Lage Raho Munnabhai & Munnabhai MBBS

Both the movies have the ability to pierce your heart. I feel that the momentum created by the first was carried forward by the second with equal aplomb. Slight change the characters was needed to make sure that it doesn't turn out a cliched 'me-too' kind of movie and they were modified but the whole feel of the first one remains, which is the unfelt strength of the movie. Usually the second movie fizzles away, simply unable to keep the momentum - there are many like, Terminator 3 which fall flat on its face! When Terminator 2 was released, the computer graphics industry was probably in its infancy and only the super rich movie studios could afford the graphics used in the terminiator 2. Ten years on, it wasn't just the big budgeted producers who could afford snazzy graphics, what with whole animated movies like Antz, Ice Age being released with animated characters as stars!

Now comming back to the movie contrast, the second munnabhai is probably better simply because it had to live up to the enermous expectations created by the mega success of first one. The emotion charged scenes are the ones that makes it worth watching particularly the scene where jimmy shergill's conversation with his father and the request by the RJ(sanjay dutt).

I feel the relevancy of Mahatma Gandhi in the present society, aptly dubbed "gandhigiri" was well superimposed. The victory of truth over other is what seems the message of the movie. Hard to implement in the real world i guess, but i feel that it can implemented in a personal space. If you love someone, go and tell him/her honestly how you feel....hmmm , now i know how gutsy that good 'ol mahatma might have been.

I feel that saying 'sorry' for your mistakes is the hardest thing in this planet. How good it would be if we can cultivate this habit of saying sorry...yeah it is better said than done. In the scene where sanjay dutt reveals that he is not a professor, knowing fully well that she will not like, that is when you realize how much or to what extent truth hurts!

While watching that movie I remembered other movie "liar liar". Jim Carrey is a lawyer or attorney in that movie. So he is by default a lair. He gives all sorts or excuses for not keeping promises to his family. So his son wishes that his dad never lie in his life. That is when you realize how much a lie can help in your life or how much it is useful. I sometimes feel that lying to save someone or save someone's love or life is much more valuable than saying the truth and letting someone die or something!