When you decide to watch a movie by the name of Youngistaan, you don't have too much expectation from the movie. Without reading reviews or watching trailers, you would expect it to be a movie with a social message that talks about youth power.
The movie began on a different note with a scene in Japan showing two developers, who work at a gaming company being summoned by their boss. Apparently, a colleague of theirs (who was a beta tester) had taken credit for the game that they had developed. Even at this juncture, the expectations from the movie would be vastly different from what it actually turns out to be.
Soon, it is revealed that one of the game developers (and the protagonist Jackky Bhagnani), is the son of the Prime Minister of India, who is about to die of cancer. And post his death, Jackky is chosen by the party leaders as their next Prime Minister since no one is willing to assume responsibility (on account of a declining public perception of the party and the government)
The rest of the movie is more of an advertisement for a secular political party and its "young leader". The movie revolves around how he tackles party politics, deals with senior party leaders, eliminates dissent in the party and manages to gain the trust of young voters by declaring populist schemes for the youth and by ordering an enquiry against a very senior leader of his own political party.
Apparently, in less than three months as Prime Minister, he is also able to create systemic changes in voting - by introducing e-voting through mobile smartphones.
The movie also weaves in the finer aspects of him being in a live-in relationship over the past three years with his girlfriend, who also gets pregnant while he is in office and the news eventually leaking to the media. A supposedly conservative audience in a rural "Sitapur" from where he fights elections and wins by a record 4.5 Lakh votes does not seem to care about his personal life.
The music is average with the exception of "Suno Na Sangemarmar", which comes twice - once in the middle and once at the end.
My piece of advice - watch this as a light hearted comedy. Take your brains out while watching this movie. There is enough meat in the movie (at least in the first half) to keep you watching.Where it gets boring is in the second half, with the introduction of a serious political campaign.
The movie began on a different note with a scene in Japan showing two developers, who work at a gaming company being summoned by their boss. Apparently, a colleague of theirs (who was a beta tester) had taken credit for the game that they had developed. Even at this juncture, the expectations from the movie would be vastly different from what it actually turns out to be.
Soon, it is revealed that one of the game developers (and the protagonist Jackky Bhagnani), is the son of the Prime Minister of India, who is about to die of cancer. And post his death, Jackky is chosen by the party leaders as their next Prime Minister since no one is willing to assume responsibility (on account of a declining public perception of the party and the government)
The rest of the movie is more of an advertisement for a secular political party and its "young leader". The movie revolves around how he tackles party politics, deals with senior party leaders, eliminates dissent in the party and manages to gain the trust of young voters by declaring populist schemes for the youth and by ordering an enquiry against a very senior leader of his own political party.
Apparently, in less than three months as Prime Minister, he is also able to create systemic changes in voting - by introducing e-voting through mobile smartphones.
The movie also weaves in the finer aspects of him being in a live-in relationship over the past three years with his girlfriend, who also gets pregnant while he is in office and the news eventually leaking to the media. A supposedly conservative audience in a rural "Sitapur" from where he fights elections and wins by a record 4.5 Lakh votes does not seem to care about his personal life.
The music is average with the exception of "Suno Na Sangemarmar", which comes twice - once in the middle and once at the end.
My piece of advice - watch this as a light hearted comedy. Take your brains out while watching this movie. There is enough meat in the movie (at least in the first half) to keep you watching.Where it gets boring is in the second half, with the introduction of a serious political campaign.
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