When the good dies, goodness lives on!

So now Diwali is officially over, now that we as a family has watched a movie together. This time around it was another Bollywood sci-fi action thriller 'Ra One'. Oh no, another robot movie after the last Chitty's manifestation in Rajnikanth's 'Enthiran'?
Well, this time around I did not doze off and action sequences were acceptable as they were all computer generated, hence people take at face value knowing the fights were supposed to occur in cyberspace. Whatever it was, the VW car chase scenes were literally out of this world as far as Bollywood is concerned and were comparable to 'The Italian Job' and 'French Connection' except that all these happened in London with The Thames and London Bridge in the background.
All these were too much for some of the patrons who were expecting tear-jerking melodrama and emotional blackmail and they decided to walk out on the show half-way. Guess some were not ready for this transformation in Indian cinema.
Somewhere in the middle of the movie, I thought I had been transported to a cinema hall in India when Rajnikanth made a guest appearance as Chitty and the whole hall went into a cheering and clapping frenzy!
The movie can boasts of a star studded cast from SRK, Kareena Kapoor, Arjun Rampal, Sanjay Dutt, Priyanka Chopra and Rajnikanth.
Gone are the days when special effects in Indian movies were far from being special. Here, the runaway train scene is comparable to Spiderman, Matrix and Superman put together. And the collapse of Mumbai Central Railway Station was incredible. Even singer Akon sings in Hindi here. As SRK is depicted as a clumsy nerdy Tamil computer programmer, he had to speak in Tamil in many instances. One of the songs also has Tamil lyrics in it. The scenes were done tactfully not as to hurt the Tamil community as they were once were when 'Padosan' was released in the 60s.
In summary a good movie to say 'Bye' to Diwali and carry on with life. Soi.