Rang De Basanti’s colours and more

Have you seen Rang De Basanti? It is one of the most colourful movies with a message for the youth. The movie became extremely famous at the time when it was released, a few years go. The magic of the movie continues to engage and bind the audience and cinema lovers with its colourful cast and script.

The movie was about one’s youth being so completely indulgent with their lives that they do not pay enough attention to the nation’s black corruption and all the grey evils that hamper the nation’s growth!

The movie begins with the screenplay of carefree, colourful and youthful moments being shown between the friends studying at the University of Delhi and progresses to show their transformation into responsible young brigade who goes onto act extremely revolutionarily by the end. It is simply brilliant how the facts from the past have been blended with the present in the movie to give a creative and colourful edge to the script that’s unique and special in many ways. Furthermore, the presence of the foreigner explaining the value of nationalism to the carefree youth is an angle to the script that can never go unnoticed and definitely adds volumes of colour to the storyline and the characterization in the legend of a movie!

All of the above and the proper Punjabi, peppy and colourful songs of the music have made the movie a delight and joy to watch over and over again! Rang De Basanti yaar…..Let’s colour it sunshine and a happy yellow for it is the colour of high spirits and of loving one’s country...

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Over expression kills it

What is expression? Expression is all about letting it out, instead of holding inside one’s reactions, one’s feelings and emotions. Dulux believes that expression is good. It is good to show what’s there in the mind, what’s there in the heart and what our soul says.

Not everyone can say what they feel. Sometimes, since we live in a society, it is not always good to just blurt out whatever one feels. People have to guard their reactions, their emotions and their sentiments. And why is that? The filter is required for expressing too, because it helps in protecting one’s inner self that has a frame and nature which is fragile and malleable. It is good to not show all that one feels all the time.

However, it is important that one expresses when one it comes to love, sympathy, compassion and kindness. Positive emotions are worth expressing always. The negative emotions like jealousy, anger and envy etc. have to be kept under wraps and not shown or expressed as much. Why? It is because negative expression deteriorates the positivism in one’s life.

Balancing the emotions and expressions is the key that has to be followed when it comes to expression. Excess of everything is harmful. If one shows all the goodness, all the negative emotions; it does no good. Over expression kills the effect of expression per say; even if the expression is positive, if it is over done then the value of expression is lost. Therefore, make sure that you express as Dulux says ‘apne rang chalakne do’ but at the same time it is good to balance the colours of expression to be visible for everyone to see. Express as the need be, without overdoing it. Think it from the heart, you’ll have all the answers.

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Dulux TVC

Did you check out our new TVC starring Shahid Kapoor, Boman Irani and Neha? The advertisement connects to each one of us at many levels! First and foremost, the cute chocolate boy looking Shahid Kapoor has an adorable screen presence. The way Shahid talks and walks and carries himself, it is very natural and has a familiar feel.

They say great acting doesn’t have any trace superimposed and acquired conduct. Shahid’s and Neha’s chemistry is a proof enough of natural and free-flowing acting. Chemistry between two people is something of an invisible connection that comes forth only through body language, eye contact and the way the two people interact. It’s this chemistry that makes two people look good together and makes the virtual and on-screen relationship that the people share seem like a natural bond. Shahid and Neha in the advertisement look young and very much in love, owing to the great chemistry both of them share. Boman Irani is another ace actor who outshines in the role of Neha’s father. Just like all the fathers, Boman is shown to be protective towards his onscreen daughter. The sweet and subtle acting by everyone in the TVC makes it a delight to watch.

The way the colour Rascal red is interpreted and connected to, in the TVC, makes for an interesting aspect of representation. The TVC focuses on Boman getting his living room walls painted in rascal red and bubbly green. The colour rascal red is not just a colour, it becomes a metaphor through the advertisement. Boman is disapproving of the ‘rascal’ red colour for his walls and by implication, Shahid- the rascal dating his daughter. Though, with a twist of the tale, Shahid fixes Boman’s knee issue which makes Boman’s heart melt and turn in favour of the ‘rascal’ and the rascal red colour too!

The interpretations, connections, parallels and expressions surrounding the rascal red colour in the TVC are interesting to watch and make the TVC very unique and endearing!

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