Rang De Basanti

Saw Rang De Basanti on Friday night. The movie is phenomenal. Now there are few movies which hit you so hard that after watching the movie you shut your mouth and think "What am I doing?" This is one of them.

Movie is about few friends from Delhi University who have no aim in life, are real happy and masti marofy, no pain to anyone and just chill attitude. There is this girl who comes from UK to make a movie on Bhagat Singh, Rajguru, Sukhdev, Chandrashekhar Aazad and Ram Prasad Bismill. Because of low funds she hires them and tries to fit them in the Freedom Fighter's shoes. But the group is not able to relate to what the Freedom Fighters had done till something happens to one of their friends. This changes their lives completely. They now want to stand for a cause and fight for thier friend's lost image and identity. Doing this they also ask the nation's youth to question themselves as to what they are doing. I guess thats the mesage of the movie. They say "kuch dhamaka hona chahiye, tabhi log samjhenge aur jagenge" and they do the dhamaka and the nation awakens.

Aamir is DJ (Daljit Singh) and a Delhi University passout but still stays in the campus because he says "University ke gate ke is taraf DJ ki koi aukaat hai, DJ ko koi pehchanta hai. Gate ke us taraf koi aukaat nahi. University ke gate ke is taraf life ko hum chalate hain aur gate ke us taraf, life hum ko chalati hai" Sali kya baat boli hai DJ, tu cha gaya yaar!!! Ekdum god level baat. May be thats the reason I keep going back to IIT as much as I can. Who knows. Pata nahi.

Its full of fun in the first half and lots of gyan in second half.

In one of the scenes Aamir comes back from hospital after shocking incidents happen to him and his friends. He tries to eat food and the roti doesnt go below his throat. Phenomenal acting by Aamir Khan. I guess thats why he is where he is. Brilliant actor!!!

Soha Ali (Sonia) has done a great role too. Doesnt look like a new comer. Very comfortable and very matured as an actor, with that Sharmila Tagore look.

Excellent roles by Kunal Kapoor (Aslam), Sharman Joshi (Sukhi), Atul Kulkarni (Laxman Pandey), Madhavan (Ft. Lt. Ajay), Waheeda Rehman (Ajay's Mom), Anupam Kher (big shot businessman), Om Puri (Aslam's Father) and Kiron Kher (DJ's mom) but the surprise was Siddharth (Karan). Magnificent performance by him. In one of the scenes he gives a 500 rupee note to some arbit guy, his friend asks him why did he give the money, in reply he says "Baap ka paisa hai, pada pada saad jaata." Ha Ha Ha, saala kameena. Doesnt talk much, speaks through his eyes. Gave a slight touch of Ajay Devgun. Was great!!!

Alice Patten was great as Sue. Looks very pretty and very humble. RDB is not like other Hindi movies showing most of the "gori chamdi" as "kutta kameenas". She looked very sweet with that broad smile. :-) And also lots of colors of Punjab and north India thrown in, with excellent music. A movie everyone should watch.

I loved it.

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