so it's back to rage against the system!!

Rang De Basanti...great music...some pretty good camera movements...youthful...at times witty script...

well...let's see...rage against the system has always been a popular choice in Bollywood what with amitabh bachchan in Zanjeer...but then most films then were about fighting the system from within the system...then we came to the glorious period of the underworld..where a parallel system of governance had become acceptable only coz the system had failed...with Ram Gopal Varma...there was even a kind of psychoanalysis done on the underworld...a necessary evil(?)

and then there was Lakshya...all about a super cool generation...searching for...well...searching...let's put it at that...

we had a yuva which was all about idealism...

and now we have Rang De Basanti...again about a generation that is still searching...wants to rebel...but what do we rebel against? after all, we are the generation that has it all..how would i describe the film? well...kitschy, energetic, naive and a little over the top!!

apolitically political...civilian rage against the system...the popular middle class refrain, " sab politicians ko line se goli maar dena chahiye!" and the regular complaints about the system having failed, and the same old problems...and a sense of hopelessness alongwith it...so now we have identified the target of our rebellion which is corrupt people in power...now pander to the middle class sentiment and see how it does at the box office... like the Rj in the film says, " It's all so unreal man!" but it's all so believable and heady thanks to the power of the celluloid!!

on second thoughts... maybe that's the way we like it...over the top!!