tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33782366.post115929920684343649..comments2023-10-31T14:24:40.011+05:30Comments on Keep Talking: Rang De Basanti at the Oscars...Zeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02124938389441103859noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33782366.post-1159379947082514722006-09-27T23:29:00.000+05:302006-09-27T23:29:00.000+05:30I doubt that movies have as great a hold over a co...I doubt that movies have as great a hold over a country's imagination as they do in ours.<BR/>So what shirks a nation's patriotism awake - a beer totting aamir khan (probably why he needed to be larger than life) !!! and what reconnects gandhism to modern india( despite umpteen textbooks devoted to the same) a mumbaiya mouthing bhai with a heart , despite the fact that in reality he is currenty facing charges of abetting a bombing!!!! <BR/>we're a nation that only connects to reality in 70 mm!!<BR/>My favourite scenes - <BR/>the screen freezing on aamir and siddarth laughing in the last scene at the radio station <BR/>the flashbacks - with the strains of khalbali in the background<BR/>atul kulkarni joining the horde<BR/><BR/>and siddarth saluting india gate..ofcourse...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33782366.post-1159338563094788802006-09-27T11:59:00.000+05:302006-09-27T11:59:00.000+05:30I know man!! One can totally relate and empathize ...I know man!! One can totally relate and empathize with the characters... walk into any college and there'll be a group like that! I also agree that Aamir Khan was the only one who looked a tad bit larger than life.. the others may as well have been one of your friends.. and that is why the movie was also so influential on the youth (I dont qualify even by my own definition anymore!).. coz they thought "someone like us" can start a mini-revolution, then why cant we? <BR/><BR/>And yeah the India Gate scene made people re-discover the grandeur that had been lost on the new generation! (Goodness I sound old!)Still Searchinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16771129066300765626noreply@blogger.com