Guru

Went for a movie after quite some time. Movies tickets in Bangalore cost a bomb & you gotta be pretty sure about the kind of movie you're going in for. So when Sid returned from Delhi (where he had gone for his visa stamping) after having watched it & recommended it, we made up our minds.

The movie has it's strengths (you wouldn't expect a Mani Ratnam movie to be lame, would you?), but falls short on the entertainment front. Abhishek acts really well throughout & Ash looks good in parts. Abhishek's last scene where he addresses the members of an inquiry commission brings forth memories of the great Lambu more than once. The songs are shot well, but totally serve to interrupt the flow of the narration. However, the surprise package of the movie for me was Mithun. Give him a good role & he delivers ..... super!

The movie ends with the kind of message that ToI is professing these days with it's 'India Poised' campaign. When Gurukant says, "Duniya se keh do, hum aa rahe hain", it makes one feel special ..... for the simple reason that it makes one realize that we are living at a time when the country (& it's fortunes) finally seem to be on the upswing, kinda like watching history being made ..... kya?

Call me naive, but that's what I'd like to believe.