Munna Bhai aa ree laa reee !!!!!

No work on Saturday and Sunday has made me glu sticked to my comp and publish all these "just wanted to" posts, and here I am with my review on Lage Rahoo….."I'm back" says our Munna bhai in his own desi ishtyle & guess what ?? Circuit too is here again to take us on a "journey of a lifetime" (fitting, despite of being such a cliché). Last week, I watched Lagey Raho Munnabhai (LRM) & I admit I was late by 4 days in watching it :P , reason?? no tickets on weekends soooo typical of Bangalore (in Munnabhai lingo ,"Booleethoo… apun koo time ich nahee milaa, aur uper se ticket ka much much).Lucky as I always am (no pun intended),JV got tickets for the 10 PM show, at innovative, was tough to return in chilling cold on bike, but, anything for Munna Bhai!!!!!

Let me tell you honestly & loudly, I really loved LRM. I don’t normally give a review to a movie, if you go through; RDB is the only other movie which has got a review on my blog!!! We laughed at Circuit and Munna's evergreen repartee, paid attention to meaningful (beautiful too) words of the old Mahatma, felt morose with the old men's troubles of the old age, felt cheered up with them when Munna came to their rescue and before we knew ..the show was over, It was magic, magic of simplicity, honesty and of a benevolent desire to tell us something we don't want to know. LRM is a good movie, but what makes it a great movie is its attempt to reincarnate Gandhian values. Gandhi is 'KOOL' again. Munna is again the Mr.Fix-it-all, but this time there is no ghoda and gun, no con man ship and no lies, just the good ol' values of love and truth. The scene just before the interval, where Munna apologizes circuit, for beating him takes the icing over all, I and all of my friends in the theater would have definitely opened the gates of their eyes to rush the flood out, if there would not be that little prank on Chinese food by Munna, at the end of the dialogue, Ckt rulz again, My full marks to him in the movie!!!! All the solutions to our problems are very simple and straight in the face, it is our refusal to see them that makes them so complex. In the words of Rishikesh Mukherjee,"It is so simple to be difficult, but it is so difficult to be simple". Baapu just reiterates this simple truth to us in LRM. LRM doesn't preach, it just reopens the age old debate of Violence v/s non-violence. It does not pass any verdict, rather it tells a sweet story of a gold-hearted goon dabbling with Gandhian values. But you learn something along the way, at least feel that Gandhi wasn't as outdated as we like to think. So simple are these values, you commit a mistake, say sorry and MEAN IT. Speak the truth, it is the real shortcut to whatever you want. Be Honest. Isn't that something we already know? But it is the hardships of growing up that made us oblivious to the goodness (or badness) of these values. Take it easy and “saaab chalta hai” is our attitude. I guess we learnt very fast and unlearn these simple things even faster. Gandhi is not outdated. It's us who have chosen the seemingly easier and wrong path. It is our inability to withstand against the corruption that is very in'dated' but it is leading us all to a precarious situation. Even I am feeling a little guilty while writing these lines. Am I any more true to Gandhian values than you?? Well...my mortified conscience won't be able to answer this embarrassing question. Still the answer is out there ...blowing in the wind. But I suspect if anybody else is in better situation than me .We are all the same and that's such a pity.

Does LRM serves any higher purpose than making money for its producer and tickling some of our funny bones?? Maybe yes, maybe no. but if it stimulates you enough to even read or to know more about Gandhi and his ideology....Then I bet it does. Go and njoy your bit now!!!

PS:
On a lighter note, Vidya Balan looks like a million bucks as always. I couldn't help feeling a little lost when she was onscreen. Ah! The same old inexplicable mystique of female beauty :)