RDB

I went to see RDB today. Reached Chanakya 10 mins before the show and just like always, the BALCONY tickets had “sold” out. So quickly conferring with my brother on the going rate of the black tickets, I managed to get hold of 3 tickets behind a parked car for 400 bucks.
The movie itself was fun, an artist’s imagination of what would happen if we explore an option, an option that was explored by our freedom fighters, and yes the ideology of trying to make a difference. I could hear people talk about how killing a Defence Minister is not that simple etc. but I think they’ve missed the whole point of the movie. Its not a movie about a gang of students who kill the defence minister and then are killed by the commandos, it’s a movie about people who

1. Understand the results of their actions


2. Decide that they have to do something rather than just sit around and say that nothing gets happened.


3. Find a meaning to their life.

Cinematography of this movie worth mentioning, Eastman colored clippings transport you back to another era, the clippings sometimes falling in place a little later in the movie like Bismillah being captured by the soldiers in the swamp, sometimes they were over simplified for the viewers like the one with Jaliawala bagh with the defence minister ordering the shooting.

Talking about individual and team performances, Su was a wise choice to this movie. I mean we ve all seen movies with foreigners but they aren’t half convincing when they don’t speak GOOD hindi (exception Mr. Tom Alter, who is the exception to this rule). Another good choice was the Telugu chap who played Karan Singhania. When I compare him to Madhavan, he loses on the looks factor but his appeal as an actor is much much better than what Madhavan has done in hindi movies. Moveover Madhavan…”no deal”. Talking about the chappie who played Aslam, terrific buddy, it was a difficult part to play because everyone over does it just like they do to full fried eggs, but you handled the role exactly like it was supposed to be. If I were to rank the characters actors in the order of their performances, It would be something like this

1. Karan Singhania


2. Aslam


3. Style waala banda


4. ….


5. ….


6. Aamir Khan


7. Soha Ali Khan

Which brings us to Soha. Soha why? Why? Why did you have to stand out like a sore thumb? Infact if there is anything that consoles me to the fact that this movie could have been perfect and isn’t is the fact that life is not perfect. Soha try harder beta. The only thing that saved Aamir and his tooti frooty punjaabi/hinglish(I still don’t know what dialect he was speaking in… it surely wasn’t Punjabi) was that soha did worse. Baal bal bachche…poof…phoof…

Paisa vasool factors:

1. Aamir’s comedy.