Ra.One : disappointingly good

DISAPPOINTINGLY GOOD. The title must have got you confused but that's the feeling with which i came out of theater . Disappointing because i expected a real superhero movie and good because considering  the kind of movies indian cinema is making these days (normal human beings doing action stuff that may scare the hulk) Ra.One is better.

Now, having watched hollywood movies specially the superhero movies, i can say there are two approaches while making a superhero movie. Either you take the Spider-man (2002) road or you take the path of The Dark-Knight (2008). while Spider-man was all about a fast paced story with great special effects, Batman was a masterpiece which dealt with character (emotionally & psychologically) of a superhero.
Also there are a few key points that a superhero movie must have

• good story line
• secret of super power 
• a great villain 
• mind blowing vfx

lets see how Ra.one has performed on all the levels,

story : the weakest point for Ra.One were the loop holes in the story. The basic story has a lot of potential : a twisted father-son relationship, father builds a game to impress his son, the game's main program has artificial intelligence, it goes rouge chasing the son. But the way they dealt with details made the story lousy and unconvincing.

Powers : every superhero has some sort of logic behind possessing superpowers (atleast in hollywood) and his powers are well defined. Like superman can fly and has immense strength but he is not as fast as the flash, this was the problem with krrish (2006). In Ra.one there is no problem with powers possessed by G.One or Ra.One, but the question many people like me will ask is "how did a powerful game program materialized and entered physical world?". The movie lacks explanation.

Villain : there is no batman without joker, beacuse joker presents a twisted evil character which is balanced by the Batman. A villain should be mesmerizing, which srk and Rampal managed to achieve, given the conditions that it is a game program with one motive "to find and defeat Lucifer". But a villain has shades in his character, while Ra.One was plain kind of a one way train, there was never a point that it surprised (remember The joker got caught, but it turns out that he wanted to get caught).

VFX : one area where Ra.one will get 5/5. I remeber watching those military choppers in Lakshya and saying that "VFX n animations in bollywood sucks", while watching Ra.one today i was impressed with vfx.

COMPLAINTS: why do indian movies try so hard? why not keep it natural? this is a general complaint to bollywood (EXCEPT RAJNIKANT  AND SALMAN KHAN, they can do anything). Why putting songs where there is no need? Mr. Srk its evident that u worked on this movie but this movie could have been a roller-coaster ride if you had worked on details and cut the bullshits like CHITTI, hanging g.one upside-down n make a fan. 

In one line movie lacked details and could not grab viewer's attention. If they had hold the movie in one intense direction "Ra.One coming after the boy, and G.one protecting the boy n his mother" it could have been awesome. 

Ratings : considering only Bollywood standards 3.5/5

                considering Hollywood standard 1.5/5

If movies like Dabangg n Bodygaurd can be blockbusters then this movie deserves to be same.

i recommend this movie for kids, they will love it. And for the crowd which has only seen krrish & shaktiman in name of superheroes.  

Aryan Invasion and Indo-Aryan culture : My Views

it depends on the fact that how u look at it, either u looking at it with the prejudice of Indian culture being superior to all (also to state that Britishers were racially motivated) OR with another view that history is not absolute it changes with new findings n time.

Rigveda mentions a lot about a drink called SOM drank by all, n especially by INDRA >> som is not an Indian plant, its found in central asia, and now som is not a part of Hinduism. again because its not found in India. If u try to search hard enough then u can find som in old markets of Peshawar by the name of MAHOO (Peshawar is the region around which Aryans settled first)

secondly Rigveda mentions about horses, which are not native for India..they came from central Asia. Russian Archeologist VICTOR SARIANADI has found remains of a lost civilization in deserts of Turkmenistan (which at that time was a fertile oasis) where there are remains proving a civilization which used to make som (evidences) do rituals with fire (ALMOST EVERY HINDU RITUAL INVOLVES FIRE) n remains of horses n wagons ( RATH =wagons not chariots). then there was a big climate change n river flowing through that area changed its course so they were forced to migrate.This civilization was around 4000 BC, that's the same time around which saraswati river was drying due climate change.

these so called Aryans migrated from central Asia through Turkmenistan n hindukush range ..few went towards Iran others came towards India. they reached by the time sarasvati was almost gone..but here is the point i want to be focused...they were not invading..they were migrating. BY 1000 BC Aryans were well settled in northern India, WITH the people of Indus valley civilization who moved east because of drying of sarswati river. During this period these various Aryan settlements were fighting among themselves A BIG EXAMPLE IS WAR OF MAHABHARATA, (which we Indians believe that took place around 3000 BC). Prof. B. B. Lal  found the hastinapur site of mahabharat n evidences that mahabharat was REAL NOT A MYTHOLOGICAL WAR. But the HOLY GITA or Mahabharata was composed (orally and then in script) during a span of 800 yrs dating 400 BC to 400 AD so there were quite a lot of modifications BUT THE SPIRITUAL TEACHINGS OF GITA ARE ABSOLUTE AND PURE AND OF HIGHEST ORDER THAN ANY OTHER RELIGION (but that's a different discussion altogether).

MY point is Aryans were foreigner by the time they came but then they became as much INDIANS as the MUSLIMS who came as invaders THAT'S THE GREATNESS OF INDIA - LOVE AND SHELTER TO ALL, PEACE AND HARMONY ( of which u find written account in Greek n Chinese ancient scripts: other two contemporary civilizations of that time). Now when the BRITISHERs came to india they regarded VEDAS n VEDIC culture as primitive which was a part of their agenda to make indian hate their own history. EXAMPLE : MAX MULLER initially criticized Vedas (but later he was among the scholars who glorified Vedas). it was a racially influenced propaganda to introduce the theory of ARYAN INVASION n prove that english culture is superior.

ARYAN INVASION theory states that aryans came from central asia, conqured north india and brought with them VEDIC culture. Which is not correct, YES, aryans came from central asia but NOT AS INVADERS but as settlers, they brought their culutre and language which EVOLVED into vedic culture n SANSKRIT after coming to india..basically they had seeds which bacame trees ( not a great metamorph). These ayans were the same people who spread in west n then evolved as a different culture n languages there BUT THEY ALL HAD A COMMON ROOTS THATS WHY THERE ARE SIMILARITIES IN LANGUAGE AND THAT'S THE REASON WHY INDO-ARYAN LANGUAGE IS CALLED MOTHER OF ALL LANGUAGES.