Rang De Basanti - A generation awakens

Rang De Basanti - A generation awakens

Has this movie made a difference in you? If not , Is it because of the fact that you have not seen this movie ? If so i would suggest you all to see this one. Its a good bet. Its specifically address our generation. Well why do i say this? Of course it is because i have seen this movie this Saturday with one of my friends at Six Degrees at Satyam Complex.

There were couple of controversies as the movie revolves around the Ministry of Defence and IAF. But at last producers were able to come out with the release of this movie on the scheduled date. I don't see a reason whenever a movies comes from Aamir khan, most of the time controversies start. Is it because of the reason that he takes up an issue in the society and sometimes patriotism as well?

Well if you go with your mind set according to the redefinition laid down by Dil Chahtha Hai for the youth, then will not be able to enjoy this movie. Then whats all Rang De Basanti about to? It has taken its level by one step ahead. This comes out with the message at the end unlike Dil Chahtha Hai.

A London based film maker having read the memoirs of her grand father who had served in the British Troops before Independance to India plans to take it up as a movie. Having inspired by the thoughts penned down by her grand father regarding those fierce freedom fighters, she starts collecting details regarding the same. When she comes to know of the fact that her film had been turned down as the result of budget cuts, she decides to make the movie out of her own efforts at India. Story starts moving around how she identifies the right actors for her movie.Movie starts becoming serious when they loose one of their friend at MIG Crash and that brings in the real crux of the movie.( I don't want to expose the story off here as this might bring down the interest while seeing this movie)

Director has proved himself by bringing in a clear analogy between the Indians ruled by the British and Indians ruled by corrupt politicians today though the plot adopted by director to kill the minister was really cinematic.

A.R.Rahman Scores well. Songs have come out well. All the actors in this movie have put in their efforts to make it 100%.. Its difficult to point out a single non performer.

I have seen two types of directors,

1) One who takes up concept of youth and makes money out of it
2) Other who makes it a masaala movie and make it a super duper hit

But this director Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra is a third variety who takes both the youth and patriotism and brings out the message out of it.

Does this remind you of a dialogue that comes in the movie ? :)

Well done to the entire team of Rang De Basanti..

Beware: Quite a few Hindi rather Punjabi slangs have been used in the movie. Provided you can understand Hindi to a certain extent, you can make out.. But got to live with it. Otherwise it would have been difficult to bring out the character of Sikh Daljeet Singh from Punjab(Aamir Khan).

Kollywood Industry never comes with stories on great leaders from North. Mostly they stick to south and Bollywood stick to North. If this continues i don't understand how will the stories of all great leaders from entire India reach the new generation. I feel cinema is apt way of making things reach them very soon.Atleast people should start thinking of bringing out the stories of almost all the leaders by taking a approach similar to the director of this movie wherein he brings out the real message out of the story by striking the resemblance with the Freedom Struggle and mixing youth formula in it.

Well if every one start asking what am i going to get out of serving the Nation , probably we may land up in a situation where in we will have to defend ourselves from our enemies. Hats off to people serving at Border!!! We are into a deep sleep as a result of their sleepless nights which we should not forget. Well atleast let the people realise this and let them not involve themselves in buying cheap MIG's and their poor maintenance.

Tirupathi Ezhumalai Venkatesha

"Tirupathi Ezhumalai Venkatesha, enga aasaikellam pacha kodi kaattulesa..
Malai yeri vaarom ohohoho..."

February 1st 2006
It was first week of February. Most of the people in our project were busy with their works. This time we had an important process change to go as a part of requirement going into production for April Release. As it involved process change, some people were busy with their last minute impact analysis, some people were doing the unit testing for their code, some were fixing their code and some were busy with CM Synergy. For people who donot know what CM Synergy is, it is similar to CVS,PVCS,VSS, a version controlling software repository. I feel this is the most tiresome job that people hate to do in almost every organization. But people do understand that even though its tiresome to do, its worth doing it. I was checking in my fixes to CM Synergy when i got a call from my colleagues asking for if i am interested in a trip to Tirupathi the following week end. That sounded interesting to me and hence immediately agreed. I guess it was Wednesday. So almost 7 of my other colleagues agreed to it. So we decided to book a Toyota Qualis to Tirupathi. It was Ananth, who arranged for a Toyota qualis. Ananth and Vikram were instrumental in making this trip.

February 3rd 2006
Everything was set ready. We were informed by our friends that going on saturday and sunday is not advisable as its very difficult to get dharshan. But when we thought of booking tickets online or going to Tirumala Devasthanam at T.Nagar, it was very late. So we decided to take risk. It was communicated to every one who were part of this trip to come up with their baggages ready to office on Friday as we had asked driver to come to our office around 7.00 in the evening so that we can reach tirupathi around 11.30 provided we are not held up in the traffic. Except for the few, every one came up with their bags ready. As i was saying the work was slightly hectic that week, we could not make up to the time. But we started around 7.30 in the evening. Halted near guindy station to pick up few who agreed to take up the qualis there around 8.00. So when we were speaking to driver, we came to know that its difficult to get darshan. He said if we are ready to give extra amount towards the ticket, he would arrange for a darshan in the morning. We were not able to come up with any decision. We asked driver regarding the cottages at Tirumala. He informed us provided we reach the tirupathi before 12 in the night, only then cars will be permitted to go up. So we planned to take up a hotel at Tirupathi. We called up a hotel and enquired regarding rooms.

We were making fun out of others and we were constantly giving exercise to mouth(non stop talk) and it almost never stopped except for the last one hour of journey where people were almost dozing owing to the tiredness. We all had our dinner around 11.00 at Tiruttani on our way to tirupathi. It was 12.30 in the night when we reached tirupathi. We all bought Sudarshan Tickets by registering our finger prints at the counters which is the oldest of bimometrics techniques. Ticket was 3' 0 clock darshan in the evening. So we all headed towards hotel to take our night sleep there. It was around 1.30 in the night when every one went to their beds.



February 4th 2006
Everyone started getting up right from 7 in the morning and after every one having their morning showers checked out from the hotels and moved to a hotel to have our morning break fast. Every one had their break fast as per their choice. Poori, Masal Dosa, Curd Vada,Pongal Vada, Idli were worth mentioning. After having tea/coffee we started to move towards tirumala. Driver dropped us at the place from where people start walking...Wondering why did we got down there instead of going to Tirumala directly with cab? We decided to walk.. This was my debut. First when vikram initially told me that we are going to walk i turned out the offer, but later felt why not i make a try.So decided at last to walk.


So we all started to walk around 9.20 in the morning. First few kilometers, we could travel easily. Took some snaps on our way to Tirumala.

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So slowly steps started becoming steep. I felt as if there was a daunting task ahead of me. Initially i felt i lack moral and physical strength to climb up the stairs to Tirumala. Here Vikram,Poomari and Mahesh deserves a special mention. They were the one to encourage me constantly and provide me confidence to climb up the stairs. It was their words that provided me Moral strength and Physical strength was given by the water,glucose and soda that i consumed. It was almost we covered 1250 steps, when i was informed that there are only 2050 steps. I was bit relaxed on hearing that. But only after reaching 2050 steps, i realized it was the first stage. Then we had to walk around 2-3 kms in road , then we joined back the steps again. The appearance of steps just brought down my moral confidence again back to zero and it took some time for Vikram and Poomari to bring back the Moral confidence to Normal Level. I kept on asking my colleagues , by chance is there any possibility to go back to road and take up a bus/cab to Tirumala. But still i cannot remember my eyes. I crossed 3600 Steps. It was 1.50 in the afternoon when we reached Tirumala. So it took around 4.30 hours to cover a journey of around 12 Kms. Had i not been there my colleagues would have completed that in 3 hours time.


It was almost time for darshan. It was decided to skip lunch even though one or two felt bad about it. People who were coming for the first time to Tirupathi were really surprised to see the queues. Almost around 4 in the evening we reached inside the vaikuntam complex. We had to wait for more than three hours inside the Vaikuntam complex. When we were inside the vaikuntam complex, we came to know that it was "Ratha Sapthami". So that was the reason for the delay.But that was not much paining as we had chairs to relax ourselves. It was finally 9.30 in the night when we came out of Garba Griha. Even though we get just less than 2 minutes to have a darshan of Lord Balaji, still its something special. So almost we waited for 7 1/2 hours to get a darshan of Balaji. We were lucky enough to see "Balaji" coming in Chariot.



When we came out, we collected the ladoos and every one was hungry and we all decided to eat our lunch cum dinner. Some were hesitating to have the dinner at Tirumala as we had to travel down by taking Hair pin bends. But later everyone was convinced to have food. We all had our full meals and then boarded the cab back. We could see the police at check post making his collections from the vehicles travelling through the check post.I guess his collection would come to more than 1000 in a day.When we were enquiring driver regarding this, we were being informed that this is quite usual at almost all the check post after 12 in the night.

February 5th 2006
I remember it was around 2.15 in the early morning when i was woken up by my colleague asking for the route to Nanganallur from Le Royal Meridien at Guindy. It was almost 2.30 when i reached home and bid adieu to my friends and went to bed by almost 3.00.I woke around 12 on sunday. Though i was completely tired after the trip to Tirupathi, it was a good experience.

Right throughout the trip, we all enjoyed. We had a good "Sight Seeing even" on our way to Tirumala.