An open letter to the director:
Just came back from your movie Aarakshan, and couldnt stop myself writing you this letter. You made a quite decent movie with fantastic performances from the actors, but the movie could have named "Prabhakar" or
"Shiksha" and wrongly named "Aarakshan" if you ask me. Yes the movie is not entirely based on the issue of reservation but is based on issue of commercialization of education and one man - Dr. Prabhakar Anand (played by Big B)'s fight towards that issue and his suffering due to his principles. The name of the movie and publicity of the movie based on the single issue of reservation depicts the viewers and can disappoint the viewers who wants to watch a master piece on this burning issue from the director of caliber like you.
Anyways, if one ignores the depiction or he/she knows that this movie is not entirely based on that issue would surely enjoy the film as it's quite wellmade and as earlier said with really good performances by Amitabh Bachchan, Manoj Bajpeyi, Deepika Padukone and Saif Ali Khan. Most characters, be it Prabhakar Anand (big b), Deepak Kumar (saif ali khan), Dr. Mithilesh(Manoj Bajpeyi), Sushant (Pratiek Babbar), Purbi (Deepika),
Prabhakar's wife (Tanvi Aazmi), Tabelawala (Yashpal Sharma), Inspector Thakur (Mukesh Tiwari), Corrupt Politician (Saurabh Sharma), Dalit Neta (dont know his name), Pandit (dont know his name too) are well defined and this is the USP of the film.
Negative points can be film's excessive length, and though some characters like Deepak Kumar or Sushant getting less scope, and depiction as earlier mentioned.
Music doesnt let you down, but couldnt generate more curiosity too.
Performance wise every body performs really well, but it's an Amitabh Bachchan film clearly, though Manoj Bajpeyi also impresses equally.
Overall, this film could be a gr8 film (like Gangajal - just watched it again yesterday on a sattelite channel) but it just manages to be a good decent film.
3.35 cheers for the film.
regards,
a film fan - the 70 mm idiot Rancho - Hardik Raychanda
P.S. : film has nothing to make it controversial.
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Bad movie dis one is. First half is just a long discussion which leads d movie nowhere..and 2nd half is better but has nothing to do with the first half..
in simple words.. "Iss Aarakshan me do movies basi hain" :|
Main thing is..this movie had to raise the issue in common..first half somehow succeeds in that too[bt as said above..it's just long boring lecture or discussion]..but second half is just about Big B's character's personal issues n all..
n honestly..Big B is a great actor no doubt about that..but dese all movies in recent times by him..his performances are just similar..neways in short, i dint like him in dis one..not Saif..not Deepika n not even Pratik..Saif is gud in some scenes..but not wat was expected from him..even Pratik made me wonder how come he performed amazingly in his last two movies.
Movie: 1.5/5
-the 70 mm idiot - Raju [Nilay]
