Gaaonwalloooo....... Review on Rang De Basanti

Rang De Basanti(RDB) is a combination of great sets and cast, wonderfully well thought out dialogues and scenarios, a colorful celebration of our country......and then they mixed it with a wonderfully stupid twist in the storyline that made u feel like u found a roach in that wonderfully delicious ice cream u have been savouring.

It makes u feel remorse at having enjoyed the ice cream so much to the point where u discovered the roach, needless to say, u wont be very enthusiastic about proceeding with the ice cream from there.

hmm...perhaps that comparison sounded a bit harsh on the movie, but its how I felt. I was enjoying RDB so well that I was really aghast when I saw the proceedings after interval. If the movie had been yuck from the start, like many recent releases, u are in for no major shock no matter which turn the movie makes. The maximum it can do is maybe make u forget to take the last yawn u had been mentally preparing to take. But RDB had been a fun filled roller coaster ride in the first half, but in the second half the roller coaster fails, the nuts give way and the movie lands flat on its face. So much for roller coaster rides.

I usually hate movies that try to pass social messages to the viewers. (gaaonwalloo...tum sab na-mard ho! choodi pehan loooo...arreee! ek ladki ke izzat din dahaade loota aur tum dekhte raheee??? tumhare ghar walloon ke saath hotaaa tho kyaa dekhte baithaaaaa??)

I just cant stand the hero-babu who stands there and delivers such lengthy dialogue about the wrongs in the system, the villian-takurs and pulis afsars who keep laughing hysterically while doing an injustice (what is so funny about it anyway?).

When I saw the oneliner ' A generation Awakens' under RDB, I was excited. I quite like Aamir. He has a pretty sensible head in his shoulders and I was really looking forward to how well the topic would be handled.

The movie takes off just like I expected. Colourful and pointless, it was getting us settled for what was to come. Six friends with nothing much to do in life other than booze and hang around all day and night. I was almost sure that at the end of the movie I will see them re-discover themselves and turn into mature, serious citizens. How wrong I was!

Aamir has completed college 5 yrs ago in the movie, but doesnt do anything much other than make merry with pals. His pals are Siddharth - I loved this guy in the movie..he was really cool except for the final acts of stupidity that he does. Kunal Kapoor - as the poetic teetotaller muslim has done a great job too. Sharman Joshi - has proven once again that he has great talent, his comical timings are just too good. Soha Ali Khan - this is the first time im taking notice of her. Her effort in this movie proves that if she has a good role, she can really give a good result. Madhavan - small role, but well handled.

Their fooling around makes anyone think they are upto no good. Get deeper into their world and u see that they are good at heart and do take time off sometimes to think about the state of our country (pathetic, according to them).

Alice Patton is the grand daughter of the officer who witnessed the hangings of Bhagat Singh and his friends. Inspired by his diary she lands in India to shoot a documentary on them. She is Soha's friend and unable to find any good cast in the ENTIRE university they she decides to cast Aamir and friends.

The way they make the movie and kind of (not fully) get inspired by the brave deeds of the matyrs form the first half of the movie. And this part is beautifully crafted.

(I gave the movie three stars just because of the first half. That is also why I recommend it)

At interval...get up and walk off.

Still sitting? okie, dont feel sorry later. Madhavan who is an ace pilot and engaged to Soha, dies in a MIG crash. The pals blame the defence minister and ''inspired'' by the freedom fighters, shoot the life out of him. Literally.

Think of it. Agreed the minister might be a bit corrupt but how can someone just.....WAIT. You are talking about the minister? Why! they even had Siddharth kill his own father for the simple reason that he had business dealings with the govt and they believe that he sold the govt sub-standard materials for making a better profit margin! Scope that! A proper business man who very much loves his son and, from what I saw in the movie, doesnt have any ''underworld'' or such connections. Just murdered in the cold by his own son?

Reason? well..<ahem> the generation just woke up. And it had a bad hangover from the boozing last night. Well...if this is whats gonna happen if the generation awakens....someone better find a way to put them back to sleep.

They end up storming the radio station and telecast what they have done to the world. The commandoes come in and return the favor that they did for the defence minister. Sab khatam. Movie bhi.

Hows that? <sigh> Britishers have always been the reason for the woes of Indians. Alice, why did u come down to India? If u had stayed there in Britain itself, neither the defence minister nor the business man nor the 6 happy-go-lucky good though stupid indian kids would have died.

well well...i had advised u to take a walk at the interval no? you have only urself to blame. Now wipe that silly look off ur face and march off!

I dont know how many people share my views, many I met have loved the second half better than the first...

Ok! forget it..there are other pressing issues to address.. our water supply from the corporation is not functioning properly for the past week. Im gonna kill the chairman, anyone interested can mail me in my personal ID and I will detail the plan.

PS: Pls respond with the distance to the nearest radio station from ur homes.