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Film "Raanjhana" entertains creepily but good collection at Box Office.
My POV :: FILM RAANJHANA
By Satya Prakash Gupta
Brief comment:
Raanjhana is really a confused love story that has worked awesomely on Box Office. Raanjhana gives lesson to big producers to have a good script. Stars can not pull your film if film is made without good story. Raanjhana does not have fan-following stars globally but it has entertained its audiences in India as well as overseas nations, collecting whopping money from its initial investment in production and marketing.
However,Raanjhana has invited bad critic notes from viewers,intellectuals and few film critiques.The film's few portion has been shot in New Delhi at Jawaharlal Nehru University known popularly as JNU : A politically, intellectually, ideally and democratically Campus.
Raanjhana reveals its vibrant ethos of idealism of changing the corny, pathetic and unfair world into a vibrant, secular, even and scientific socialist world by catching a thief who is none other than an ordinary young lover who enters into campus and is caught as thief and students do not hand over him to Police. They reason that thief as a product of the capitalism and convention over this issue keeps continuing for a couple of days and he states this Benaras boy that he is thief because he is poor.
This Benaras South Indian priest son is brought up in Benaras in religious ambience of temple and nearer to the bank of Ganges .He is Dhanus, popular star of South Indian films but are unknown to REST OF INDIA but he magically performs as a crazy lover for Zoya ,a Benaras girl belongs to a professor's daughter known as Guruji in local area. Love surfaces between both Zoya and Kundan Shankar ( Dhanush) in their teen age while they read in school. But a known intervention has to enter into screenplay and that is the world's most invisible powerful wall and that is religion. Religion snatches the string of love between them and Zoya is sent to Aligarh.
Zoya takes admission in JNU ,New Delhi. She gets liberated from the fossilized rituals of her society and interacts with new idea of freedom, secularism, socialism. Zoya is amazed to be introduced with many progressive and political student activists and their agitations against evilness, unevenness of Government.
But flaw flows at this point of the story of film that leader of student (Abhay Deol) and Police both are into rat race. This portion should have been researched well. That does not happen in Campus like JNU.
Zoya finds Kundan one day in JNU and he renders tea service to the activists. Zoya does not like his presence in the party. A piquant transformation of Kundan makes him a prominent leader of the party that is the bone of contention. A fishy conspiracy hatched by Zoya against Kundan is plotted with Delhi's Chief Minister. Kundan dies. Zoya exposes Chief Minister in presence of media and confesses her hand to bloody chaos in meeting.
It seems that Zoya is calculative about her life and she goes for Abhay Deol for her highly charged ambition but she does not accept Kundan because of his small-town-grown-up boy. Does Zoya repent of her bad act by sitting the side of dead Kundan ? Paradoxical collision...!!!!
Raanjhana's story and screen play keep creeping in the film that produces a bit of boredom at few junctures.
Sonam Kapoor has done better performance compared to her all films. Dhanus is superb in his debut acting in Bollywood Film. His character builds up . Dhanus's character is great example of Marxism quotation "Quantity leads Quality." Abhay Deol is fine in his cameo.
The panoramic view of JNU Campus is missing. Benaras is well portrayed in film with its cultural ethos.
Music of AR Rahman is superb and it progresses the film and tries to hide the directorial deviation of Anand L Rai whose journey is spiral in film that lacks clarity.
Despite flaws, film entertains audiences first half and second half creates a bit of platitude that progresses the film to fade-out in a state of confusion.
Anyway, this is not review but my point of view is surfacing about the film after two weeks of Raanjhana's release. Producer Kriska Lulla must be delightful about whopping collection at the Box Office.
