Tuesday, August 16, 2005

Movie Review - The Rising

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to allother countries because you were born in it. (George Bernard Shaw)

The very fact that I am posting an amusing perspective on patriotism a day after August 15th, would make you think that I am not a very patriotic person.
I will have you know, though, that in some moments of diffusion I do feel patriotic surges ( in the form of goose bumps usually and sometimes even an overwhelming feeling of love for the idea of our nation ) given the right stimuli.

An engaging movie with a patriotic theme is one such small trigger. On Independance day I was hoping to feel some partiotic poison.

As the clock struck 00.00 am on the 15th of August, I watched in horror some insipid and half baked scene in the movie Mangal Pandey : The Rising.

Ketan Mehta should have called this Mangal Pandey : My Failings

Terrible ! Do not watch.

3 comments:

The Comic Project said...

am totally with you on the mangal pandey movie. horrible. Cant believe its the same guy who made mirch masala.

Thanks for visiting the comic project and you have a nice blog too.i like the subtle humour of the blog. Mangal pandey = Bandal Pandey .. bambaiyya for faaltu or bakwaas or bad

zap said...

Bandal Pandey IS right:) am pretty familiar with bambaiyya...spent a few years there!

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