Probashi- Cover Story
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Mukherjee the then Defence Minister and the three service Chiefs. The Defence Minister saw the film and remarked that he was seeing a film after a long time, the last being Ray’ s Jalsaghar( 1958) and remarked his job was to protect the country and not censor films, and asked the three service chiefs to take a call. His parting remark to the Director was“ nice film, young boy”. The Army and the Navy chiefs looked at the
Air Chief Marshall and remarked“ yeh toh plane ki baatein
“ Apun ke pass Bapu hai Mamu!!” Munna Bhai and Mahatma Gandhi in the film Lage kar raha hai yaar, tu hi sambhaal ' Raho Munnabhai, Munna’ s style and Bapu’ s wisdom, an unbeatable combination
( he is talking about airplanes, you manage). The Air Chief Marshall closing credits. However the like Richard Attenborough and made a very telling statement; he release of the film still got delayed Shyam
Benegal, LRMB captured remarked that while RDB was well by a week this time due to
Animal popular imagination by showing made film could the reference to
Welfare Board raising objections to Mahatma at work in today’ s time.
MIG 21s be dropped from the film. the manner in which animals have After LRMB release the demand for
And the Air Chief had a solid been depicted in the film. Rang De Gandhi’ s autobiography, My argument for the request – as an Air
Basanti received the National Film Experiments with Truth went up. The Chief Marshall, what would he say
Award for Best Popular Film
. It was film received four national Awards – to the mothers of the young pilots India’ s official entry for the 79th Best
Popular film, best lyrics who tomorrow morning would fly Academy Awards. It was a big box( Swanand
Kirkire), best from airfields across the country in office success. screenplay( Rajkumar Hirani, Vidhu MIG 21s on training and Vinod Chopra and Abhijat Joshi), and reconnaissance sorties. Rakyesh Laage Raho
Munna Bhai countered that why do not we( 2006): The story revolves around best supporting actor( Dilip change the MIGs to which the Air the interaction between Munna
Prabhavalkar, who portrayed
Marshall looked up and said he also Bhai( Sanjay Dutt) and the image of
Mahatma Gandhi in the film). The wanted to do so, but it would cost
Mahatma Gandhi( portrayed by LRMB was the first Hindi film to be the country 16 million dollars if the Dilip Prabhavalkar) who advises screened at the United Nations change is to be done overnight, but Munnabhai on the principles of
Headquarter in
New York and the Indian Air force was in the Gandhian philosophy, which received thunderous applause. PM process of phasing out the Mig21s. Munnabhai puts to practice in
Dr Manmohan Singh saw the film at
And it was no longer a discussion today’ s world. The movie brought a private screening and patted the between me v / s you, it became back Mahatmaa Gandhi in reckoning film for capturing essential teachings now“ Us”, the film director and the with the youth of today by arguing of the Mahatmaa well. The film was
Air Chief Marshall weree on the for its relevance in contemporary screened at Universities across the same page. And of course the world. The movie provides Gandhi’ s world including at Harvard and MIT. wives of the defence chiefs who philosophy packaged as Gandhigiri
3 Idiots( 2009
): Steven Spielberg were also present at the screening – a practical way of practicing has seen it 3 times, the film has responded in a chorus that this was Mahatma’ s philosophy of non‐ blockbusters ever in Hindi cinema crazy to make any changes, this lines of the movie ‐ Bande mein tha and a number of Chinese probably clinched the verdict dum, Bande Mataram became a Universities have prescribed the film conclusively for RDB. The defence means of today’ s youth to pay in their course work. A film which is
ministry handled the issue in a tribute to Mahatma Gandhi. While a take Indian higher education mature manner and the film was there have been excellent films on system and bereft of the usual cleared with a rejoinder in the Gandhi by accomplished directors masala of bollywood films should
been slotted amongst the biggest such a great movie and it would be violence and truth. The signature