First look at Rann

Rann means battle. In society, large organised forces (read news channels, political parties and industrial czars) are not just involved in a fight with each other, but also battling a war within themselves. This is especially true of news channels.

Making news is not the easiest thing in the world, so the next best thing obviously would be to make anything and everything appear to be news. The way news is presented is more entertaining than family soaps and thrillers. What’s worse is that we enjoy this kind presentation.

The government, wealth creators and politicians are supposed to be working for the common people. The only way for the common man to know what these people are up to is through the media.
But in a free economy system where there is so much competition the media by default is lost in its purpose. The media is a reporting agency. It reports news. News is what is new. New is what you hear for the first time. So to be able to be the first to tell you the various newspapers and channels have an intense competition among themselves.

To be ahead of competition means more circulation and higher TRPs which in turn generate ad revenue. This translates into making more money. Rann exposes how the media has no choice but to corrupt itself to become a money-making and power-brokering enterprise.
The movie stars Amitabh Bachchan, Ritesh Deshmukh and Paresh Rawal among others. It is directed by Ram Gopal Varma.