Rang De Basanti
What happens when you mix the energy and valor of the modern day youth with the might of the freedom struggle?????? Simple, you get a creative and delightful treat in the form of RDB. Kudos to Aamir and director Omprakash Mehra for showcasing the charishma of our freedom fighters with a youthful backup. Bollywood very rarely churns out meaningful movies with skin flicks dominating the current trend. If last year we got full satisfaction with Bhansali’s “Black” then this year we attain it through RDB.
DJ (Aamir), Karan (Siddharth), Aslam (Kunal kapoor) and Sukhi (don’t know his name) are a bunch of cool dudes who care for nothing, have no set goals and whose dictionaries consists of only 3 words - Fun, Fun and only fun. The girl (Soha Ali Khan) also hangs around with them. A British girl, Sue (Alice Putton), comes to India with dreams of making a documentary on the freedom fighters Chandrashekar Azad, Bhagath Singh, Bismillah Khan and Durgamaa. She is the granddaughter of a merciful British police officer during the struggle. She sees these characters in these guys and decides to cast them in her feature. But she finds her hopes shattered when the group is at constant loggerheads with an activist (Atul Kulkarni). Somehow DJ ensures her that they would do the movie for her. Atul also gets involved in the making as one more character and the formation of a bond of friendship between him and the group is portrayed beautifully.
Enter Ajay Singh (Madhavan) an ace IAF recruit. He is betrothed to Soha. At one point he dies in an air crash and the defense minister imputes the incident to Ajay’s carelessness rather than accepting the outdated MIG-21 fighter as the chief reason for the crash. The group goes on a strike with Ajay’s mom asking the DM to resign and as a natural process are beaten black and blue by the police. Only then do they realize the other side of life and decide to kill the DM. How they justify their act and ignite the flame of revolution among the youth forms the rest. This is blended with incidents from the struggle depicting the bravery of our freedom fighters.
On the acting front the first mention goes to Siddharth. He has given an out and out matured role completely different from the playboy image of “boys” and “ayitha ezhitu”. Eloquence in the language accentuates his potential. The highlight is Aamir taking the backseat and permitting as much screen space to the lesser known faces. The rest of the cast including veterans like Waheeda Rehman, Om Puri and Anupam kher provide ample support to the proceedings
Music is damn rocking. AR rehaman after a dull phase in 2005( disasters with “kisna”,”rising”, “Ah Aah” etc) has made the perfect comeback. We all know his dexterity in patriotic themes and this album bears complete testimony to this fact. Keeping fingers crossed for “godfather”,”sivaji” and “dasavatharam”- his forthcoming albums.
In a nutshell RDB is a movie for the youth who have the patriotic fire burning within them and well, also for those who don’t possess it for 100% entertainment.
DJ (Aamir), Karan (Siddharth), Aslam (Kunal kapoor) and Sukhi (don’t know his name) are a bunch of cool dudes who care for nothing, have no set goals and whose dictionaries consists of only 3 words - Fun, Fun and only fun. The girl (Soha Ali Khan) also hangs around with them. A British girl, Sue (Alice Putton), comes to India with dreams of making a documentary on the freedom fighters Chandrashekar Azad, Bhagath Singh, Bismillah Khan and Durgamaa. She is the granddaughter of a merciful British police officer during the struggle. She sees these characters in these guys and decides to cast them in her feature. But she finds her hopes shattered when the group is at constant loggerheads with an activist (Atul Kulkarni). Somehow DJ ensures her that they would do the movie for her. Atul also gets involved in the making as one more character and the formation of a bond of friendship between him and the group is portrayed beautifully.
Enter Ajay Singh (Madhavan) an ace IAF recruit. He is betrothed to Soha. At one point he dies in an air crash and the defense minister imputes the incident to Ajay’s carelessness rather than accepting the outdated MIG-21 fighter as the chief reason for the crash. The group goes on a strike with Ajay’s mom asking the DM to resign and as a natural process are beaten black and blue by the police. Only then do they realize the other side of life and decide to kill the DM. How they justify their act and ignite the flame of revolution among the youth forms the rest. This is blended with incidents from the struggle depicting the bravery of our freedom fighters.
On the acting front the first mention goes to Siddharth. He has given an out and out matured role completely different from the playboy image of “boys” and “ayitha ezhitu”. Eloquence in the language accentuates his potential. The highlight is Aamir taking the backseat and permitting as much screen space to the lesser known faces. The rest of the cast including veterans like Waheeda Rehman, Om Puri and Anupam kher provide ample support to the proceedings
Music is damn rocking. AR rehaman after a dull phase in 2005( disasters with “kisna”,”rising”, “Ah Aah” etc) has made the perfect comeback. We all know his dexterity in patriotic themes and this album bears complete testimony to this fact. Keeping fingers crossed for “godfather”,”sivaji” and “dasavatharam”- his forthcoming albums.
In a nutshell RDB is a movie for the youth who have the patriotic fire burning within them and well, also for those who don’t possess it for 100% entertainment.
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