RDB!

I watched the movie Rang De Basanti today, a movie I have been wanting to watch for a long time now. It was one of the finest cross over movies I've watched in recent times! Though a number of such movies are made, they are not sellable because of the lack of star power. Thanks to Aamir Khan the movie was able to pull the initial crowd and sustain because of its technical superiority, good screenplay and above all great background score by the maestro. Aamir has done a great job by simply agreeing to be part of the project unlike other Indian actors who care more about their image than the quality of the movie.

I feel a movie like this succeeded where other good movies like Swades failed because in Swades the director fresh out of a historical tries to cater to the masses as well, he tries to weave in a love story with numerous songs and consequently many dull moments, but here the director Rakeysh Mehra, who second film it is has done a good job allowing no boring moment in the movie. Incidently his first movie was Aks which was quite boring!

The movie also stars Madhavan Ranganathan, Soha Ali Khan Pataudi, Siddharth Narayanan, Atul Kulkarni, Kiron & Anupam Kher and a host of others including a firangi whose name I cant remember.

I learnt that Shah Rukh Khan was the first choice for Madhavan's role, and Hrithik Roshan was the original choice for Sidharth's. It would have been an epic had the three reigning superstars(Aamir,SRK and Hrithik) shared the screen and maybe Amitabh as the villain!!;)

The movie concludes with the followig statement:
MiG Fighter Planes have served our country since 1964 and have been instrumental in winning us wars.

However over the last 15 years, 206 MiG planes have crashed and 78 pilots have lost their lives.

In their memory and in honour of our Air Bourne Warriors who have laid down their lives for our country.