(In a rough savage tone…) Awwwesome!

Abhishek Bachchan surely is no Rahul Gandhi. He’s his own creation.

Vidya Balan was beautiful. Good performance. I have to say I felt so bad for her character in the movie

Aishwarya Rai is either dancing or crying half of the time. She did both very well.

Madhavan, as usual, was superb.

The music was good yeah but the timing of the songs was an irritation. As usual, they screwed the momentum of the movie. The first song featuring Mallika Sherawat was completely pointless but arent our songs always pointless?

The movie has a hard and, of course, well deserved kick in the butt for our glorious, eminently rational and socially just license raj regime.

Yes, the protagonist is one who has many charges levelled against him (evasion of tax and duty, fraud etc.) in the movie but… the movie isnt about good vs. evil. It’s about the road to success, the realisation of dreams, of a failure-at-school-always-scolded-by-his father but brash and highly ambitious lower middle class villager and the obstacles he faces on that path. It’s not another fight between the good guys and the bad guys in which the good guys beat the hell out of the bad guys during the climax. I’m already seeing Lefties and Pinkos go berserk on Internet fora criticising the movie for portraying a tax evading capitalist as the protagonist. Dont make that mistake. What is it with these people that makes them so paranoid about the word “capitalist”?

“Capitalism” must be the most powerful word in the socialist world. The mere utterance of the words “capitalism”, “globalisation”, “free market” or “free enterprise” sends them into a mad frenzy. They rush to the moral highground and yell at the pedestrian scum that we are that making profit and being rich is bad or immoral (even our school textbooks and teachers participate in this), completely oblivious to their own immorality in saying that a person should not have the right to own what he rightfully owns and that the fruits of his/her own hardwork, blood and sweat should be freely distributed among the population. This movie has a lesson for all these people because Guru’s company is a “peoples’ company” because it’s made up of public shares and one that has transformed the lives of its millions of shareholders, most of who are from the lower middle class. Maybe that is what frustrates them… that capitalism can also do good at all!

The best and the most electrifying moment: those five minutes near the end of the movie during which Abhishek delivers one of the best performances in Indian cinema, ever.

The last line: “Banna chahte ho DUNIYA ki sabse badi company”? Everybody in the stadium erupts: “Yeah!!!”

Watch it.