Apr 16, 2006 05:07 PM
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(Updated Apr 16, 2006 05:10 PM)
The film has been a hit is born by the fact that 207 people have written reviews on MS itself. There were protests not only by environmentalists but the government itself before the movie was allowed to be screened. When I say 'hit' I mean that film has started a thought process in many who watched the film.
Last week I had an opportunity to watch this film. Like others it started a thought process in my mind also. One such thought-thread is ''who is the second General Dyer in the Rang De Basanti''. Let me clarify what I want to say.
British government could produce only one General Dyer in its more than two hundred years rule over India. But the government elected by Indians, in its just 50 years of rule over India has produced many General Dyers. Profile of such two General Dyers can be seen in Rang De Basanti.
One General Dyer is Raksha Mantri who orders lathi charge on peaceful people, including women and children, who assembled at India Gate to mourn the death of an Air Force officer in MIG Crash and to protest the behaviour of Raksha Mantri who called the pilot an inexperienced and casual person. Other General Dyer's voice is heard when he orders that he will not like to see any survivors when security forces charged AIR office where some students were present. The face of this General Dyer could not be seen. Who is this General Dyer? I think about him and many faces emerge before my eyes. Any one could have been this General Dyer.
What do you think my dear fellow MS members?
