Rang de Basanti (Paint it Yellow)
A group of friends in Delhi come together to make a film about India’s legendary freedom fighters.
A British filmmaker (Alice Patten), inspired by her grandfather’s diaries, goes to India to make a film about the Indian freedom fighter, Bhagat Singh, and his peers. In Delhi, she meets a group of friends (Aamir Khan, Soha Ali Khan, Siddharth, Kunal Kapoor, Sharman Joshi, and Atul Kulkarni) and casts them in her film. What follows is a dramatic awakening of these youth set against the backdrop of Delhi sites and rural Punjab. This film is a major blockbuster in India and features a fantastic soundtrack by A.R. Rahman.
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Exceptional - srini88
While foreign viewers may have a hard time relating to this movie, to me growing up in India this was an amazing movie. It identified the rage we all faced growing up at the corruption, politics that keeps our country from being a super power. The near perfect juxtaposition of past and present was great and for me this was one of the first movies from Bollywood that was both stylish and thought provoking..Aamir Khan set the trend for his brand of stylish ground breaking movies from here onYoung disillusioned men - mxg123
Five young men embark on a filming trip with a British girl, which is trying to do a documentary film based on journals written by her grandfather when he was in the British controlling army of India. The British controlling period of India has always been portrayed as a sad moment in the British-Indian affairs, and this British girl’s portrayal of it in her film does not differ. The five young men then get involved in a current India political situation, involving killing an Indian politician, which ends all their lives.Revolution revisited - Rocky_Al
This almost three hour long work has everything: history, action, drama, scandal, corruption, love, murder, repression. Oh! no sex!
It explores the mindset of a young India generation, bent on pleasure and how it is transformed by circumstances into one with a fighting spirit like the revolutionaries from the days of the Raj.
It is not a film without flaws. The portrayal of a nice UK girl-with-a-camera as a working film director without any of the accoutrement of a real film crew, the sweet-soapy seemingly unnecessary interludes, the cartoon-strip-like discontinuity of the story line gives it sometimes the impression of being stylised beyond need. What? -Three hours is long enough!
In spite of that I happily give the film four stars for its sheer energy, its acting, its historical content and its sound track.
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Exceptional - srini88
While foreign viewers may have a hard time relating to this movie, to me growing up in India this was an amazing movie. It identified the rage we all faced growing up at the corruption, politics that keeps our country from being a super power. The near perfect ...Young disillusioned men - mxg123
Five young men embark on a filming trip with a British girl, which is trying to do a documentary film based on journals written by her grandfather when he was in the British controlling army of India. The British controlling period of India has always been ...Revolution revisited - Rocky_Al
This almost three hour long work has everything: history, action, drama, scandal, corruption, love, murder, repression. Oh! no sex!
It explores the mindset of a young India generation, bent on pleasure and how it is transformed by circumstances into ...