youthful colors

Sunday was a good movie day. Thanks to pre-planning by Sri, got to see a good bollywood movie after quite sometime.
"Rang De Basanti". Colorful, vivid, vibrant. The actors had done a good job of portraying the carefree attitude of the youth. The english lady was interesting (?). The music was of course phenomenal and very engaging. While the whole plot was captivating till after the intermission, a better ending could have been shaped. It was almost as if the director ran out of time while making the movie and decided to call it the end, no matter how the movie ended. Towards the end of the movie, everyone in the audience were guessing the moves, more out of curiosity than out of interest. Aamir Khan's acting was again out of the world. I was really moved in the scene where he breaks down to the english lady after he and his friends clash with the police. The only other scene that had moved me so much was enacted by him in DCH (a religion for a few of us) where he breaks down to his dad giving up his ego.

In all, the director had done a fantastic job of bringing India so close to us. The movie reminded me of a lot of things that are so unique, wonderful and sooo Indian. It reminded me of the colors we see there and we so much take for granted, of different traditions and customs, of the smell of mud and dust :), of movies filled with songs, of mother's cooking, of government (for staying politically correct, I refrain from explaining this), of public transportation, of railways, of my college life..I lived in India for those 3 hours and was transported back! Great job!