harafat A great movie by Vishal Bhardwaj again. Seem to be a bit slow in the end but boils down later on. The story is spell bounding. Acting is awesome by all actors. Kudos to Vishal Bhardwaj. Simply awesome ! This movie will entertains you to the hilt and touches you in a manner that isn't as simple to decipher and understand as it seems to be. And why it should be? After all, it's a Vishal Bharadwaj movie.

indev goyal You can find some interesting scenes in movie Rangoon. Shahid and Kangana Ranaut played their role very clearly. One of the good factor is about the movie is the star cast of the movie. Movie has really a big start cast. Nawab sahib - Saif Ali Khan has a big fan following so no doubt movie will income good. And this movie could make interest in its story you cant leave theater without completion of this.

Pranav Agarwal Set in the Second World War era, the movie is a complete disaster from the start. Its yet another love triangle cliché with not even one descent song or dialogue. Had much better hopes from Vishal Bhardwaj. The ending is as bad (if not worse) and vague as the rest of the movie. The only descent part of the movie was Shahid Kapoor's acting which definitely wasn't enough to keep the audience from leaving the theaters half way through the movie.

acidrosesrijit Rangoon - quite a movie! It's an action film, make no mistake about it. And it has generous dollops of epic romance, fortitude and a plethora of human emotions that all the characters wear on their sleeves. This is not a film that relies on symbolism or on subtlety. Quite in-your-face, this is a film set during the tumultuous times of the Indian Independence and the Second World War on a grand scale. What I really liked about the film is Vishal Bhardwaj's evident love of film-making that came out in the period-piece sets during Kangana's shooting of the wild Toofan Ki Beti. The sets, shooting styles evoked a heady mix of nostalgic 40's films with raucous action and macho heroines. The heady aroma of pop-culture was replete throughout the scenes, especially in Miss Julia's super heroine costume where she jumps like a skilled acrobat onto a chandelier and escapes with a hapless damsel against various goons. Her escape is nothing short of spectacular – high-kicks in leather- clad boots, followed by punches, an escape on a motorcycle that culminates in a high-flying sortie on a warplane. This is solid action and I could not help but wonder of the film within the film that - what was the sensational story of Toofan Ki Beti? The character of Miss Julia is the fulcrum – the character around which the situations revolve, but soon the war engulfs all. Like a bildungsroman, Miss Julia, a super heroine in the reel world, grows into maturity in her love for Nawab, into a super heroine in her own right. The culmination is poetic, and some might say, even clichéd, when she dons her costume one last time to save the love of her life. That her love is doomed and that the war finally subsumes all is tragic, but we are made to see into her mental growth, where she fights out of her naiveté, into a woman who finally finds her own voice – as an individual in her own right. The film also makes excellent use of the minor characters, how each build and adds to the atmosphere, to give a sense that there is a darker and massive backdrop against which the characters interplay their lives. Vishal Bhardwaj makes this an important locus in the film – the voices of the minor characters help the audience visualize, like a synecdoche, in quick snippets, of the freedom struggle, the INA, Subhas Bose, Hitler, Churchill and the whole vicious panorama of war. The characters of Zulfi, Julia's troupe, the war nurse, the Indian rajah all command significant screen time to build the context. The other important aspect of the film was to showcase the little known area of Arunachal Pradesh with its wild beauty. All the three main actors, Kangana, Shahid and Saif provide matured and stellar performances. But the scene steal-er was the evil British Major General, like Major Hans Landa – a suitable and stock villain, refusing to die. A film that is full on entertainment and with the right amount of drama. Not to be missed.