Monday, January 30, 2006

Rang de Basanti

Beautiful, grand, awesome and yet so life like.
A well made movie, a rich belnd of past and present and a hope for future. Oneliners that I won't forget for a long time to come. be it DJ saying "we have one feet in past and like to keep one in future, so cannot help but take a leak on present" or Sukhi and his take it easy attitude, with a strong urge to live and make it big hidden beneath it. Be it brooding Karan with a succesful dad syndrome or intense Aslam trying to define his own existence out of the conventional norm. Be it hardliner Laxman and his take on Hindutva, pseudo nationalism and his scuffles with Aslam. be it Sue with the passion and optimism to see history in present or be it Sonia with love for life. Each character is well developed and real life. You will know all of them in flesh and blood, you will identify with some of them.
Normal lost generation, generation that has taken things for granted, generation that thinks about itself, a generation waiting to be awakened.
Something will have to be done, something that will shake up everyone, a beginning has to be made, youth has to be mobilized, If we give up on our country our culture our history, we will give up on our identity. Something will have to be done to preserve the democracy, to let the sanity prevail.
A must watch for any one with seething desire to make a difference, Question yourself, introspect, we are as much a part of problem, understand that and start doing things the right way. and once we have enough of us doing it the right way, the problem will get solved :-)

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~asto' ma sat gamaya

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