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Rang De Basanti
Cast Aamir Khan, Soha Ali Khan, Waheeda Rehman, Om Puri
Director Rakeysh Om Prakash Mehra
Genre Drama
Year 2006
RANG DE BASANTI is a story about the youth of India today.
A young, London based filmmaker chances upon the diaries of her grandfather, who
served in the British police force in India during the freedom struggle. Excited
about these memoirs, she makes plans to shoot a film on the Indian
revolutionaries mentioned in the diaries. She comes down to Delhi, and casts a
group of five friends to play the pivotal roles of these revolutionaries.
However, products of modern India, the five youngsters initially refuse to be
part of the project, as they don't identify with these characters from the past.
Not surprising, considering that they're part of a generation of Indians that
believes in consumerism. To them issues like patriotism and giving one's life
for one's beliefs is the stuff stuffy text books are made of. They would rather
party than be patriots.
In the film both British India past and the India today run parallel and
intersect with each other at crucial points. As the film reaches its resolution
the line between past and present blurs, as they become one in spirit.
   
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