Bombay movie review: Ratnam-Rahman-Romance-RIOTS

So I watched Bombay a couple days after watching Roja, and obviously my brain kept comparing this movie to Roja because Ratnam, Rahman, Romance, TERRORISM. They both also kinda started in the same way: Aravind Swamy gets married, they love. Couple songs happen. Then the political country invades their life.

But Bombay was much more impactful. Or maybe emotional.

Whatever. You get the point.

Bombay did make me feel more than Roja did. I'm not a crier, but if I get sad during a movie, you can see it on my face, and Bombay made me feel that way, which is kinda rare because I don't really emotionally connect (if that's the right word) to movies. The second half just got harder and harder and harder to watch, but when their home EXPLODED and the kids were getting TRAMPLED, I didn't want to SEE all of that. My brain didn't allow me to continue, so I took a break.

My break wasn't exactly as beneficial as I hoped it would be. I looked up from my school laptop (where I was watching the movie) to the TV, which was playing CNN (the news).

And the news was more reports about the riots around George Floyd's death. It was people flipping over cars and setting them on fire, which is basically what happened in the movie too.

So I got up and ate some food instead. I didn't want to see all that. It made me feel sad.

Anyways, the movie did obviously have more to it that romance and terorrism.

The idea of India being "our land" instead of just the land of a single religion (when shown in movies) has changed a lot over time.

My opinion is that it had more impact in older movies. Now, if you take any random movie (Let's take Sarileru neekevvaru), they just throw a few words in here and there, then give a lecture about how they serve their motherland. That isn't how patriotism should be represented, or at least explained in a movie. You can't just say that the country has to be united through a lecture, like they do in modern movies. In older movies, (obviously Bombay as an example), that patriotism comes out from the character's heart and their situation, and not just from a measly script/screenplay.

And I honestly don't know if this is really how karma works, but when Aravind Swamy yelled out of frustration, he did something good (in a sense) for the people around him, and then his kids showed up.

This is what I like to call, "you do good and good happens to you." (I feel that the word karma is just too short.)