Rann (2010)

Why so much hype?

There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

RGV in 90s and early 2000 was a great filmmaker, who introduced new styles of filmmaking and gave us SATYA,COMPANY.etc but post RGV KI AAG his films became horrible and had repetitive background music and weird camera angles. RANN is a decent film, though the excessive background music is there and weird camera angles too make their presence felt. RANN is about media and how news channels battle for TRPS, including political nexus.etc all seen before but well handled I wish however it was more realistic and authentic, RGV hasn't done proper research of media channels. There are some flaws too like Mohinish Behl revealing it all to Ritiesh and some other flaws.Direction is decent Music is okay,thankfully no songs in the film only background musicAmitabh Bachchan is typecast yet plays his part superbly, Ritiesh showed his talent here in serious roles and is superb Sudeep too is efficient, Rajpal Yadav is good, Paresh Rawal makes a comeback with villainous roles with this film and is superb, Rajat Kapur is as usual, Gul Panag is okay, Neetu Chandra is as usual, Suchitra is fab in her role, Mohinish Behl is superb in a negative role rest are good

Ramgopal has some kind of pakad on some subjects and this is one of them.He gave good movies like Satya,Company and Sarkar in the past.From starting point of the movie It seems that it is gonna be awesome movie.At the end of the show You won't feel that your time has been wasted and all.Like the camera angels very much, Awesome screenplay, awesome direction.When actor like Ritesh acts you can say director has done a great job.Amitabh and Sudeep also gave powerful performance.Even the other actors Gul panag,Neetu chandra performed very well. Directors like RGV get disappointed when these type of movies not work on box office. In one word Powerful movie Strongly recommended

RGVs teaming with BigB always had led to highly anticipated movies and with Rann the same goes. So Post 26/11 when RGV got embroiled along with Ritesh, Rann was definite movie to watch out his vengeance. The product works, only at a few places - sad!Media is the crux of the movie, and the problem is a shallow depiction of it. Its evident that the writer did not do his homework properly but concentrated on fabricating a story around the industry. ¤ Big B:: In my opinion, the character is a straight lift from Mahabharata - Dhritarashtra, for the love of his son. The over-the-top idealistic portrayal was not warranted. It wasn't a full BigB outing and also it wasn't like his role was indispensable. The emotional charged lines in the grand finale attempt to cover up for the short-comings.¤ Ritesh:: The publicity machine portrayed his character to be derived from Howard Roark and honestly thats conning. Or maybe the character did not get screen time to crystallise into The Fountainhead. ¤ Sudeep:: A Duryodhana in disguise who know how to manipulate his Paa. His accent needed to be improvised and mimes Raghuvaran to the T. Also touching the face frequently does not qualify for acting. ¤ Paresh Rawal:: Its good to see Paresh joining hands back with RGV after a long gap. His character does have meat in it and I wouldn't be surprised if it was based on a couple of real-life conniving politicians. ¤ Mohnish Behl:: Now he is the one who steals the thunder practically right under everybody's noses. Fantastic performance and truly goes to show what he is capable of if truly tapped his potential. ¤ Rajat Kapoor:: Well, it is the usual "suave" character he portrays practically in every other movie.¤ Rajpal Yadav:: A realistic character and as usual he goes a bit over- the-top the moment camera starts whirring. But hey, he says one memorable line which pretty much sums up the industry "hum humari filmon ko NEWS kehte hain!".Finally coming to the ladies, if I dare say the truth - you were all conned by RGV. Background score is very loud, a la 1980's B-grade masala flick. Songs are pathetic, the composition or the lyrics - cannot decide which is the worst. What happened to the glorious days when RGV teamed up with R D Burman, Rahman, Vishal Bharadwaj, Gulzar etc. Rann goes to show the level "The Factory" is stooping to.

The news is that old RGV is back on track.I was hoping for RGV to hit form at least in RANN after few craps like Contract, Aag and Agyaath. And guess what, He actually hit form in this movie. Trailers were promising and thats what took me to the theater. In the end I was really touched by this masterpiece which really went unnoticed. This was definitely one of the best works of RGV since Sarkar.The movie rightly exposes internal politics of the media and how the news are created instead of reporting the actual news. No wonder why the electronic media reviewers like Rajiv Masand, Anupama bashed the movie saying "Ill researched"!!!! Coming to the performance, Everybody from Rajpal Yadav to BigB has done justice to the character but Sorry BigB its Sudeep who steals the show with his terrific performance. Pros.. Almost everything..Cons Nothing really...Verdict: Get your copy of DVD right now