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I totally LOVED Rang de Basanti. I thought it was clever and slick in more or less all respects. At par with international movies and better in execution than many international counterparts. I will not demean the movie by comparing it to any of our Indian movies, which are mostly either low budget, badly edited, unnecessarily self indulgent (that's pardonable to a certain extent), boring, or marriage videos. This is a movie that holds its own against all others. Admit it or not, it compels you to take cinema and the money at stake - seriously.
No wonder it is being lauded as it is. For those dissing it, I think it is totally retarded to watch a movie looking for solutions to our problems. Now, Mehra saw the protagonists of his movie behaving in a certain way. They were not the wisest of our lot, so we can not expect a brilliant solution to their problems from them. They were just the average, laid back, escapist, fun loving, college going people caught in a sudden personal catastrophe, opting for a rash kill, admission, and unwarranted deaths.
I had heard of small town folks worshipping TV/movie stars for their characters, taking them for what they played on screen, and going bonkers about each thing they did. Something Raghu Romeoesque. But, educated people shouldn't, really.
Oh, I forgot what I was actually gonna preach. Good for you. Hmph!
On a different note, I found an apartment that pleased all my senses. It is a bit far from my office, a bit over budget, and a bit too big, but I SO loved it that I took it. I still think it is kinda bargain, you know. I mean 8,000/- for a 1200 sq ft house in Bangalore, 2 years agreement, 50k deposit, is a steal! It has 2 balconies, a washing area, awesome woodwork. My favorite are the kitchen and the dining area. The designs are almost straight out of my drawings for my own house (whenever I do build one). The locality is great. All apartments; no slums or smelly dumps; nicely ventillated. Oh, I can just go on. I have a sneaky suspicion that I got this bargain because I am a Bong. Yeah, the landlord is a Bong from Hyderabad :P Now, all I need to do is find some reliable movers and move sometime the EOM or beginning of March.
YAY!
No wonder it is being lauded as it is. For those dissing it, I think it is totally retarded to watch a movie looking for solutions to our problems. Now, Mehra saw the protagonists of his movie behaving in a certain way. They were not the wisest of our lot, so we can not expect a brilliant solution to their problems from them. They were just the average, laid back, escapist, fun loving, college going people caught in a sudden personal catastrophe, opting for a rash kill, admission, and unwarranted deaths.
I had heard of small town folks worshipping TV/movie stars for their characters, taking them for what they played on screen, and going bonkers about each thing they did. Something Raghu Romeoesque. But, educated people shouldn't, really.
Oh, I forgot what I was actually gonna preach. Good for you. Hmph!
On a different note, I found an apartment that pleased all my senses. It is a bit far from my office, a bit over budget, and a bit too big, but I SO loved it that I took it. I still think it is kinda bargain, you know. I mean 8,000/- for a 1200 sq ft house in Bangalore, 2 years agreement, 50k deposit, is a steal! It has 2 balconies, a washing area, awesome woodwork. My favorite are the kitchen and the dining area. The designs are almost straight out of my drawings for my own house (whenever I do build one). The locality is great. All apartments; no slums or smelly dumps; nicely ventillated. Oh, I can just go on. I have a sneaky suspicion that I got this bargain because I am a Bong. Yeah, the landlord is a Bong from Hyderabad :P Now, all I need to do is find some reliable movers and move sometime the EOM or beginning of March.
YAY!