Lately the news channels have been a medium of entertainment. The days when news channels were responsible for truth, which affected opinions of people and nation, they are now into sensationalization and packaging of things. They present what people want to see not what people should see.
Media is one of the four strong pillars of democracy on which our nation is existing. Rann is about the responsibility and ethics of media in a democracy. In the lines of Madhur Bhandarkar style movie making, Rann aims to expose the game being played behind those newsrooms. The characters involved in this game, their strategies and the ultimate victims in this game of manipulation.
The movie begins with a good note of the present day news and without wasting too much time, it introduces the main plot quickly. The plot is basically predictable with nothing fresh. The script is half-baked and no punchy dialogues either to shake you out of your seat. The ending monologue speech by Amitabh Bachchan is great to hear but clichéd.
Its the whole lot of actors and their performance that holds every breath of the movie. With Rann, I am more convinced that BigB is the only person in Bollywood who can hold audiences before the camera without uttering a single word. He is silent and helpless in most part of the movie yet his facial expressions speak volumes. Monish Bhel has enacted the performance of his lifetime. Thank God, for saving us from his series of rapist roles. Sudeep is good yet the panic striken, gelled hair, sweaty face and fumbling expressions are not flawless. Paresh Rawal is good as usual. Ritesh Deshmukh is more than good and its by far his best role. Though he hardly gets any chance to speak yet his honest, sober and yet determined expressions are excellent. Suchitra Krishamurty is good and Rajat Kapoor is competent as an industrialist which we like to see him the most. Acting is the sole reason that one should watch Rann. Its the sole reason for recovery of every penny of your ticket.
With typical camera techniques of Ram Gopal Verma like close zoom of the character in focus and various wide angles for a scene, the loud background score like a horror movie, the movie starts to suck at some parts. The script could have been better manifold. The dialogues are toothless and cant deliver the punch required for the movie like Rann yet Rann is much better than the past Ram Gopal Verma flicks like Agyaat and RGV ki Aag.
I will remember Rann as a missed chance which could have been much better. With Rann, the expectations from RGV are increasing. Let’s wait for Rakta Charitra to judge if RGV is a spent force or something more to offer for this Bollywood.
I have seen and heard from every day reviews even biggest of the biggest movie bugs prefer to watch Ishqiya over Rann, including myself. Since it is a major disappointment, there is nothing one can expect from RGV, perhaps only some left over biased population might keep expecting him to comeback but watching his sick freak unnecessary loud and stereotyped characters and zooming camera angles again and again has become way beyond repeating. No hopes from this oath struck person of delivering 50-100 movies per year... I hope Abhimanyu Singh holds the key to RGV's success in his future project same as he did in Anurag Kashyap's Gulaal.
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