"A generation awakens": the road from partying to murder

Rating: 3/10 (14 September 2006)

Amazing movie. A story about a bunch of rich youth killing a petty minister distantly involved in a rather petty injustice and then getting killed for it - labeled as "awakening of a generation"....wow!
Youth of India, awaken, drop your beer bottles and pick up your guns! It seems that according to the makers of this movie there is not enough violence already going on in India, there is dire need for more, hence let's make a movie glorifying it.
And it's not only the violence. I can very well agree that violence can serve a purpose in extreme situations (fighting for freedom, for example). But counter-posing India's fight for freedom with the pathetic scenario of fighting a system that uses cheap military equipment and thus endangers the lives of a handful of military officers flying their MIGs.....simply pathetic comparison. One one had you have the fate of a nation....and on the other, all they could come up with, from all the myriad of problems of contemporary India, is the issue of 1-2 persons dying because of flying old military planes? Is this something that affects the society at large? Is this REALLY something worth killing for.....or, for that matter, making a movie about? Is this the awakening of the spirit of old freedom fighters in today's partying youth? I mean..common....there sure must be more worthwhile and extensive problems for which to fight against the system..and kill a minister too!
I found the movie to be absolutely pathetic. The visuals were good, the acting was also OK...but the story is simply outrageously petty, and that too depicted in such a grandiose manner that it can only invite scorn. Moreover, I found it to have very little to do with real India, though it claims to be a patriotic movie. None of the real problems or reactions of the people of this country have been as little as brushed by this movie.
What is this "awakening of a generation" thing? As far as I am concerned, and I'm sure most people would agree, drinking and partying is far less dangerous than engaging in mindless revenge-killing. Is this what the youth of India is supposed to do to tackle the problems of this society? Revenge killing? (it's not even like the murder had any other purpose except pure revenge).
There's no awakening of any youth in this movie: It's just a bunch of restless rich college-goers rather naturally drifting from mindless boozing to mindless killing, that's all. And that too while imagining that they are doing some great service to their country. Apparently most of the movie-goers also fell for it. But just step outside the cinema-hall and look around at the REAL problems of this country, and you'll realize that old military planes are most probably very low on the list of priorities, if at all there.