blu-rays, for this they need to be commended and they deserve our support. If only this movie was not as stupid as it is, I would have liked to recommend this blu-ray without any reservations. But as it stands, If you like this movie then this blu-ray is definately worth the money. For others who have not seen the movie before, I suggest you rent first. Recommended

Movie: 2.5 out of 5.0
Video: 3.75 out of 5.0
Audio: 3.25 out of 5.0
Extras: 0 out of 5.0
Overall: 3.25 out of 5.0





Screenshots courtesy: DDR

Equipment used for testing:
Projector: Panasonic PT-AE2000U
Screen: Da-Lite 4:3 120" 'Model B' - White Matte
Viewing Distance: 11' 6"
A/V Receiver: Denon AVR5800
Speakers: 5.1
Front/Main: Paradigm Reference 100 v2
Center: Paradigm Reference Studio CC v2
Rear: Tannoy - Mercury M5
Subwoofer: Paradigm Reference Servo 15
BD Player:
Oppo BDP-83 (Hardware Modified 'Region Free' with 'BDP83-50-0424' firmware)
PS3 (80GB US 'Region A' with firmware v3.41)

The review has been updated with detailed comments and revised ratings, after viewing on my projector.

i would like to eduacate the problem about kapil dev and salman khan scenes that none of the cricketers including kapil dev have dubbed in the recording studio....their voices of them are taken from the microphones that were used at the time of shooting......so the difference in audio levels of salman khan and kapil dev and other cricketers.......and as far as audio is concerened i will give it 4.0/5.......i like the mix.....considering the age (2004)

rest i totally agree with your review......!!

Thanks for the insight on the dubbing, but even then there is no reason why the audio could nto have been balanced in post production. The fact remains that it is just a poor job by the sound mixer. Also, I beg to differ but 'six years ago' (2004) is not at all old and in fact the technical capabilities of bollywood are no different today than they were in 2004. 'Age' could be an excuse for video quality, but audio that is in digital does not detiorate with time.

yaa it does not deteorate with time but the equiment used and the knowledge of the mixer definately improves with time........!!!

also i will say when i compared blu ray with dvd sound...........i smell some GADBAD..........becoz listning the surrounds in dvd looks real and in blu ray its like tsurrounds are sounding same as fronts.......in songs all the musical instruments are sounding in surrounds which was not there in dvd........what do you think has happened sanjay?? also listnen the centre it also sounds suspiciously different..........i do doubt soemthing has went wrong here.......