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Rang Rasiya Review
- 11/13/2014 11:59:27 AM
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Cast: Randeep Hooda, Nandana Sen, Paresh RawalDirection: Ketan MehtaGenre: DramaDuration: 2 hours 5 minutes
Story: Raja Ravi Varma pioneered modern Indian art, giving faces - and sensuality - to the divine. Facing obscenity charges, what was his defence?
Review: So, Rang Rasiya is a colourful triumph, director Ketan Mehta meriting applause for his portrait of painter Raja Ravi Varma, skillfully blending a biopic, a period film, a love story and a social critique, within a tight frame. Arching across the 19th-20th centuries, Rang Rasiya traces Raja Ravi Varma's growth from a callow youth to a citizen of profound impact. Young Raja (Randeep) has several sensual encounters, by waterfalls, atop giggling swings, wrenching jewels off lovers' bare skin with satisfactory elan, painting portraits for pleased royals - until he meets the ethereal Sugandha (Nandana) in Bombay.
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Sugandha first dismisses Varma's art as 'ladkiyon ko ghoorna' but eventually agrees to be his muse - and lover. As Varma's growing passion - for Sugandha and for a nation he re-discovers through ancient fables and new consumer energy - deepens his work, self-appointed custodians of culture drag him to court, blaming his art for plague devastating Bombay. What is Varma's defence?
Rang Rasiya questions and answers with beauty. Its cinematography lovingly glides across Raja Ravi Varma's now-iconic art - fabrics that shimmer with glossy light, jewels gleaming on paper,
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