Plot: Rang de Basanti is a film about awakening. About standing up for ones beliefs. Where the spirit of rebellion transcends time and age. A young idealistic English filmmaker, Sue, arrives in India to make a film on Indian revolutionaries Bhagat Singh, ... » Read the full story
Movie Details Genre: Drama
Running Time : 2 hrs. 37 mins.
Language: Hindi
Release Status and date: Released in 2005
Cast »
Aamir Khan - DJ / Chandrashekhar AzadAlice Payton - Sue
Kunal Kapoor - Aslam
Soha Ali Khan - Sonia / Durga Vohra
Siddharth - Karan/Bhagat Singh
Production Credits
Director: Rakeysh Omprakash MehraProducer: Adam Bohling , Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra , David Reed
Written by: Renzil D'Silva , Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra , Kamlesh Pandey
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Reviews »
Rang de basanti - Really !? Oh - not again !!Rang de basanti - points to ponder esp. for a person like me - I have been to college - a girls college though (thank God ! or else the strong Libran romantic streak that I possess ..I would have done the blunder of falling in love with any available ‘bloke') but the scenario was very different then (1991)...just about a decade has passed and so much decadence !!
1.Boys watching Fashion TV in College Canteen!
2. Heroine is seen wearing a 'colored baniyaan' (men's singlet/vest) with floral designed petticoat throughout the movie - what a dress code to college !! no duppatta on top as well !!
3.Indians always need some 'gori chamdi' (Fair Skinned) to awaken them from their ‘deep slumber'?!
4.Story of Instant Karma - bcoz such utterly wasteful fools enacted the Great Freedom fighters - the Spirits / soul/ghosts of the freedom fighters got them killed !
5. when they could 'take over' the radio station - then why not do so before 'killing' some Minister - the entire nation would have heard your grievance and acted promptly ...methinks.
6.I feel that the rock-baaz, unemployed sons of Mother Kolkata are more intelligent than the educated fools - once in Barasat there was a problem to be resolved - the 'thugs' just barged in the local Cable operator's office and delinked the satellite transmission - 2 days we were sitting without watching TV ...eventually all their grievances were taken care of!- NO BLOOD SHED- or hunger strike here - plain use of brains & technology !!
7. Having watched movies like Hey Ram,Pinjar,Gadar,1947-Earth…..etc, movies on independence wars...i feel that in a way it was good that the foreigners invaded India and made it more versatile ..or else we - Indian woman esp. would still have been door mats & baby producing machines all our lives..under egoistic blokes!the fact that foreigners invaded - we came to know how poor are our men as far as 'protecting our dignity' is concerned !!Absolute failures!! In Hey Ram - a couple of Indian slum dwellers 'gang rape' Rani Mukherjee!! after tying her boyfriend (kamal Hassan)- later kamal kills them! So!? whats the big deal?! Rani died - the woman died along with her trust on men...& love for men..for having failed her….being unable to protect her dignity.
Also in Pinjar - couple of Indian Freedom fighters were working day & night to 'free India' from the shackles of British rule whereas a different Indian group (born to probably lower class,uneducated cadre)- were kidnapping Indian women to make them their maids & kepts !!
In Jaliyan Wala Baag ...just 2 -3 British Officers were there giving orders - the ones who shot the people assembled at the Baag were Indian Soldiers working for British Army ! So ? - it has always been like this - only tall claims of brotherhood is made - actually Indian males (esp. the ones in power) are just 'egoistic' failure blokes....who could not,till date, construct a proper Administrative Structure to take care of Indian citizens..the entire Nation just seem to be busy promoting ‘Whoredom' in India – just like it had been eons ago – Women to be used as a ‘sex object' only. Period !
Also seen in 1947 Earth , Nandita Das (playing the role of a maid servant in this movie) had been pally to most of the males in her locality – but during the times of unrest – the same males drag her out to ‘gang rape' her !- this means while she had been mixing with such men on a friendlier terms – the ‘sex-starved' brutes had somehow managed to act ‘courteous' by being polite to her…but given 1/4 th a chance – those very ‘male friends' (between the age group of 21 to 65) pounce on her like hungry wolves!! – they were all Indians – no British Officer here !!
Conclusion : Many will take this review very badly...well maybe they could sing a song like 'apni to paathshalla masti ki pathsalla' during their school/college days - who were born to the very rich - and were sure that they have ample 'financial security' so just came to college to enjoy and eve tease - or belonged to very poor families - brainless - just frustrated to see the rich and the beautiful / handsome and imagined how lovely it would have been to be born in some rich family - thus follow the rich fools blindly ..maybe for free treats etc.
But we belong to middle class families - we have enough of everything and we understand the essence of education - for us 'apni pasthshalla was serious paathshalla' - we studied for late hours to get good marks so that we could get a good job somewhere - and not booze and drink at some rich wasteful 'Idiot's' expense !!
