Rang De Basanti
Rang De Basanti IPAr de bsnti English Colour it Saffron is a 2006 Indian drama film co written, co produced and directed by Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra. It features an ensemble cast comprising Aamir Khan, Siddharth Narayan, Soha Ali Khan, Kunal Kapoor, Madhavan, Sharman Joshi, Atul Kulkarni and British actress Alice Patten in the lead roles. Made on a budget of 250 million US3.7million, it was shot in and around New Delhi. Upon release, the film broke all opening box office records in India. It was the highestgrossing film in its opening weekend in India and had the highest opening day collections for a Bollywood film. The film was well received and praised for strong screenplay and dialogues.
A young, struggling British filmmaker Sue McKinley Alice Patten comes across the diary of her grandfather, Mr. McKinley Steven Mackintosh, who served as a jailer in the Imperial Police during the Indian independence movement. Through the diary, she learns about the story of five freedom fighters who were active in the movement Chandrasekhar Azad, Bhagat Singh, Shivaram Rajguru, Ashfaqulla Khan, and Ram Prasad Bismil. McKinley, in his diary, states that he had met two type of people in his life the first one... who died without uttering a sound and the second kind ... who died with lots of anguish.. crying over their deaths... McKinley reveals that it was then that he met with the third kind....Having decided to make a selffinanced documentary film about these revolutionaries, Sue travels to India, with the help of her friend, Sonia Soha Ali Khan, from the Institute for International Studies at the University of Delhi. After a few unsuccessful auditions in search of the actors, Sue finally casts Sonias friends, four young men Daljit DJ Aamir Khan, Karan Singhania Siddharth Narayan, Aslam Khan Kunal Kapoor and Sukhi Ram Sharman Joshi to portray the revolutionaries. ........
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