Rajdeep Singh

This movie is about "anekta"- diversity. People are trying to get too much out this movie. they're talking about absence of a catchy song, confusing dialogue between Aman and the IPS officer, lack of a "message" and what not. But I think people didn't pay attention to the abstract of the movie. It is, again, about diversity and how time and again everyone who is a little different, be it Assamese, Tamil, Marathi, Kashmiri, Tribal, Odiya, Bihari, has to prove their "Indianness" and their nationalism. Johnson movement wasn't about Tiger Sanga or about Wangnao. It was about identity. It was about double standards: - Wangnao pinpoints the reality of an average Indian not able to say the location of a state on a blank map of India. - Tiger and Wangnao and later Aman argue that state suppression of dissent is the reason the common people became militants and terrorists for the state. - North Indian (Aman) and South Indian (IPS officer) debate the unnecessary divisions between North India and South India. The whole conversation in its absurdity is a comment on how absurd the labels are. - You want them to feel Indian but you don't make them feel Indian. The discrimination is shown at various points in the movie This movie is a different concept. Having a catchy song or an "item song" would be an insult to the purpose of the movie. Such movies need to be made and people need to be educated enough to understand the meaning of abstract content for such movies to be a success in India. Critics need to reconsider what genre of the movie is before they critique anything. This is not a movie you should care for a "loose script" or a "no song" about.

Reading some of the negative reviews, I felt compelled to drop one of my own for them: YOU MISSED THE POINT OF THE MOVIE! The movie isn't about a crazy innocent man looking for a suitable girl to marry meanwhile flirting with every other girl he sees. The movie actually portrays everybody but Girdhari in its real sense! It shows the greed and hypocrisy of people from the first scene all until the last. Girdhari is a person who helps people around him not for something in return but only and only of his own accord of serving people. His desire for finding a girl is actually fuelled into him by people around him and he is a man made by society and directed to the right path by his introspecting subconscious mind (in the form of his dead mother) The vulgarity that is so casually pointed out by people here is what surprises me the most because look around you and tell me where do you not witness a vulgar atmosphere of a much higher scale? And regarding the overacting bit, maybe you have a point if you compare it to movies of today's standard, but considering the movie is set in a time much before ours, people were naturally much more expressive and lively than us. So that plays a massive role in the 'over' acting bit. For those who actually read the whole review, watch the movie with a fresh and more open minded lens and try to understand the couplets in the end of the film. They lead one by one from material and physical love to a spiritual one and that is where the movie escalates towards too.

unrequited love for someone, unreasonable lust for money and power, unconditionally following an ideology one sticks by, the overall hypocrisy of the human mind and the actual oppression and tyranny of the authorities ending up the innocents eventually being the victims, this movie has done a wonderful job at portraying the political dilemma of the government and administrative system and the personal dilemma of the human. Marvellous job done by the actors, especially towards the ending which could make one sob watching the injustice being done so casually to so many and the hypocrisy of the "privileged" which ends up hurting the innocents.. Glad I gave this movie the time I wasn't willing to earlier just because it was recommended by the NCERT ;p