Its an event to remember!

Rating: 10/10 (30 January 2006)

I will always remember the night of 1/27/2005 for I experienced one of the most wonderful movie to have come from Bollywood. After having listened to the soundtrack of the movie repeatedly over the last few weeks I developed an opinion that the movie would be another version of "patriotism remixed" for today's generation to gulp down with pop corn and soda, come out of the theater and continue to crib about what all is wrong with our country. What I experienced was a movie that for once was not "middle of the path" and took a stand of its own. Of course people can debate over whether the stand taken is right or wrong but still the fact remains that a point of view was expressed. This is what mainstream cinema is expected to do. To take an intelligent stand and kick start the public debate. It makes you think... to take one of the central themes of the movie - do something, join the army, IAS, police force - and extend it forward to - whatever you do, think that you are doing it to better the country, whether it is working in a large corporation on serving tea in a railway station stall, if we take pride in what we do and do our jobs honestly we can make a material difference. This is what the country needs. Of course I cannot stop raving about the music, the very intelligently funny edge of the movie, the sepia toned bike rides, the beautiful locales, amazing performances by everyone. This is Oscar material.