After Sarkar and the much awaited Sarkar Raj, when Ram Gopal Verma was asked why not 'Sarkar III', he said that it'll be easier to answer 'why didn't he?' rather than answering 'why did he?'. After the opposition he faced pre 'RGV ki Aag' and the ridicule he underwent post the movie's release, you can't really blame the guy. Who wouldn't be cautious before making a movie after all of this; possibly being over-catious and practical for RGV.
A 3rd Sarkar does seem highly unlikely, but RGV is back. 'Rann' a multi-starer about media wars is his next. The initial promos and the posters, which seem really interesting, do not give away a lot, but do suggest what the movie is based on. RGV has a tendency to pick off-stream actors in his movies and he continues to do so with this one too. Amitabh Bachchan has experimented beyond his limits in this one it seems. The Woody Allen specks, not really working! But where Big B's new looks have failed, Ritesh Deshmukh has picked up the batton. His new look and a role completely different from his usual comic ones, are quite intriguing.
Though, inspite of the big ensemble and the many new looks, including Paresh Rawal's 'lungi bearing wannabe PM' avatar, the spot light has fallen on the background score heard in the promos. It is claimed to be and does surely sound like a modified version of our National Anthem. Not completely aware, but I guess there is a law or a legislation forbidding any modifications to the Anthem, in the lyrics as well as the duration.
If my memory serves me right, then I think A.R. Rahman was caught up in a similar controversy few years back. As a friend said, there is a limit to creative freedom, but what I fail to understand is why do we have to be so uptight about everything. Everytime someone dares to go the unconventional way, an agency or department seems to crop up out of nowhere vehemently standing in opposition. Do these so called self righteous individuals know that 'Jana Gana Mana' was first sung to welcome King George V to India or when people were pinned up against their Radios at the time of Jawaharlal Nehru's first address at the UN, eagerly waiting for him to speak, they heard "Ladies and gentlemen" instead of something in our own national language. When a diplomat from the smallest country in Africa can speak in his own dialect, then why does every politician/national representative or diplomat say what they have at International forums like the UN, in English and not in Hindi. Why don't these institutions do something about that? I agree that rule and order is required. They're inevitable and the rule of thumb can't really work, but then why this dichotomy for some.
'Rann' is not the first movie to get mired into a controvery pre-release and it surely won't be the last either. Whatever might be the outcome of this controversy, the movie will get sufficient publicity for it; deserved or undeserved, that'll be decided when it finally hits the screens I guess.
Meanwhile, you can have a say of your own. Is it really time for a change? I think it is! But not the change Obama talks about or neither the change which will come if 100 more 18 year olds go and vote. Its a change to decide the limits of creative freedom. If kissing scenes, smoking or showing animals in movies (even scenes where animals are not being harmed but are JUST being shown) are to be kept under the wraps, then the UN better start preparing for a software which converts Hindi to English. Have a look at it yourself, http://www.janaganarann.com/.
A 3rd Sarkar does seem highly unlikely, but RGV is back. 'Rann' a multi-starer about media wars is his next. The initial promos and the posters, which seem really interesting, do not give away a lot, but do suggest what the movie is based on. RGV has a tendency to pick off-stream actors in his movies and he continues to do so with this one too. Amitabh Bachchan has experimented beyond his limits in this one it seems. The Woody Allen specks, not really working! But where Big B's new looks have failed, Ritesh Deshmukh has picked up the batton. His new look and a role completely different from his usual comic ones, are quite intriguing.
Though, inspite of the big ensemble and the many new looks, including Paresh Rawal's 'lungi bearing wannabe PM' avatar, the spot light has fallen on the background score heard in the promos. It is claimed to be and does surely sound like a modified version of our National Anthem. Not completely aware, but I guess there is a law or a legislation forbidding any modifications to the Anthem, in the lyrics as well as the duration.
If my memory serves me right, then I think A.R. Rahman was caught up in a similar controversy few years back. As a friend said, there is a limit to creative freedom, but what I fail to understand is why do we have to be so uptight about everything. Everytime someone dares to go the unconventional way, an agency or department seems to crop up out of nowhere vehemently standing in opposition. Do these so called self righteous individuals know that 'Jana Gana Mana' was first sung to welcome King George V to India or when people were pinned up against their Radios at the time of Jawaharlal Nehru's first address at the UN, eagerly waiting for him to speak, they heard "Ladies and gentlemen" instead of something in our own national language. When a diplomat from the smallest country in Africa can speak in his own dialect, then why does every politician/national representative or diplomat say what they have at International forums like the UN, in English and not in Hindi. Why don't these institutions do something about that? I agree that rule and order is required. They're inevitable and the rule of thumb can't really work, but then why this dichotomy for some.
'Rann' is not the first movie to get mired into a controvery pre-release and it surely won't be the last either. Whatever might be the outcome of this controversy, the movie will get sufficient publicity for it; deserved or undeserved, that'll be decided when it finally hits the screens I guess.
Meanwhile, you can have a say of your own. Is it really time for a change? I think it is! But not the change Obama talks about or neither the change which will come if 100 more 18 year olds go and vote. Its a change to decide the limits of creative freedom. If kissing scenes, smoking or showing animals in movies (even scenes where animals are not being harmed but are JUST being shown) are to be kept under the wraps, then the UN better start preparing for a software which converts Hindi to English. Have a look at it yourself, http://www.janaganarann.com/.
