Rang de Basanthi, the second half why i liked it and all that

I am a huge movie buff, not only movies but also theater. The idea of writing a screenplay and transforming it to the screen just fascinates me. Its a different kind of art, an art that needs team work. All other arts (except to an extent music)be it painting, novel writing etc is extremely personal.

I liked Rang de Basanthi. Its an extremely well made movie. A lot of people did not identify with the second half, because either it was too unreal or too dramatic. I think the movie would not have been so good if it didnt take that unreal path. The whole build up of the movie was by drawing up a parallel between the revolutionaries and today's young india. The movie constantly reminded us that the slavery to english is as bad as slavery to corruption. So any undramatic climax or even a mellowed down climax would have killed the movie.

And apart from the context within the movie itself, i think we have become a passive nation. Except the recent jessica lal case , the outrage for injustice in out country is very muted. A little murmur here and a little murmur there is all that we get. I think it was an attempt of the makers in their own way to tell us to become more active, to become more involved, to get into ourselves a sense of anger.
More rang de basanthi's in bollywood please, its a step in the right direction