Rang De Basanti....

Name : Rang De Basanti
Starring: Aamir Khan, Soha Khan, Madhavan, Shraman Joshi...
Rating : ****

Now in its 3rd week....a lot has been written about this movie..and more spoken about.

Being one of the most talked about movies in recent times..it certainly is worth a watch. Still smarting from the debacle of the much awaited and much talked about "The Rising"... the film industry was not very hopeful of the next Aamir Khan starrer.

Barring die hard fans (even though they had to concede that "The Rising" was not Aamir stuff...) most people were not expecting RDB to be much of a movie....

Quite unlike its predecessor, this movie came in very slowly...not much hype..more popular for its Daler Mehndi track than anything else...

Not much was known about what the movie was about...and that is the clincher.

I have for long believed that the best publicity for a product is word-of-mouth....you can keep shouting praises for your product through billboards, radio, print media..etc etc..but ultimately what works is the consumer - in case of movies, the audience. This is the best publicity a movie can get.

The first day, first show crowd..as it comes out of the theater makes or breaks the movie..in this case, it made it.

Slowly but surely, RDB has become the mantra for the new generation...

The storyline is about an American docu-filmmaker, Sue, who, to rest her grandfather's soul in peace, is in India to make a documentary on the legendary Bhagat Singh and the other young revolutionaries of his time. Soha Ali, is her Indian counterpart, who willingly supports her crusade despite the fact that Sue's employers have thrown her out. The movie is about Soha and her friends, who through Sue's docu-film find their own patriotism. The death of their pilot friend in a MIG-21 mishap pushes them to extreme action..(cant tell you everything can i?)

This is film for the Indian youth....steeped in the materialism that the economic liberalism has brought...and who is constantly looking for a panacea for their problems and looking to someone else to come and solve the country's and their issues.

A slap in the face of all those who think that cleaning the Indian polity is the work of politicians, media and 'other people'.... its a wake up call to the youth.

Great acting by all - including Aamir, who just goes on to prove that as far as acting goes he's the real King of Bollywood. This movie shows that the director and the scriptwriter have all extensively researched on the topic...woven a tight script...and then made the movie.

My advise to the public - very good movie...Behen di Taki acchi lagi ...lol lol lol

WATCH IT