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RGV Ki Aag

Ram Gopal Varma is without doubt one of my favourite directors in Indian cinema just for the reason that he made Shiva, Satya and Company! This along with Mohanlal being cast in the film are the only two reasons why I bought the DVD of aag home and sat through the entire film. 
First things first, I also don't believe that Sholay is the greatest movie made in India! But yes indeed it does work as a very interesting film. I remember very little of Sholay now but I do have the idea of the proceedings as I sat to watch Ramu's version. The last one hour of the film and the romance between Ajay Devgan and Nisha Kothari could be considered as one of the most terrifying bit of film making especially because it comes from Ram Gopal Varma. The songs where horrible expect for the track Aag and the background score was simply too loud for me! The cinematography was fine but it did make me dizzy after a while!
But Amitabh Bachchan and Mohanlal gave splendid performances though Mohanlal's Hindi did sound horrible! There scenes together held the film to a great extent. It is after the flashback episode of the character of Narasimha, played by Mohanlal, that the movie begins to go completely out of Ramu's hands. 
There are indeed horrible things happening in Aag but it is definitely sad to see it at the bottom list of imdb because I'm definite that there are plenty more movies worse than this!
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