REAL FM by ANURAG BASU on MTV

 

Last week as my blog turned 1(ONE-Happy Birthday) , I finally decided to register it on INDIBLOGGER, a website for bloggers across the country which acts like a forum with regular meets and events. To my surprise I got a special invite for a screening of a short film written and produced by ANURAG BASU which was sponsored by HUL for its brand SUNSILK and will be aired on MTV tonight at 7 PM IST. I was absolutely thrilled because I have been a great fan of ANURAG since the time he directed the fabulously entertaining LIFE IN A METRO in 2007 and followed it up with BARFI in 2012. It was also a chance to meet fellow bloggers and to experience first-hand the ground realities of blogging in India. 

REAL FM is a story of three girls in their early twenties who are close friends and suddenly find themselves running a radio station for one day (Independence Day). The circumstances leading them there is for you to find out on MTV tonight. The movie actually has a clichéd start and for people like me who like to write reviews it was like a trap as I had already written the movie off in the first 5 mins and was looking towards exploring the blogging part post the screening and that’s where the story turned. 

A crisis in the family, young generation which is not motivated enough, a girl scared of her family, exams, boyfriends, office tensions, it couldn’t have been more mundane and boring to begin with, but that is the beauty of REAL FM as it is showing you the reality of average people who are so obsessed with their own struggles to not know “in which part of the country is TRIPURA located” and that is where the narrative picks up, confronted with a gigantic task of running a Radio station for a day, the girls come with the idea that instead of playing anthems like other stations they will play a song each from every state of the country and thus begins a journey which mesmerises with melodies from every corner of the country, the music clearly demonstrates BASU’s knack for picking great beats as he has demonstrated in METRO and BARFI. 

Many characters are introduced in the middle just like a lot of characters were beautifully woven in METRO and they all play their parts to the T, but the highlight remains the musical tributes from all the states of the country and the girls who bring them together on REAL FM. Catch this wonderful journey of today’s youth who might not know where TRIPURA is for starters but have their heart in the right place to acknowledge and embrace it whenever they come to know about it. 

 

               So catch the hour long feature directed by AKARSH KHURANA tonight on MTV at 7 PM.