RDB - The movie

The first line of any conversation in any part of India over the past month is most likely to have been "U watched RDB yet?" .. Such has been the impact of the movie on this nation and its youth in particular.

So what makes the movie so special?

One of the biggest pluses that the movie can boast of is how thoroughly natural the dialogues are. This provides for the movie to have a bigger impact as the dialogues are more in the language of today's generation than in some archaic form of Hindi. One of the fascinating aspects of the movie is that almost all the scenes are pretty original in their content and picturisation. The director deserves kudos for the manner in which he seamlessly merges the scenes from the present and past. Especially spectacular is the scene in which Atul Kulkarni and Kunal Kapoor (in their historical characters)converse about how it is everyone's India and does not belong to any community of people.

At a time when the youth of the nation have increasingly been struggling to identify themselves with the freedom struggle RDB presents an opportunity for us to reflect even for just a few minutes the struggle that established the nation that we live in.

Any movie is not perfect and though the director attempts to make RDB not another movie, the second half tends to give the impression that at the end of it all the commercial aspects can never be ignored (not a big fault). However a few other negatives do exist in the movie. One of them is how the party lines of the corrupt Minister is never in doubt. (was this done to get the movie through the present regime?). Also the violent manner in which a peaceful protest is broken up makes no logical sense. And I suppose terrosists would wish that it's so damn easy to do off with the Indian Defence Minister.

Over all.. A bold movie which promised a lot and delivers quite a bit of it.

P.S : I would like to thank the entire cast and crew Of RDB who have helped me break a 88 day silence on my blog.