Rann [Hindi] Movie Review – II
(1/5) Bad News!
Ram Gopal Varma’s Rann does two things.
First, it fails to effectively and aesthetically critique the television media, which is the film’s raison de etre.
Second, Rann is a very effective critique of how a subject — ethical bankruptcy of television news, popular debated across nearly every drawing room in this country, is laid to waste by RGV.
Amitabh Bachchan plays Vijay Harshwardhan Malik a grey haired veteran journalist and owner of a television channel, who is also the last bastion of ethics in television journalism.
South Indian actor Sudeep plays his son Jai, who’s hyper, unnecessarily taut and flustered, something even his forever skimpily clad, fiancé Neetu Chandra (Yasmine) can’t seem to cure.
Malik’s ‘virtue-ridden’ news channel India 24X7 is tottering in the TRP blitz, especially in face of its main rival channel run by slick operator Mohnish Behl, who’s laughing way to success and to the bank with mercenary journalism practices.
At this point, Reitesh Deshmukh (Purab), a starry eyed journalist joins India 24X7. Purab plays the eventual catalyst to a embarrassingly idiotic plan set in motion by opposition leader Pande to seize the prime minister’s chair with the help of Jai and his brother in law (Shankalya) Rajat Kapoor, who’s a super rich industrialist.
The film, which is very, very short on research and reality, is a poorly presented visual document on India’s mushrooming television scenario.
That the media in general and the television media in particular has evolved as a corrupt, power mongering institution is without doubt, but RGV very untidily skims the shallow levels of turbidity in the television news industry like shady sting operations, misleading recreations, over the top anchors, etc.
Where RGV had a tremendous opportunity to deliver a punch that would at least bring television news addicts to their senses, the director only makes a fool of himself by the end of the film.
Unfortunately, Ram Gopal Varma’s Rann is as dumbed down and ridiculous as the news channels it tries to critique.
As far as the cast is concerned, Amitabh is shamefully underutilized. And somehow Amitabh simply cannot play a television news anchor. Paresh Rawal is good, but somehow RGV has written such stereotype characters, that even Rawal’s cruel edge has a dull edge to it. Rajat Kapoor does not even deserve a mention.
The women in the film are showcase one tracked exhibits. Gul Panag (Purab’s girlfriend), shrieky and over the top; Neetu sexy, curvaceous, lingerie wearing, but worried fiancé and Neena Kulkarni, who plays the surprisingly communally hearted wife of a secular and broadminded Mailk.
Finally, Rann offers you no take aways. It tries to feebly reinforce what most in the country have begun to suspect; that the television news industry largely is powerful, opaque, agenda driven and can stoop to any levels.
But then we don’t need a movie as bad as this, to tell us that.
-Movie Review By Bhushan in Goa.
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Bad news is that Rann is a disaster at box office.. check this link:
http://movies.rediff.com/report/2010/feb/02/ishqiya-beats-rann-at-box-office.htm
Bad news is the film is based on the media like the ones who has written this review..
background score is pathetic and confused.. The rediff reviewer Sukanya Varma has analysed it better, “the background score is so dauntingly exaggerated and blaring, it’s hard to tell shocked from spooked”
The movie deserves a 3 * and not 1 like the reviewer mentioned. There are so many other crappy movies compared to this. Big B, Paresh Rawal, Mohnish Behl & Ritesh Deshmukh have done a wonderful job. Comparing them to Sudeep, he has a long way to go. The villain of the movie for me was the Camera, it just killed me. The chosen angles do not justify the mood of the movie. B/G score was excellent. Could have done away without the songs and more story editing.
This review is utter nonsense. It deserves
2.5 we have seen more crap than this
movie. Rgv could have done better. It will
be an average grosser.
Girish, u r missing the point here.. Just bcos its not a love story, it doesn’t automatically qualify for an applause! Moreover if u see Rann, it seems that the maker of Satya and Company was not making any experimentation but was looking for some quick bucks.
Just watch Satya & Company once again before concluding that whoever is criticizing Ramu for his Rann is doing it out of grudge. Not only you’ll realize how silly Rann looks in front of those masterpieces, you’d realize what the true RGV could have done of this movie.
film is not so bad………………average…..i recommend to c …….because our SUDEEP is there,,,,,
pls don’t write this type of reviews!! i don’t think movie is as bad as it is projected here!! though RGV is on low now, don’t forget he has given cult movies like company, satya, rangeela etc. he has the caliber of making a masterpiece too as well as movies like RGV ki AAG.. but what he does is lots of experiment, breaking out of usual routine formula!! he wants to take risk by trying out different things!! he’s not stereotyped like karan johar or aditya chopra who can make only crap love stories!! and this review is not genuine and its written just for sake of criticizing ramu!!
Bakwas movie.. But one extra star could have been awarded to Neetu Chandra’s curves even though they dont have any relavance to the movie
Ramu is a changed man post RGV ki Aag and he’s low on confidence also regd his direction skills. He’s become more arrogant and boasts a lot before the movie release after the Aag disaster. Effects of lack of confidence. Moreover barring Rangeela, he’s very poor in directing non-horror and non-gangster movies.
VERY BAD REVIEW………..!!!!!
Dont write review if u haven’t seen the movie……or could not understand the movie…
But if u have seen the movie and understood the movie and still u r writing this nonsense then RANN must be targetting u (ie.. u must be a corrupt journalist )