Special: All about Rang De Basanti - Page 2

Originally posted by: lalit1

whats this got to do with SRGMP

A lesson to learn from this for future,if you read the whole article you will get the point.

YALGAAR HO!!!!!! Love ARR

Originally posted by: Swastika

Very good of Rehman for keeping his word. He gave really good songs to Naresh.
Remember how Anu Malik kept his word giving "work" to Rahul Vaidya and Prajakta Shukre?
"Hello Madam, Hello madam... I am your Adam!!!" My foot.

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One of my favourite pastimes while watching a Bollywood movie is to second-guess the director, think up what's going to happen next. Mostly I don't find directors very challenging, but Rang De Basanti was one film I wasn't sure where it was leading to at the intermission point.

Is that a good thing? Yes, if only the break was not 90 minutes into the film. By which time one's patience is slowly starting to wear thin at the never-ending antics of five out-of-college but in college mode youths plus one girl.

All about Rang De Basanti

Very few Indian directors, I think, can be dispassionate enough to know how much to edit their films, especially talented ones like Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra whose debut, Aks, was unusual. It's not half as difficult to make a good film as it is to do an encore. Few directors pass the test of a better second film.

Does Rakeysh Mehra, whose second film comes five years after his first, make the grade? I would give a qualified yes. Rang De Basanti has a story to tell, is not a ripoff of some exotic film, but the story is told at a leisurely pace. Is it a patriotic film? Yes and no. Is it a coming of age film? Yes and no. Is it a fun film? Yes and no. Is it a serious film? Yes and no. Does it have a neat ending? Yes and no.

You see the difficulty?

The story begins with the young British filmmaker Sue (Alice Patten) stalking off her budget-hit job to India to make a film on the young revolutionaries who so impressed her grandfather, an angrezon ke zamaane ke jailor, with their calm in the face of imminent death. In Delhi, aided by Sonia (Soha Ali Khan), she runs into DJ (Aamir Khan), Karan (Siddharth), Sukhi (Sharman Joshi), Aslam (Kunal Kapoor). With them and the saffron-hued Laxman Pandey (Atul Kulkarni) who joins them later, she hopes to realize her dream of a making a film on Bhagat Singh, Chandrasekhar Azad, Rajguru et al.

But, contrary to Sue's expectations, the youth have no feelings for their country. India is a no-hoper where corruption is rampant, and nothing can be done to salvage the situation, they believe. They even poke fun at Sue's attempts to make a film, till they come around. As they play the historical characters, their perspective about the present, and their own role in it, changes forever. Which, in a nutshell, is what the movie is about.

Madhavan, as Sonia's IAF pilot fianc, is the voice of conscience who rouses these five into action.

If I said how, I will be giving the end away. Talking of which, the end could have been handled differently, but that would not have got the result the director wanted.

It is very easy for a film of this nature to descend into preachiness, a fault another well-intentioned film Swades was unable to resist. Thankfully, this director doesn't give in, yet gets his message across.

The film has an awesome cast; apart from the headliners, there's Om Puri, Kirron Kher and Waheeda Rehman, doing little more than cameo roles, true, but who leave their mark.

Plus, it has an A-list of technicians. After an indifferent score for Mangal Pandey, A R Rahman redeems himself in Rang De Basanti. Binod Pradhan's cinematography is lyrical, and adman Prasoon Joshi evokes the youth lingo with his dialogues. Sameer Chanda's art direction and Allan Amin's action sequences are its other strong points.

Of the actors, it's tough to single out non-performance. Alice Patten, with her night-school Hindi, is brilliant, though at times I thought I was hearing Sonia Gandhi. So are the five lukkas, all of who are given their time under the sun and come out unburnt. Personally, Soha Ali Khan's performance was a pleasant surprise; she's got her mother Sharmila Tagore's genes all right.

But ultimately, despite sharing the screen space with others, this is an Aamir Khan film. And the actor, playing a character 15 years younger, lives the role, conveying the right amount of mischief (as in the banter in Hindi with Sue without realizing she knows the language), carefree flippancy, earnestness, insecurity, even breaking down on screen, and keeping his infectious laughter till the very end.

rang de basanti review

January 31st, 2006

rang de basanti movie review :
rang de basanti is a amir khan movie , it also is a patriotic movie, released just on the eve of indian republic day. What else does it need to make a movie hit ?
Well , definitely not too much hamming on a single idea . Anyone should know little of something is always good , too much of it …. not necessarily . The movie first half in my opinion was the good part - why , because it was more on the characters , the actual patriotism. Often , i feel that directors do not put in their own inputs or their own ideas , which makes the story just a naration. Here in , the director probably tried too hard or put too much belief in his own idea of what could have been.

The movie itself is comprised of 2 plots - one which was about the life of 5 youngsters , how that was changed by the devotion of a foreigner and her attempts to ensure the story of bhagat singh , Azad etc were told though her documentary . In the seocnd plot of the movie, which materialised in the 2nd half with the death of Raghavan , playing the role of soha ali Khan's Fiance and a unfortunate victim of the ill fated Mig 21 fiascos. Amir and his gang by now heated up by their performance practise decide to take a strong stance against the corruption of the current day government and go to extreme measures.

Likeable moments in the movie : amir's dialects , every time he picks up something new and makes the characters entirely likeable ; soha ali khan finally getting a ample role , and doing somewhat ok justice to it ;

Unlikeable moments in the film : a good part of the second half , especially towards the climax , killing of a defence Minister in PreIndependence style etc .