D-Day: Why are we unable to shed the baggage of our past
Managed to watch D-Day. In these days of Multiplex cinema, to watch a movie with the entire family, and that too over the weekend, you are down by Rs. 2500+ popcorn and cold drinks, so 3500/- Rs. gone and if the movie is a let down, then you not only curse the movie and so also curse yourself of shelling out 3500/- for a trash. With D-Day that is pretty much the case, what could have been a 1 1/2 hour tight crisp and edgy movie, went on to be a 2 1 /2 + hour long ordeal. What could have finished by interval and left audience wanting for more, was needlessly and aimlessly harked on for 1+ hour. That extra one hour was an extension of the past baggage that most directors of today (leave aside a few here and there) carry or rather haunts or should I say puts them in dilemma. The classic case of emotion, drama, farz, karz, marz,...running high and leaving the audience asking for once to stop it and go home. The pre-interval phase was what could have been where Arjun Rampal's chara...