I just saw Rang de Basanti. A movie with a great concept indeed, Mig 21's falling out of the sky used to happen too often for comfort. God knows how may pilots lost their lives or were maimed for life because of the faulty parts used in maintaining these outdated aircrafts. The movie goes the distance to sensitise the viewing public to this issue but the solution resorted to by the protagonists makes it unbelievable.
Who goes around killing corrupt officials as a solution? And drawing a parallel with the freedom movement, that's stretching things too far. Bhagat Singh did not become a revolutionary for personal vendetta. The whole freedom movement was based on a different ideology. Today if you go around killing all the corrupt people in the country, then the population of India would be halved!! "An eye for an eye will leave the world blind" as Gandhi said. It is not the solution, it will only lead to more problems.
The movie does address the right issues, but does not offer any conclusive solutions. It will probably provoke a lot of thoughts on the issue though. Maybe a generation will be sensitised to the extent that some solutions do actually emerge. After all there is little that a corrupt political generation can do in front of an empowered public. Aakhir janata ki hathon mein hi hai sarkar ki takdeer, atleast during the elections.
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Agreed. However, there was one solution that the one of the protagonists makes while addressing people on the radio. He says something to the effect of joining politics, joining the public sector and looking forward to changing the destiny of the nation. Cases like that of Manjunath are bound to happen, but till such time we have more Manjunath's than the number of corrupt people who put others to death for their own good, it will not be possible to see any change.
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