Masand Movie Review: Rann, embarrassingly ill-researched

In the climax of Ramgopal Varma's Rann, Amitabh Bachchan's character, a senior respected journalist Vijay Harshvardhan Malik delivers an eight-minute impassioned monologue explaining the relevance and the responsibility of the media. Earlier on in the same film, this pillar of journalistic integrity agrees to air an anonymously received sting-operation that implicates the country's Prime Minister for his involvement in a communal riot, without so much as verifying the source of the footage or investigating its authenticity.