Being ... ALI HASSAN

Its had been quite something since I last saw a Ram Gopal Verma directed movie, I think the last one which I saw was "Sarkar II" which I found pretty nice so his present offering which was to un-cover the media or so to say was quite intriguing and I wanted to see how would someone like RGV approach the subject.

Its fair to say that this movie was quite an eye opener as to what lengths the media would go to "create" news not just report it. The movie is ofcourse a work of fiction but what lies beneath is the scary truth of what the reality actually is and what goes on behind the scenes and how does the news actually make in inside your TV room, quite an engaging storyline I should say.

RGV has always been known to make different kind of cinema so much so that sometimes its so different that we all hate him for even attempting to do it (remember the re-make of Sholay..LOL) but with this movie he manages to hit the nail on its head and come up with something very engaging and fun to watch. Even though Amitabh B was promoted as being the main hero of this movie I would say that the movie belonged to all the characters who were a part of it and no one stole the limelight because the storyline was such that no one could do that.

Watch this one and the word "NEWS" just might change forever...

Stars: ***1/2

-Alstar