January 30 2006
Rang De Basanti, one more review
My verdict – Flop! Not because its a bad movie, its fantastic. But its not for the front benchers and in India there are 80% people who fall in the category of front benchers. If you love David Dhawan and Govinda movies, you will hate this one.
There can be only 2 opinions about it – awesome or aweful, terrific or terrible. Hardly anyone will have an in-between opinion. I say its an awesome, terrific movie. The director and writer has made a valiant effort and applied their minds. It is quite innovative and a very different approach.
Without divulging more details, it all starts after Sue arrives in India to make a documentary on Bhagat Singh and his associates. She finds perfect actors in DJ (Daljit, Aamir Khan) and his group of friends. They all are easy going, fun loving bunch of people who takes Sue’s idea as a joke, but finally goes along with her.
Down the line somewhere, these bunch of people land up playing the modern day revolutionaries. But this time, India is not ruled by British but corrupt politicians in cahoot with selfish businessmen. History repeats itself, but with different type of characters and different circumstances.
DON’T MISS IT! But go with an open mind with zero expectations. Its not a normal Bollywood masala movie. Remember, its little different and hats of to the director, writer and producer for having the courage to make something different!
If you want to read some more blogs/reviews, you can check out the following links or Google it up.
- Official Rang De Basanti Site
- My friend Deep’s blog
- Mid-Day
- Rediff
- Indian Express
- apunkachoice.com
i also thought it wud be a flop, but its getting good response from ppl too.
i thought where lakshay and swades, failed this will also fail but its getting to be a hit
If it gets good response, I will feel little better about the Intelligence Quotient of our people
I guess, this one will do good business in cities, but not in small centres and villages.
i agree but the movie is doing well in small cities too… again i was proved wrong
The movie is weel suited the the ‘itellignet’ audience, but for the audience that makes a hit a hit, it won’t do well with that segment. It isn’t about small towns and large cities.
hey i was surprised wen u said flop.But got ur msg now.Seems better to wqite now wen it has bcome a big HIT.shows that such movies do work.
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