much hype about very little substance

Rating: 6/10 (18 February 2006)

Hearing all the praise and glory generated by this movie, I went in hoping to see a quality movie. What i found though was a very ordinary bollywood movie with a naive, almost childish plot development. The concept was promising and it could have been handled in a mature thought provoking way - instead it was reduced to the farce of a bunch of good-for-nothing college students pretending to the legacy of Bhagat Singh and his comrades. Nothing about this movie makes it deserve to have anything to do with the memory of these legendary freedom fighters. To its credit, most people who liked the movie likely came away with do-good, improve-the-situation type of sentiments, but that does not make up for the mediocrity of the whole experience. A more apt title for this movie - 'thodi bhang de basanti'
sanjay.