Jo desh ke kaam na aaye, woh bekaar jawani hai.
It's a thoughtful film about the 'masti', about today's youth and their thoughts for patriotism. This film in fact tell you cannot preach anyone to be a patriotic, it comes from inside. Also show the gray shades of friendship between politician and businessmen. In the first half you will go back to your college days and then in second half back to reality, which is harsh.
The story begins with the young British filmmaker Sue resigning her job and move to India to make a film on the young revolutionaries who impressed her grandfather, a jailor pre-independence in India. In Delhi aided by Sonia, she runs into DJ, Karan, Sukhi, Aslam. All of them are students in Delhi University. Laxman Pandey is a political party activist which is against the western culture, joins them later. Sue hopes to realize her dream of a making a film on Bhagat Singh, Chandrasekhar Azad, Rajguru or the so called Young Rebel Freedom Fighters of India.
But, contrary to Sue's expectations, the youth have no feelings for their country. India is a washout where corruption is out of control, and nothing can be done to salvage the situation, they believe. They even poke fun at Sue's attempts to make a film, till they come around. As they play the historical characters, their perspective about the present, and their own role in it, changes forever.
Ajay Singh Rathod, a Flight Lieutenant in the Indian Air Force who is Sonia's fiancé, is killed when his fighter crashes. Sonia and her friends investigate and learn that the crash was due to a corrupt defence minister and Karan's father, who had signed a contract exchanging cheap and illegal MiG-21 aircraft spare parts for a personal favour. Angered by the situation, the group and their supporters decide to protest peacefully at India Gate. Police forcefully break up their protest using batons; in the process, Rathod's mother is severely hurt and she slips into a coma. DJ, Karan, Aslam, Sukhi, and Laxman decide that they must imitate the early freedom fighters and resort to violence to achieve justice. As a result, they kill the defence minister to avenge Rathod's death, while Karan murders his father for his corrupt actions. The minister is reported to have been killed by terrorists and is hailed as a martyr by the media. To bring forth their intentions behind the killings, the five of them attempt to reach the public through a radio station. They forcibly take over the All India Radio station premises after having evacuated its employees. Karan goes on air and reveals the truth about the defence minister and his wrongdoings. While still on the air, they are all killed in an ambush by the police and military commandos
The correlation of the British pre independence and the politicians presently in India has been done in the movie. You need to experience it, you need to live it! And then you’ll see that if the villains then were the British, the villains now are in our corrupt System – and it’s a supreme irony that this realisation comes through the efforts of Sue, aBrit!
The story begins with the young British filmmaker Sue resigning her job and move to India to make a film on the young revolutionaries who impressed her grandfather, a jailor pre-independence in India. In Delhi aided by Sonia, she runs into DJ, Karan, Sukhi, Aslam. All of them are students in Delhi University. Laxman Pandey is a political party activist which is against the western culture, joins them later. Sue hopes to realize her dream of a making a film on Bhagat Singh, Chandrasekhar Azad, Rajguru or the so called Young Rebel Freedom Fighters of India.
But, contrary to Sue's expectations, the youth have no feelings for their country. India is a washout where corruption is out of control, and nothing can be done to salvage the situation, they believe. They even poke fun at Sue's attempts to make a film, till they come around. As they play the historical characters, their perspective about the present, and their own role in it, changes forever.
Ajay Singh Rathod, a Flight Lieutenant in the Indian Air Force who is Sonia's fiancé, is killed when his fighter crashes. Sonia and her friends investigate and learn that the crash was due to a corrupt defence minister and Karan's father, who had signed a contract exchanging cheap and illegal MiG-21 aircraft spare parts for a personal favour. Angered by the situation, the group and their supporters decide to protest peacefully at India Gate. Police forcefully break up their protest using batons; in the process, Rathod's mother is severely hurt and she slips into a coma. DJ, Karan, Aslam, Sukhi, and Laxman decide that they must imitate the early freedom fighters and resort to violence to achieve justice. As a result, they kill the defence minister to avenge Rathod's death, while Karan murders his father for his corrupt actions. The minister is reported to have been killed by terrorists and is hailed as a martyr by the media. To bring forth their intentions behind the killings, the five of them attempt to reach the public through a radio station. They forcibly take over the All India Radio station premises after having evacuated its employees. Karan goes on air and reveals the truth about the defence minister and his wrongdoings. While still on the air, they are all killed in an ambush by the police and military commandos
The correlation of the British pre independence and the politicians presently in India has been done in the movie. You need to experience it, you need to live it! And then you’ll see that if the villains then were the British, the villains now are in our corrupt System – and it’s a supreme irony that this realisation comes through the efforts of Sue, aBrit!
After the release of the movie youth activism took to streets to protest on public interest issues. A direct impact was on the 1999 Jessica Lall Murder Case. A month after the film's release, a court acquitted the main accused because of inefficient prosecution and hostile witnesses. This sparked intense civil protests and media campaigns that sought his re-arrest. Taking cue from the scene in which the protagonists hold a silent, candlelight vigil at India Gate, one such group of demonstrators carried out a similar rally to voice their protest. Another such massive youth activism was seen in the Priyadarshini Mattoo rape and murder case where similar rallies were organized.
One of the message from the movie is that we need to change our self first for the system to change. If we decide to change the system then we need to take the responsibility to change them. The youth need to empower themselves to bring about the change in the country. And we have seen this election that more of youth are coming ahead and trying to bring in change.
One thing that we need to fight is the corruption prevailing in our country. If we take a look corruption has absorbed deep into the roots of the country. The process of change is not easy and its slow, still the youth today is working for the change. The generation is awake now. We are the writers of our own future.
I always believed there were two kinds of men in this world, men who go to their deaths screaming, and men who go to their deaths in silence. Then I met a third kind.
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