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Tuesday, February 9, 2010

RGV's RANN

I have always liked to watch movies directed by Ram Gopal Varma. I watch his movies because he has this ability to surprise the audience with his kind of story telling. I have read people write that RGV can make three genres of movies
1) Under World (Satya, Company, Sarkar, Sarkar Raj)
2) Horror (Raat, Bhoot, Phoonk)
3) Musicals (Rangeela, Naach, Mast)
But following RGV's movies for a good period of time, I think he makes two categories of films.
1) Serious
2) Experimental
The difference between the two categories would be the story, screen play, star cast and budget selected. To give an example Satya was experimental (turned out to be successful) but Company was serious (Experiment was successful so tried to master it with a different view @ the same topic).In his Serious movies, he has a plot and he is well prepared starting from star cast, budget etc where as in his experimental films like Phoonk, Agyaat, Darling mostly goes by his instincts. Some of his experimental movies became huge hits when he thought he became a master he failed because he couldn't surprise the audience.
Generally, I do not prefer to read reviews of the film that I would definitely like to watch; so I would read them after I watch the movie to find the gaps.
I had a chance to watch the movie RANN yesterday and after watching the movie, I read the reviews.
Full Hyderabad- Deepa Review
Bollywood Hungama - Taran Adarsh Review
Rediff - Sukanya Verma Review
India Glitz Review
Bollywood Hungama's review is exaggerated Taran kind of gets biased reviewing Big movies, Rediff's Sukanya Verma didn't like the movie, Full Hyd Deepa's review was too difficult to understand for a regular movie buff, I thought the India Glitz's review was kind of close to my thinking. The movie had a tight screenplay, good background score, commendable performances from the lead cast (Big B, Sudeep, Riteish, and Paresh) but the main story had its own flaws. Few to mention are
A) Harshvardhan Malik doesn't try to verify and validate the news (or check within his publishing team if it was manipulated) before he publishes in front of the camera to the whole world.
b)Nobody investigates about the news read by Harshvardhan Malik(except for Purab)but everybody(public, other news channels etc) believe him without any questions.(No media person interviews or no cop interrogates him for making such a serious statement)
c) Jai Malik doesn't investigate how the programs that his channel was planning to telecast are being telecasted by other channels.
D) Expected Climax (Suicide, Purab to take charge, etc)

You could still watch the movie for the performances put in by the principal starcast and captivated screenplay.