Rang De Basanti - My Take

Watched Rang De Basanti (RDB) , now will be able to face all the scorned faces of the first day first show ers and the 'nth time watchers, who used to ask "what??? Yet to watch RDB!!" and now after watching for the first time, I doubt if I would want to watch it the second time.

Well this posting is about my 2 cents take on the movie [so, to be taken with a pinch of salt and loads of sugar!, would expect no flames on this :D], first of all, would want to summarize is as a nice movie, from the usual take of slick comedies of married men in search of greener pastures or some psycho lunatic thriller kind, etc... Each department of this movie on their own, excels, from songs [khoon chala is one of my favorites, nice slow tempo and good lyrics], acting, direction, cinematography and it is worth lauding the hand picked actors (the new faces) in portraying the roles, but somehow felt a missing, the synergy of all the department to pull out to make the final nail hammering kind of a verdict.

The grouse I have is, story telling department, it is quite out of sync or predated with the other departments. Felt it treating the viewer as a dumb, with a missing between his ears, spoon feeding him with each itsy bit of information too (3 hours of movie!!), in turn dragging the movie, well in fact the movie's tagline "The Young Generation Awakens", is more or less tells what could be expected, but why it awakens, was yes, to be seen. The last part of karan trying to answer the phone queries, was like trying to untangle the messed up storytelling and trying to wrap it up.

Somehow felt the part of paying life as martyrs to convey one's message, especially in the 21st century, felt quite far fetched. Does one lathi charge, charges one to such a limit so that one get immersed in the roles one played in the docu-drama and begin imitate them? [or could be, dande padne se, connection lag gaya hoga ;) ]. Logic or rationality the basic human traits are quite amiss? Don't we have any other means to conveying the displeasure other than playing martyrs or murderers? and all one does is just awaken?? But, what we require is not just the clarion call, but to be alert later too, not slipping back to slumber!! Suggestions like join the administration, would sure addon a mile, but still one might still get lost becoming one more brick in the existing wall. Perhaps, what we also require is a responsible generation [read as 'citizens'], who questions the doing of these responsible administrators. And to build both all we need 'education', right from the grass root level.


On a very very lighter note, would like to sum the movie as, "A crash course in history could, be injurous to one's life" ;)

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