Rang De Basanti
Rang De Basanti is a movie about the youth in India. The movie starts with a London based filmmaker Sue McKinley. Sue stumbles about her grandfathers (a British Army Captain in India, when India was a British Colony) and is mesmerized by the stories about the young freedom fighters and decides to make a docudrama about these freedom fighters
Sue lands in New Delhi to meet her friend Sonia who studies in the Delhi University. Auditioning for the roles of the freedom fighters, Sue finds that none who turned up in the Delhi University are capable enough to play such roles. Sensing her frustration, her friend Sonia invites her to go the 'Classroom’, which is an abandoned old fort in the outskirts of the city, where her group of hedonistic friends party.
She meets Sonia's friends DJ (Daljeet), Aslam, Sukhi and Karan. In these happy go lucky friends of Sonia's, she sees the same strong spirit of the Freedom fighters and convinces them to play the parts, although they are reluctant. Belonging to a generation of Consumerism, these young men and women find it hard to identify with the characters that lived and died for Independence sixty years ago.
This movie explores with the awakening of these youth from a meaningless life to a meaningful one, where they take responsibility of their actions. The movie juxtaposes the struggles that the freedom fighters and these youth had to encounter.
Nominated for the Oscars from India this year for the 'Foreign Film Category', this is a must see movie and reflects how the new generation lives in India. For those of you who would want to watch this movie, please get hold of Annamalai who has the DVD for this movie. I have seen this movie five times, myself.