Movie Review: Rann

Truth is Terrible

RUNN AWAY!! That is all I can say to somebody who’s planning to go watch RGV’s latest flick: Rann. It seems he has tried to do a Madhur Bhandarkar with it, but failed miserably. Even the presence of Amitabh Bachhan has not been able to lift the standard of the movie.

I have so many questions that I would like to ask RGV: what is Rajpal Yadav doing in the movie? (when you set out to make an intense movie, you don’t put in Rajpal Yadav for comic relief). What is the role of Nitu Chandra?(except for showing her cleavage and legs that is). And this is the best: Why does Purab(Riteish D) always wear a pullover-shirt combination to his office?(there’s certainly no dress-code). But what I’d like to ask him most is, what was he thinking when he made this movie!!

The movie starts pretty good, the opening sequence has a horror-movie-like feel and is quite slick. But it seems RGV has tried to keep that same feel throughout the movie. With the camera mostly, if not always, hidden behind something or the other, people going in and out of focus and profusion of dark shadows; after a while, you feel like you are watching a sting operation of some kind.  Too many characters is also a problem RGV has not been able to handle. Amitabh B, Paresh Rawal, Rajat Kapoor, Reteish D, Gul Panag, Nitu Chandra, Rajpal Yadav…the list goes on (and I’m not even counting a lot many character artists). In an attempt to juggle so many characters, RGV has not been able to do justice to anybody. Riteish D spends most of his time doing detective work on his motorbike. Amitabh B seems more like a preacher than the head of a large media channel; his son (played by somebody who’s a decent enough actor) is obsessed with his cigarette lighter (again RGV’s obsession with making his actors play with small objects, as if showing how a person swirls a drink in his glass is the sole object of making a movie)  and nitu chandra doesn’t have clothes to wear, so she spends most of her time in nighties only…wait!!  there’s someone who looks like Rajat Kapoor too, but he spends most of his time calling up people and acting as a message delivery boy.

The editing seems slack, the music ok,  the dialogues monologueish and a bit too clisht (hindi for “pure/bookish/heavy”), the characters try too hard and end up being too “filmy”. The talents of Mr. Bachhan and Paresh Rawal have been completely wasted, though Riteish has done pretty well. The story is pretty good; a twist of the conventional corrupt politician-ethical hero theme, the actors are very good. Given to any other director (I would not like to speculate who), editor-cinematographer team and a little revamping of dialogues could have turn it into a riveting drama.

My Rating: 2/5 (that too because of some good sequences by Riteish and Paresh Rawal)

RUNN AWAY!!!

Posted by Swapnil Ghosh on Jan 31 2010. Filed under Entertainment. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry