24 people

So we finally saw RDB( Rang De Basanti ………..for all those who didn’t get what I meant ).

As a student learning advertising the habit has always been to analyze and rip part those parts of the film that make no sense at all. To an extent I must here say that towards the second half of the film the script goes a wee bit overboard. But I really could not find a single flaw in the entire film. The director has done a fabulous job. The finesse in the film maker is evident in the fact that he comes from an ADVERTISING background. He has interrelated the story of his characters with that of our historical heroes – Rajguru ,Bhagat Singh and the likes. The transition from the present time to the historic era is just mind blowing. Even though the colour changes to sepia ……………the way it has been shot is incredible.

I am all in favor of using weird angles. But the risk one runs is angles at the cost of hurting the viewers’ eye. The film has this integral quality of engaging the audience from the first frame and taking them through the lives of the characters- all the while maintaining unconventional angles to portray it. Not once do you hear yourself saying
“Hey that angle is so bad”. You notice the weird angles only if you are really trying hard to find one (which I was doing, for most of the time)

Another thing that made the film more exciting was the fact that there were 24 of us in all. Half of us occupied the first row in the center column and the other half filled up the rightmost column. Before the interval I was seated in the right most extreme (man your neck hurts if you are on the rightmost extreme). Post interval Piyush(the bright creative spark) decided to shift to the center column …………we kicked some people out of their seats(hehehe they had gone to get some snacks at the time).

The half who were seated on the other side finally decided to make their way to where we were sitting and actually sat on the ground ………… it was almost like they’re watching a movie at a friends place.
All in all it was a fun day.