RINGA
RINGA
Ringa
Ringa. The viewer walks into the movie wondering about the context of the
title. Is the title a ripoff from the song 'Ring Ring Ringa' from the movie
that put Bollywood on the Hollywood map - 'Slumdog Millionaire'? Beginning on
the note of political scheming, the movie initially dons the garb of a
political thriller. As the movie saunters ahead, it transforms into a story
seemingly revolving around Siddharth, the character of the honest cop played by
Bharat Jadhav. But before you realise, the movie has slipped into a woman
centric narrative, centered around Manasi, the character fleshed out very
believably by Sonali Kulkarni.
In
the meanwhile your mind keeps on wandering back to the title. Ringa Ringa. Is
it a take on the continuous barrage of innane nursery rhymes dished out by the
predicably stereotype eccentric henchman of the corrupt politician Rangrao,
played by Ajinkya Deo? The story reaches a point where all the twists and turns
in the story seem like one-dimensional efforts to unravel the mystery. You have
by now given up on the intellectual merit of the story.
Ringa Ringa. The title comes back to perturb you as you still have not
deconstructed the idea behind it. The movie, however, comes into its own
towards the end. All your satirical responses till now are put to test, and
then rest, as the story waltzes to its end with a fairly 'sixth sense'esqe
unraveling of the storyline. The finale
is high on the feel good factor, with the just being vindicated and the unjust
being punished.
Ringa
Ringa. At the dusk of the movie it finally dawns on you that the title could be
an allusion to all the phone calls that find themselves important milestones in
this circuitous narrative.
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