Sun 29 Jan 2006
Why is Rang De Basanti(RDB), a bollywood flick, on the dp blog? See it and you will know. RDB rocks. I saw it today. It just didn’t rock. It shook me to the core. Rang De Basanti rocks and lives you pondering about your role to this world. If you have a theatre near you that is showing it, I really highly recommend you see it and talk about it. Even though the film was based on the Indian social backdrop but it is all the more true in today’s Bangladesh. Without spoiling anything for people who haven’t seen it, I think the last time I was so moved by a movie was when I was 14 and saw Dead Poet’s Society. When will our generation awake like this?
For those who have seen it, I am dying to share it with someone. What a movie!
January 30th, 2006 at 4:27 pm
I will be seeing this soon. The tag ” Awakening of a generation” really grabbed my attention. I feel the same way - when will our generation wake up and take things into our own hands? Or has life boxed us into our little spaces to the point we don’t care?
January 31st, 2006 at 10:17 pm
One of the best movies I have ever seen! In some ways I wish the movie came out may be 10 years from now or so..
Please take a look at this article which has been published even before the movie was out.. I guess the article would send a deeper meaning to the “after” viewers..
http://www.mukto-mona.com/Articles/tarik_sayeed/constructive_revolution01102006.htm
Thanks,
Tarik Sayeed..
A Constructive Revolution
Tarik Sayeed
Published on January 10, 2006
Our country is nothing but marginal, defective and defensive about its corrupted political system. Corruption has always been and continues to be our most powerful grievances. Does our country need an uprising to break the existing political system? I think so and do not think there is any other road but revolution.
February 19th, 2006 at 11:57 pm
Who ever sees the movie is shaken for the first few days. S/he will move around pondering over options of coming out of this. Will discuss with friends, write blogs, send emails. Soon the exam time table will be announced, the main worry will be getting that practical cleared, will ask the lab assistant out for a chai, will promise “some thing” more for his help in practicles, may be tickets for RDB(-:
As stated “Ek pawn future par, aur ek pawn past par rakhke, present par moot rahen hain”. Chraibeti, Chraibeti.
March 13th, 2006 at 5:51 pm
A question for Bengali-Bangladeshi-Americans: has anybody seen the film Crash? I was emotionally devastated by one scene where a shop owner, who blames the locksmith for his shop being robbed and vandalised, goes to the locksmiths home to shoot him, and as he is about shoot the locksmith, the locksmiths 3/4 years old daughter comes running out of the house…
March 13th, 2006 at 9:56 pm
‘crash’ did exactly what its name implies — it totally crashed my sense of arrogant self-reference….the scene you mention is one of the many moments that so drove home the point to me that we as individuals are often so unaware of what circumstances have shaped others’ viewpoints/beliefs….was very glad (but surprised) to see it get oscars…
on that note, has anyone seen ‘page 3′ — one of the most inspirational and realistic films i have seen….somewhere in the movie it goes “to change the system, you have to be in system”….touche!
March 14th, 2006 at 6:36 am
I’ve been listening to an African-American rapper (or is it a collective?) know as the Immortal Technique. Immortal Technique warns us about that in the system you will eventually become the system.
March 14th, 2006 at 10:56 am
catch–22….(sigh)….one can’t be outside the system to change it, but one can’t be so deeply ingrained that the system changes one….quite an impossible cycle if you ask me….no wonder, paradigm shifts are so difficult….