Rang de basanti....under de lens...too late....but still....

First of all...if v r goin to compare this movie n value it based on its peer-movies....v better not....reasons....there's no point in comparin anythin with somethin supremely inferior in quality to show how good it is....its better to hold it up againts some quality stuffs n then c if it does belong to the same class....

the director deserves applause for giving us an entertainin movie, which v can definitely watch with our minds in the right place than leavin it behind in the closet...at no point in the movie do v actaully get bored....

casting - grt work done here....roles are assigned aptly to actors selected from many languages....n character of each person is etched carefully....minute details about the characters can be seen taken care in detail in many scenes....the most impressive being sidhaarth's....notice his reactions n expressions during every small casual conversation, in all the scenes wher he's not the lead....perfectly potrayed is his role of a rich, no-nonsense guy who actually is very sentimental on the inside....
say for ex: his reaction in the scene where all the guys r making fun of madhavan n soha....
his behaviour in the runnin race which comes during one of the songs wher he jus casually continues walkin not being bothered about anyone or anythin....

the usage of songs in the movie is very good....the situations where the songs r placed r perfect....esp the song roobaroo.... n the songs jus being used in the background n not the actual audio-video-song pattern is a definite relief....

ARR's music suits the movie very well....songs are in a wide variety of genres ranging from melody to rap to kahwali to soft rock....all of them are very refreshing n come wit a feel-good factor...my pick is khoon chala....beautiful, dilicate melody...superb singin n violins....this is the song which kept lingerin in my mind for almos a week after the movie watchin n stil keeps me singin the lines "zameen se lipatkar...."
the background score for the movie is good, except for a few small blunders(like playin a techno-kinda beat for a scene on the independance struggle)....but predominantly the BGM is very supportive to the visual...the use of elec guitar wit distortion at some scenes have a great impact n enhances the impact of the visual....

the performance by every actor is good....the movie can never be called an aamir-movie...its got equal,important inputs from all the lead characters...even secondary characters lik cyrus, amir's mom, sid's dad, the long hair guy's(imran i think) family, etc have exhibited precise good actin...

the movie sucessfully manages to question and arouse some re-thinking on some social n political issues like the mig-mania and religion based fundamentalist groups like vhp, muslim league,...
well....give it a pat on the back for all this...

Wat the movie aims to do is to provide solutions to problems like the above...basically counter-corruption moves....here it fails badly and converges again to the same old solution of killing as the only answer...this is a non-relistic filmi impractical solution....n how many movies have v seen aleady which have all said the same...indian,anniyan,samurai,ramana....jus to name a few....n the way soha says "MAAR DALO" n our boys go out n execute the order with ease....bravery huh???give us a break!!!

One more scene(its a very small one though)which i think is completely out of sync with the movie is the scene towards the end where the firang lady comes in search of the missing aamir,to his house n finds that his mom is completely unaware tat her son is missing(mom jus thinks tat the son is out with his friends even though he hasn returned for 2 days)....at the end of this scene the sacred thread around mom's finger snaps n she gets worried about her son... n it follows tat amir is indeed in deep trouble....now...wat the movie shows throughout is that some old systems and beliefs have to be re-thought and changed...its true that some old religious beliefs r scientifically correct...but many of them are superstitious and things like these do not support the idea of revamping n changing some old systems....n this scene(or incident)is one such one which totally opposes the thinking-pattern of the movie...

if the movie could have come up with a better conclusion then i would have given it a bow in praise....but now it gets a hit on the head for screwing up wat could have been a completely mind blowing movie....

Rating:****

last reason why u have to watch the movie(in case if it did not arouse any intrst in u n there r no other of ur fav movies runnin):THERE'S NO HIMMESH!!!SO THERE R NO HIGH-DECIBEL NASAL MOANINGS!!!