Dombivali Fast & Rang de Basanti

Lot of stuff has been talked about the two.
Both the films-Dombivali Fast & rang de..,you see, seem to be too cognate in their in their content & expression.For a very insightful & sensible article see Saaptaahik SakaL issue of the last week.Ganesh Matkaree makes lot of valid points regarding this.
And very typical critics say that the films are "too cinematic".Or some talk that
either of them is more cinematic whereas the other is not that.Well, opinions vary
for which is what?Let me not enter now in that debate but I will make a point that why do people(actually blockhead critics) think that one is so.
Folks lets make it clear that films need not portray what is desirable or potentially pertinent to take place...films,stories,dramas can also figure out the
extremities that can be reached.And to show extermity doesnt mean that thats it...& thats my stand(my is maker's author's etc)
In Rang de...remember they get a call from a very affluent class based College
Principal who says their act to be a kamzor kadam.What this means is that the Director is well aware of what he is showing but he is trying to figure out the
extremity what they reach.It may seem un-real or for some of you over-cinematic but
we need to take that exteremity to think of the issue more seriously.Well I would say that he has devised extremity to make us feel the issue to its depth of seriuosness which it should attract.
Critics often lead astray [especially those who write in News papers like SakaL(see saptarang 26th feb'06)]without perceiving this extremity as a device but that itself as a target.
May it be Dombivali fast or Rang de.. what one more common feature they share & so far untalked is that both are Meta-films.Well I would say that rang de...is full fledged meta-film.
Meta film:By this vocable I piont out the notion of "above" & not "about"
these films figure out issues from bird's view.The messege is therefore not embeded in the theme but messege is all-pervasive throughout the theme.
Well I stop here & will come up with next Post contd.