i saw this movie...rang de basanti. i liked it. do not ask why because i cannot tell...maybe it was the sum which i thought was greater than the parts...
i've heard and discussed and arged and fought about the begninning and the end, the pre-interval and the post-interval and what is right and what is wrong, and what is correct and what is not...
i do not care because for once i hear in the 'mainstream', the 'masala movie of the 'masses' the echo of how i would say...i will not go quietly into the night...
now i do not say we have never had bollowood movies like this before but they were either not mainstream but pseudo documentarial serious dramatic expressions on community or region specific issues featuring serious dramatic actors and crafted by serious dramatic film makers OR, were unidimensional juvenile masala movies with native rambos and larger than life phoolanesque clones...
the sum of my feelings come from taking an issue that is alive and real and playing characters i can identify with around it, characters who are forceful and not doing what they are doing because they are like sunday school choirboys but because the fates play them sqaurely against this whole big issue they might have known of earlier but had nothing to do with...
and faced with it they do not cower from the 'system' as generations of similar movies taught us to do but say... hell am going to something about it...hell someone (the villain) is going to get away with something like that...
point is not what they did...that is not what i thought the movie was trying to say...point is that such 'villains' exist and exist in droves...and that i'll do something about it...i'll not go quietly into the night...