this is one movie that left me heart broken... you can call me emotional , sentimental.. or anythin else that you feel, but I was heartbroken... not just coz the hero n the gang died.. but coz the movie reflects so much of truth... puts so much into perspective...
did it really awaken?? some might say YES.... I am truly glad for them, really am. but I am a little different from them. I am one of the millions of Indians out there who dont need a movie to come along to stir up my patriotism... I love my country.
I do believe that it is the blood and sweat, the tears and toil of our freedom fighters and martyrs that ensured us that we could walk today with our head held high...
that we can say see any white man eye-to-eye on our own soil...
that we can decide who passes the laws in our land...
that we can move around without anyone coming along and arresting us..
that we can sit on any seat in a train, without having to get up when a white man walks in...
I do agree that there are faults too... anything touched by humans are inherently defective or corrupt... but I also belive that mistakes are not permanent... we can change... we can change for the better. there are ppl like us.. we try not to spit on the streets or piss on the roadside... we pay our taxes... we are from deep inside respectful to our countrymen, their feelings and sentiments... we do believe that the girl child deserves to live and study.... barring our human inadequecies, which makes us imperfect, we truly make an effort..
and that is the reason that I was heart-broken... the film made me look around and realize that nothin has changed... patriotrism is a fool’s plaything in todays world... our soldiers who brave the winds and the wilderness are regarded as the duffers who dint have any other career option... if one of them dies, they say its coz he cant shoot straight... if a pilot crashes his plane its coz he cant fly properly.... if one of them is captured by the enemy, he is not a POW.. he is a deserter...
and we who believed, will never live to see the day our dream fullfilled... India respected all across the global framework... not one country havin the balls to put us down... the reason for it being that as one half tries to push forward, the other tries to pull back...
that fact is immortalised in the scene where after they are lathi-charged by police for protesting, Karan asks DJ:’’Par Humne kya kiya? ’’.. and DJ can say nothin. he returns to the apartment and cries in Sue’s arms... that is a cry of our entire generation... of those who believed... of those who tried... and dint reach anywhere. coz for each one of us who tried to push forward, there were dozens gladly pushing backward.
if anyone who sees RANG DE BASANTHI can see beyond the canvas and recognize where they were... did they push forward or pull back... and decide to change for the better... change not just for a few days but change by truly understanding what those who believe are trying to achieve... then I would say, THAT IS THE REAL AWAKENING...