Dec 12, 2009 09:45 PM
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Over the past three yrs Real Cinema has emerged out of the woodwork of bollywood. Dibakar Banerjee with Khosla and Oye lucky, Balki with Cheeni Kum and Paa, Anurag with Dev D and Black Friday, Shashant Shah with Dasvidaniya, Sagar Bellary with Bheja Fry, and Shimit Amin blessed with the backing of YRF has given us Chak De India and now Rocket Singh.
What sets apart these films? Do they have a secret direction rider that states no foreign locations, no helicopters and no Russian dancers? We will never know. But what we do know is tht these movies have a "real" touch to them. Honest story telling being the main motive. Stories that are about people and ordinary lives, and not about manhattan and mehndis.
Rocket Singh is the story of one mans journey into the big bad corporate world of salesmanship. And everything about him and the story is real. Yes he is a sardar and they speak punjabi at home, but he does not count stars or talk about chandni chowk and wear Armani or strut the London bridge.
It's a heart warming tale of a man who fights the odds and lives life on his own terms though the world around him maybe corrupt and bad. I don't want to talk about the story as the magic will be lost. And cleverly written lines of mine will not give you the whole picture. So. The movie is very. Well written and it's glorious to see Prem Chopra not as a paraplegic comic in a B grade comedy caper but as a doting grandfather who has has a great sense if humor and is a perfect foil to Ranbir. Well casted the actors play the characters and Gauhar Khan is a revelation. Butthe cherry on the cake is Ranbir Kapoor. A brilliant understated performance which gives him the tag of an actor. No towel wearing silhouettes, or dancing on Greek islands. We always knew he had great comic timing, the charisma to pull off solo hero projects. But this movie will make you take him as an actor. The script is brilliant and detailed. The direction is flawless and after ages comes a movie that relies not on montage, gimmicks and stars but on the script and the lines. Without a song the movie is a slice of life film. It's not a multiplex film. It's good cinema. Blessed by a studio budget Shimit Amin utilizes the budget to telling a story well like he did in Chak De. And big studios should support such real cinema. What started off with Bheja Fry has now given the chance for good scripts to emerge. Rocket Singh is poignant, funny, touching and like Chak De it's an underdog story told well. The art direction is brilliant and blends into the movie brilliantly. Real. Watch Rocket Singh.
