swades vs. RDB
i think rdb as a movie is highly overrated...and swades highly underrated...
swades is much more impactful and realistic than rd...wotsay?
lets look at this way
Swades had:
-Brilliant performance by SRK (although i hate the a**hole but he rocked here).
-Strong realistic performances by Kishori Ballal (Kaveri amma), Gayatri Joshi, Daya Shankar Pandey (Mela ram), Rajesh Vivek (Postman)and others.
- Gayatri Joshi, man is she gorgeous or what!!!
- Fantastic Music by Rehman including the background score
- Technically superb: Art direction, cinematography, costumes, editing, sound.
- Crisp story, strong screenplay and exceptional dialogue
- Brilliant direction
- wry witty humor and over all very subtle film with some very fine nuances and symbolism
- A Heart, A Soul
RDB had:
- strong ensemble performance (esp Aamir, Sharman Joshi, Atul Kulkarni and Alice Patten)
- Decently Good Music
- Technically Superb: again art, cinematography, costumes, editing sound just perfect
- Good story/ screenplay but definitely flawed and not original (Hint: watch the French language movie Jesus de Montreal)
- Very good direction but some scenes were over the top
- extremely in your face, broad humor, drama bordering onto melodrama but not quite.......kudos for that restraint
- A strong social message, a bit manipulative though
both are exceptionally brilliant movies........but in terms of art and the magic of movies......Swades is light years ahead.........coz it puts forth a postive message without using gimmicks and sensationalism.........tell me how many movies create the sort of pathos and emotions without a great tragedy happening to the main character (killing a dear person or lover or terrorist attack or rape or suicide ...etc.etc..).......Swades does
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During the watching of RDB, it felt like it was an awesome movie. A few hours after its ending, I realised that it was quite ordinary but for one point.
The only achievement of RDB was in giving a strong message that; WITH THE HELP OF TODAY'S MEDIA it is possible for people to get united towards a common cause with sizeable impact. May be this film impacted such a real incident in India.
Other than this RDB did not have anything that a normal bollywood movie did not have.
As for the ending is concerned the Bright and Intelligent Young People in the movie must have realised that killing a person in the Revolutionary Style is not a final solution.
A R Rahman has composed (and can compose) much better music than he has done for RDB (Take 'Swades' for Example )
'Swades' is of a totally different class.
It has a very sound and mature story. Technically the film achieves near perfection. Be it music, art, camera-work or direction.
There is hardly any scene or dialogue in the movie that is insignificant.
May be the only flaw in the movie is that the Village Charanpur and the villagers are too perfect a setting for change. Are there many villages like these? I am not sure.
Swades does not give a ending, but tells us how to go about in solving a problem, how to break the orthodoxy and how to take work in your own hands.
It says that a single person's strong initiative is good enough to start any big change in the society. And it does not need the help of Media to start it.
Love is protrayed excellently and uniquely in Swades. There is hardly any romantic talk between SRK and Gayatri, but whenever they both are on the screen, they are always communicating, may be not through words.
Swades talks to you very softly and yet leaves a big impact.
Still as we have seen so frequently the best movies are not always highly rated in bollywood. But that doesn't matter, unless a movie does the job for which it was made for.
I feel Swades has done the job excellently well.
Well put. If I had to find one flaw in Swades, I would say that the dam building was a bit long but perhaps was needed to show the principle of self help. And the Ramlila could be cut. Other than that this is pretty much as good as cinema gets...
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