Rang De Basanti – The Youth Awakens…on the wrong side of bed

This movie Rang De Basanti, or RDB as it is being called by the youth who have awakened after watching the movie should be categorized under comedy and should be given a rating 60+ (fit of anyone above 60 years of age) universally.
The tagline of the movie is ‘The Youth Awakens’ – I awoke when the movie was over, so the tagline is one thing which seems correct other than that its just a gibberish with a few 40 year old youths stripping down and waving their clothes at Mig-21. What exactly is the point of waving your shirt at passing-by Mig-21 still remains to be answered as do a lot many questions which crept up my mind. I am sure that not even the director (don’t remember and don’t want to remember his/her name) knows.
Let us try and analyse what it is exactly which made them claim that this cinema will enable the youth to awaken. Firstly, like in a typical Hindi cinema, the hero is shown as a lifeline of his friend circle; he likes to drink beer and jump in pool when he gets drunk and oh, he also likes to slap his own butt while dancing around British female. They also are a bunch of losers and often look down upon those who want to do something meaningful in their life.
So far so good, it does seem that the youth of India is sleeping – at this point it should be fair to assume that four or five losers of a college, unlike thousands who study and do well, can be taken as representatives of Indian youths.
One fine morning, they decide that they have really awakened and hence decide to kill the defence minister. Though the cinema tries to justify the murdering of defence minister by showing that their friend’s fiancé died while piloting mig-21 and defence minister put the blame on pilot. But the awakened youth has not realized the power of elections in democracy like India, may be they woke up on the wrong side of the bed. Killing ministers is spreading terror and terrorism is bad Mr. Khan, do you know that? Uncle Sam will not like it at all.
Proceeding with the story, the youth of India having decided to kill the minister go on and kill him and miraculously, don’t get caught. They have an easy-to-follow five step plan to kill the minister:
1. acquire a pistol
2. acquire a bike – don’t bother to put a fake number plate
3. study the daily routine of defence minister of India (somehow they manage to do that and in this case find out that he goes out for morning walks)
4. kill him while he goes for morning walk
5. run away
All this can be done; ministers do go out on morning walks. But to my disappointment I noticed that ministers live in high security zone of Lutyen’s Delhi. Even if you manage to shoot at minister there are ambulances on standby, there are police jeeps which can catch you in no time at all – for heaven's sake, you are planning to attack the defence minister himself, that too in the safest corridors of Delhi.
Then, after escaping successfully, they feel they didn’t get enough ‘kick’ to awaken properly. Another idea pops up; they decide to confess their crime on a no lesser medium than All India Radio. They enter the building of All India Radio and surprisingly, metal detectors do not detect their guns – after entering they announce happily that they killed the minister. Having got the morning jolt their faces turn happy, now the youth is ready to go to work!
But you see, terrorists should not be allowed to go to work. Anti-Terrorist forces see to it that the awakened youth is put to sleep again. Sigh! I love happy endings!