Rann - Eye-opener, with powerful performances.

There's always one thing with RGV's movies, they either fail miserably, or go on becoming huge hits. There are few of his movies, which are just average. Well, Rann can be classified under the latter category. Everything works for him in Rann. The script is powerful, portraying the media business, and the politics involved in it. I really wanna give credit for the casting, everyone fits perfectly in their role. Amitabh Bachchan is brilliant in the movie, especially in that last speech of his, which supposedly was shot at a stretch for 13 minutes, without any retakes. Hats off to him for that, only an actor of his caliber can do that. Sudeep, who plays Amitabh's son, Jai, is equally good. His voice is as powerful as Amitabh, but he still needs to work on his Hindi accent (guess what! He hails from Shimoga, my hometown, proud of that!). The first half of the movie revolves around him. Riteish Deshmukh is just getting better with every film, he's matured here and gives stiff competition to other actors, especially in the second half of the film. Paresh Rawal, playing the role of opposition leader is brilliant, I am seeing him playing a serious role, after long time. Mohnish Behl plays the head of rival news channel, he carries it off with ease. Rajat Kapoor playing industrialist, and son-in-law of Amitabh Bachchan also does his role well. Female actors like Gul Panag, Neetu Chandra, Suchitra Krishnamurthy and Simone Singh, also do a good job, although they don't have much to do in here. Even though its a huge cast, the script holds up all the characters together, and thats what works for this movie. The one thing, which I was disappointed with was the music of the film, there was no need of putting songs in the background. Take for example, the lyrics of this song "mera channel dekhna, aur uski TRP badhana". I mean, why the world, would you make a song like that. But since its an RGV movie, you can't expect much from the music scene, the music is most of the time, disastrous. I'd still recommend the movie. I'd give it a 3.5/5.