- Lage Raho Munnabhai -
First, hearty congratulations to Vidhu Vinod Chopra for bringing out this boldly humorous movie. His mission - to boldly go where very few movie-makers dare to venture - is successful! The whistles and the applause in the theatre at the right junctures confirms it.
There are a few instances where the sequels are better than prequels, but that's in Hollywood. In Bollywood most of the first parts, so to speak, aren't encouraging enough to think about foraying into a second enterprise. But with LRM, the bar has been raised - beyond expectations.
With help from none other than.. Mahatma Gandhi, VVC has crafted this very enjoyable movie experience 'with a message' but without it sounding like one! RDB too gave a message but with a little pomp, glamour and violence; all the 3 of which VVC avoided and achieved a better result nevertheless. Full marks to him on this count. It seems so hard (well, apparently not so hard for everyone) these days for the message-mongering-movies to be non-violent. In that light directors like VVC and Ashutosh Gowarikar certainly stand out.
My idea here is not to write a movie review, but to thank VVC for giving us this gem. Hey, this movie even gives us a new tool to use (even before invoking the Right To Information act) against bribe-takers... Heh heh!
Enough words folks, go see the movie.
Vande Mataram!
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