Rann: A tale of media power punched with politics
Ram Gopal Verma's latest movie 'Rann' is a smart take on 24-hour television media where news is more often created than disseminated. Great actors, a powerful story-line and tight screenplay have made the movie Ramu's much needed success.
A SULKY Ramu is back with a bang. Taking 24x7 television media head-on punched with Bollywood’s patriarch Amitabh Bachchan in the imposing lead, RGV had a perfect 10 launching pad for his desperate comeback. Power is packed to the core in this well-crafted movie. A powerful contemporary story-line, watertight script and screenplay, powerful enactment from the entire cast are what constituted the recipe for ‘Rann’.
Starting off with the inevitable gadget of television – the remote as the symbol of controlling power, the movie is a stark hard-hitting expose of the unethical commercialization of media in today’s cut-throat competition to notch the top spot and stay there.
The movie bears a balanced background score without any unnecessarily loud and violent songs.
The storyline begins to unfold in the aftermath of a bomb-blast. With the hawk’s eye on the TRP chart aimed at generating advertisement revenue and to break news – no matter how, television media pounces on this incident like hungry jackals. But in the thick of this rat race, one media baron, Vijay Harshvardhan Malik (RGV safely takes the most used first name for Amitabh Bachchan) sticks to his principles and ideology.
His strong belief and conviction that media has the noble role to show truth and only the truth antagonizes his own son. Influenced by the corrupt politician in Paresh Rawal who aspires to become the country’s Prime Minister through guile, and his industrialist brother-in-law, the son cooks up a story at gunpoint. Framing the existing Prime Minister in the bomb blast, these three aim to fulfill their diabolic dreams.
In the murky game of politics where big boys twist and manipulate media for acquiring power in all forms, a young journalist takes up the mantle to unravel the truth in front of the world and also Harshvardhan who is also swayed into the make-belief world of television morphing.
Ram Gopal has meticulously crafted his characters with accurate precision, breathed life into them by carefully chosen actors and made them emote within the framework of the characters – never letting them deviate for a single instance. If Amitabh Bachchan was in his inimitable best till the signature monologue at the end, Paresh Rawal delivered a menacing performance as the corrupt politician.
The supporting cast consisting Rajat Kapoor, newcomer Sudeep, Monish Behl and the female artistes including Suchitra Krishnamurthy, the talented Neetu Chandra and versatile Gul Panag corroborated well in the entire plot. But the surprise package was Ritesh Deskhmukh as the young, dynamic and principled journalist who in his own terms grew up watching Vijay Harshvardhan Malik. In a new get-up and powerful enactment, Ritesh never lets down his fans.
The movie bears a balanced background score without any unnecessarily loud and violent songs.
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