Movie Review: "Aarakshan" is a Foolish Fantasy Film
W hen one makes a movie about an important social issue that touches the lives of countless people, it comes with a responsibility to stay grounded and as real as possible, and most of all, be sincere towards the issue more than anything else. If you are looking at “Aarakshan” as one such movie about the crucial issue of reservations in the Indian education system, then you are in for a big practical joke that director Prakash Jha has played with movie-watchers all across. “Aarakshan” may be a mash-up of several hot topics loosely touched with the intention of gaining on their importance in our hearts, but it is definitely not a movie about reservations. In fact, it would be even unfair to call it a movie about us- real people who live in this society. "Aarakshan" is more like a poor fiction movie with un-relatable characters, that swiftly jumps shamelessly from one important issue like reservation to others like commercialization and politicization of pre-college education w