Its a beauty - A must watch movie

Rating: 10/10 (3 February 2006)

For those who are yet to watch this movie, beware of any pre-conceived notions: First, its not a patriotic movie, but the tagline could not have been better - "A generation awakens". Second, this movie is not just being pulled by Aamir Khan i.e. this is just not his movie. It is much more than that; each and every character's role has been justified - a bunch of friends, each with a completely different personality from others. The guys (and gal) who just believe in fun/frolic, most of them are afraid of getting out of their college life cocoon, don't have slightest inkling of the real world, are always the first to complain about the system, and at the same time won't take any responsibility.
Hats off to such a good direction by Rakesh Mehra. The way he has presented the idea of transition of wayward youths to something of today's young krantikari (similar that of 1920's pre-independence India) was simply amazing. Its a novel idea, presented brilliantly. A quite colorful movie with a real life touch.
Few people complained to me its not so realistic, its not so easy to kill defense minister; oh! now come on - give them a break. It could not have been more real for a movie.
Apart from that, "spontaneous" dialogues by Prasoon Joshi, presented by Aamir Khan/Sharmaan Joshi were too good. I am really pleased to be able watch such movies from bollywood in my youth, when uptil 5 years ago, it was just that mushy/melodramatic stories. Seriously!! some very good stuff is coming out from the Indian cinema nowadays.