Rang of Basanthi

Yeah, thats my poor French joke on Rang De Basanti. This is what went thru my mind as I was watching the movie:

• First you think, "okay this is an 'enemy' perspective at Bhagat Singh movie" (the general's dairies and all that)...
• then you think its about "an English girl making a movie with Indian cast",
• then you think "Oh! man its a 5 person version of Dil Chahta Hai",
• then you think "May be they do want to shoot a Bhagat Singh movie"
• then you think "Why Bhagat Singh for the nth time on Hindi Screen man?"
• then you think "Okay, this guy wants to deal with some issues of India too",
• then you think "Oh! NO Why does this guy want to talk about every issue India has?"
• then you think "The Bhagat Singh analogy is over stretching man"
• then you think "Thank God! Its atleast funny occasionally"
• then you think "They are going to get this Madhavan dude killed, man"
• then you think "Enough of Sepia man! Enough of the analogy crap! Dont start making a complete mess out of it"
• then you think "Oh! Well Congrats Mr. Mehra, you have officially stepped into the crap zone"
• then you think "Mr.Mehra has well passed the finish line in crap zone..entering bullshit zone"
• then you think "Now stop bullshitting me"
• then you think "There is something called Electricity to pull the AIR signal out of air"
• then you think "NDTV is doing a lot of product placement"
• then you think "You go on a plane and make a joke that you have a gun. You'll know how sane the commandos are"
• then you think "Enough of it man. This Amir dude gets shot and drags himself across India to reach the studio again"
• then you think "Ah! well, this Mehra wants somebody to wakeup. But why does he make a pretense of making a revenge story a national issue?"
• then you think "Ah! Now he makes a pretense of the movie being about MIGs"
• All in all, Dont try to summarize this movie too many times. You end up in the experience of watching a montage of short films with different themes but the same cast.