Overall, ‘The Great Gatsby’ gives you every reason to rejoice and celebrate love. Despite the story of a doomed love and a brooding lover, Baz Luhrmann brings in much more to F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic.

Luhrmann, who also co-wrote the screenplay, stuns you — and not in a nice way — with this introduction to Gatsby’s world and with later how Gatsby makes an appearance himself.

…Gatsby is greedily gorgeous and occasionally sags, luxuriating in a 3D-theatric too many. Still, it showcases Fitzgerald’s drama with flair – a society dancing on a knife’s edge, where everyone drank and romanced too much, but you also heard an odd, wistful sigh – maar daala.

Amitabh Bachchan, in a one-scene cameo as Meyer Wolfsheim tells the world what we always knew: Big B is an actor who needs just that one scene.

Overall, the film carries with it all the style of its director and cast. However, what made the story so popular and loved, was not the dazzle but its heart. That is where this film falls short.

In a weird sort of way, The Great Gatsby is to America what Devdas is to Indians. Deep down, they are both shallow books, which is one of the reasons they make for great tent-pole entertainment.