Sep 5, 2006

munna bhai v/s mahatma

For those of you who don’t follow much of Bollywood news let me give you some trivia. "munna bhai v/s mahatma" was the planned title for sequel of "munna bhai mbbs". But somehow the producer and director were not convinced totally and they opted for more bubbly "lage raho munnabhai".

Munna and Circuit are back with a bang. And this time they have one more friend, Bapu. Yes Bapu, none other than our Bapu. What is Bapu doing in life of a tapori from Mumbai? How can he ever be attached with such a person? Answer is pretty simple. Gandhi is inside each one of us. The extent of his attachment with us depends on the extent we believe in his ideology. Its like the existence of God, if you believe him, he is everywhere. Else he is just a myth. This is the theme of the movie.

I won’t share any story or scene from the movie here, coz I don’t want to spoil anyone’s interest. This movie is a must watch and I recommend that you go and watch it in theatre only.

Only one thing about the movie, it should not be compared to Munna Bhai MBBS. Simple reason being that only common between the two movies is the central characters and the theme. Story has different color in the two versions. Director could have made a movie on this story without Munna and Circuit. But then to bring out the central theme of Gabdhigiri would not have been so easy. So he chose to use the popular Munna and circuit to tell a new story.

Hats off to Vidhu Vinod Chopra and Rajkumar Hirani. Great work guys.

2 comments:

Vatsy said...

The title was not munnabhai v/s mahatma.. It was munnabhai meets mahatma... :)

Pritesh Jain said...

oh.. again mistake. I guess I should do more research before writing anything :-)
Thanks vatsy for correcting.