After the interval part of the Delhiwood movie has all, that even a bollywood can't boast of, superb costume planning, military savey discipline and march past, filmy theme play of "Sabse Bada Rupaya", robotly managed security, and lastly a melodrama with a flop actor and crisping national political tragedy, all in one, the best box-office hit Masala movie, "Sonia Gandhi zindabad".
The writer of the theme ""Why Calling Sonia’s Rally Massive Won’t Make it a Massive Success ?" narrates more visuals :,
"Congress workers with daubs of orange, green and white on their cheeks, waving inflated tubes in national colours, pose happily for cameras. “Topi lagao (put on your cap)” one Congressman admonishes another as they spot cameras pointed at them. The Congress has left no stone unturned to pack in the crowds.
On the road leading to the rally, a Congress van parked outside a chicken market blares rally propaganda as volunteers hand out Congress visors to passersby. At the rally grounds, several hours before the rally begins, Congress workers in white, complete with Nehru caps and an orange-white-green sash knotted around their necks, march by in little groups, representing various neighbourhoods and assembly districts, shouting Sonia Gandhi zindabad."
He surprises,"It all has the feel of a march past at the school sports event.The bored media waiting for someone to get the mysterious “communication” to let them in ask the marchers to stop and pose.”Itna jaldi kya hain? (What’s the hurry?)” a cameraman says. “Sonia Gandhi won’t be here for hours.”
The security personnel open ups with friendly views,“I have seen air conditioned buses coming in from UP packed with supporters,” a security officer tells me. The officer, who lives in North Delhi’s Rohini neighbourhood, shrugs and says all these rallies are just show anyway. The night before the election, parties will just roll out the alcohol, distribute the money and then take the happily hungover citizenry to the polling booth and tell them to stamp on their symbol.
The problem with a high profile campaigner like Sonia Gandhi is that there are so many security personnel milling around in camouflage uniforms, with walkie talkies, barking orders into the phone, the rally struggles to project any feeling of spontaneity. It’s unavoidable. The spectre of Rajiv Gandhi’s assassination is never far away. “No gifts, no mementos, no bouquets,” a security officer tells his subordinates. “Remember it just took some flowers that time.”
He enjoys the circulating jokes,"While Sonia’s foes make fun of her stilted Hindi, for Congress supporters, it’s actually endearing that she makes the effort. Making speeches does not come naturally to her. She comes across as rather prim schoolmistress. She sticks firmly to her script. Her voice quavers, sounds almost plaintive until the final Jai Hind which she delivers with sudden verve. She does not have Narendra Modi’s penchant for the sly wisecrack. Yet she tries gamely. Haath kangan ko aarsi kya she said rather awkwardly, almost hesitantly trying out an alien idiom about what’s already visible not needing a mirror. The crowd laughs indulgently. It’s different from the roars of glee that one of Narendra Modi’s jabs can produce but no less genuine.
He clarifies the bare facts,"Yet in the end, the problem is none remembered exactly what she says. They came to see her, not necessarily hear her. Fakirchand Munde, a Congress worker from the Gandhinagar vidhan sabha constituency, has come to the rally on crutches. He lost his leg to illness years ago. He says Sonia’s speech was badhia (excellent) but when asked which part was the most badhia, he is at a loss. Perhaps all that about Delhi and its vikas (development) he says after some hesitation. Suraj Yadav, standing outside the venue, says he liked the speech but cannot pinpoint what he liked about it.
At the Modi rally, his supporters happily parroted back reams of his speech. Yadav says he will vote for the Congress because they had made his colony pukki (permanent). Yadav has a point. Elections, in the final reckoning are won, on the basis of promises made, promises kept, and promises believed.
INDIA HONEST pokes into Indian history,almost a century back, when Dhoti clad, thousands of Indians used to march past in a row for "Satayagrah Movement" chasing White Sahibs,again turns a leaf of the Indian history book in 21st century,where the similar villagers learning some Hindi idioms written in Roman script from a White woman.