Divine fools rock
The sequel, Lage raho Munna bhai is smashing. We managed to get tickets for a matinee show today. This is a wonderful movie. There are very few films that operate on two levels. This one works us up. On humor first, to get you in the gear, and then drives us on morality with subtle shifts, that you actually fail to notice when you’re getting sucked into it.
I happened to read Rajkumar Hirani’s interview on Rediff yesterday, inspite of a sucky dial-up line, and to tell you the truth, this one actually did get me.
If the last film had a message, this one has a far bigger message. If I stop you and say something about Mahatma Gandhi, you’ll brush me off saying ‘boring.’ To preach is very boring, and nobody wants free advice. But if it’s entertainment, then this changes. If you explain something to a kid through an interesting story, he’ll be hooked. So I’m just trying to give people a message which they’ll enjoy.
Performances all around are wonderful, just in the right proportion, with none overdoing it. Arshad Warsi is wonderful and his take is, perhaps, flawless. To his luck, he’s got some great lines that throw people into fits of laughter, in series. Something that I enjoyed during the length of the film.
I’d probably watch Lage raho Munna bhai again and perhaps, buy a DVD for keeps, whenever they release one.