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RdB is impressive, refreshingly different - it could be mainly Rahman's music which was almost path-breaking. But, though it overwhelmed the other aspects of the movie, the movie in it self was rather a unique product.

Acting was of a high quality - Aamir was extra-ordinary, but you come to expect it from him. Since Lagaan, his penchant for perfection has been obvious. But, there were other stand-out performers too - particularly Atul Kulkarni and Sharman Joshi.

Siddharth was the best though. Of course, this has been his trademark character since Boys and Ayutha Ezhuthu, nevertheless his comfort for the role is awesome.

The second half and particularly latter part suffered from the endemic problems in many Indian movies - too much happens, and the care and detail that was shown for the earlier half is suddenly conspicous by its absence later.

Nevertheless, it is a top-notch movie. I would rate it as good as AE was, though they have different core audience. Some sweet moments -

1. The picturisation during the songs was cool, but 'Rang de Basanti' was great.

2. The Radio jockey announcing that they will take a break to play a song, and having 'Roobaro' was Ha Ha funny. But, then there were many such funny moments in the movie (like the one where drunk Aamir talks about 'pissing in the present')

3. What surprised me was how they got the whole bunch of kids to react before the camera with just the right amount of over-reacting and just the right amount of rhetoric. It looked real and that is a great great piece of direction.