Ethan (Hrithik Roshan), a magician, suffers an accident that
renders him paralysed. As he struggles to live with his
condition, he falls in love with his nurse Sofie (Aishwarya
Rai).  An earnest melodrama with luscious imagery.  A melodrama
that never says in two words what it can say in ten, Sanjay
Leela Bhansali’s Guzaarish balances its blubbery sentimentality
with some beautifully-realised images to heart-warming and
generally likable effect. This elaborate weepy tackles the hot-
button issue of euthanasia, and its giddying production design
makes for continual backlit scenes of billowy curtains, dewy
eyes and declarations of undying love in the face of death. But
its earnest excesses are part of its undeniable charm.
Guzaarish sits within the same 'suffering-artists’ genre as
Alejandro Amenábar’s The Sea Inside (2004) and Julian Schnabel’s
The Diving Bell and The Butterfly (2007); Bhansali and co-
scripter Bhavani Iyer have taken as their inspiration the Brian
Clark script (based on his own play) for the 1