Jul 18, 2006 08:23 PM
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Being famous, being rich, being important, being lucky... they are all tickets to making social satire without thinking twice.
Being Amir Khan is having the ticket to doing that and getting away with it.
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In his brave movie, RDB, Amir Khan tries to throw several issues into the rink for discussion.
1) The Indian youth is a blind consumer. Youth are buying and living life with zest. Hedonism and testosterone are in the air. India is a bubbling new market and each Indian young man is transforming from being a charged ball of energy and strength to a pocket that can buy. From chimpanzee to human and from human to consumer. That is India's evolution story.
2) Idealism has taken a backseat in our country. There is little time to sit back and think. All of us Indians are like herds chasing basic needs of food, clothing and shelter. The country has become increasingly less thoughtful over the years of independence and it looks like India will never regain its intellectual glory in the future.
3) Our country has spun out of control and we need anarchist, desperate and violent revolution to bring things back on track. We need to kick some major sh*t.
4) Of course, the traditional money-makers harassing idealists. That is one theme that nobody in India is ever going to tire of using.
But the way AK puts it is stupid.
1) What is the Brit doing in the movie? Is AK trying to say that like we need FDI to fuel up our industry, we need a foreigner to recharge our patriotism batteries?
2) How is killing going to help? We need drastic measures to change the way things are going on but in such matters even drastic has to be deliberate and well planned.
These two major flaws bring down the whole facade and RDB ends up becoming another extremely entertaining and even gripping.... damp squib.
I know this was hardly a review and that you are going to give me NU for what I've had to say.
Guess what?
I'll love that.
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