Mittwoch, 3. März 2010

"Rann" - When Media Starts Playing Politics

Rann is a Hindi word which means "Battle". A movie based on political drama and media coverage in the country. How dirty politics can get and how corrupt media can get! And who loses, the people of the country who get sandwiched between all this political drama and ultimately have to pay a heavy price for the greed of a few individuals.

Movie begins with the ideology of the character played by Amitabh shown, how he is always supporting and showing nothing but truth on his News Channel and how his channel is losing TRP coz the news is not sensationalized enough. People in his channel, his employees; even his own son is not happy about it and want to sensationalize issues, so they get better TRPs and money in the long run.

This greed to become the number one news channel forces Amitabh's Son Jai to get involved with a corrupt politician and industrialist and twist around the facts to make the news hot and happening. This ultimately leads to the politician winning the general elections and becoming the Prime Minister of the country. But among all these people is one true journalist, who has grown up watching Amitabh and has learnt his values and ideology from him. He smells a dead rat and sets about to investigate on his own.

Does he succeed in finding enough proof? Does he manage to convince Amitabh about the guilt of his son? Or is he also silenced by death like many others? That's all the story is about.

This movie is a typical Ram Gopal Verma movie when it comes to direction, dark and shady. Varied camera angles, which is so typical of RGV. Amitabh's talent is much wasted in the movie; he could have been used to do so much more. It's an out and out Riteish Deshmukh movie, he is the central character and he is the one who is true and devoted to his profession and sets about investigating the truth. They could have made this movie much more interesting and far-reaching to the audience. The message is conveyed but the lecture given by Amitabh towards the end of the movie, makes no impact at all and actually dulls down the message they could have conveyed minus the lecture in the end.

Audience now-a-days is intelligent enough and what do these directors think? They think audience would appreciate if they over-look small & silly points like not using a pair of gloves when you enter someone's house and touch everything around, when that person is wanted by the Police? You show the entire movie, sequence of events and let the audience derive the message and learning, why do you have to give a 5 minute long lecture and bore the audience?

All and all just an average movie, concept was good but it lacked the appeal!

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