Rang De Basanti (Paint it Yellow) (2005)

80% of critics liked it
(5 reviews)
94% of users liked it
(19,244 ratings)

A young idealistic English filmmaker, Sue, arrives in India to make a film on Indian revolutionaries Bhagat Singh, Chandrashekhar Azad, and their contemporaries and their fight for freedom from the British Raj. Owing to a lack of funds, she recruits students from Delhi University to act in her… More A young idealistic English filmmaker, Sue, arrives in India to make a film on Indian revolutionaries Bhagat Singh, Chandrashekhar Azad, and their contemporaries and their fight for freedom from the British Raj. Owing to a lack of funds, she recruits students from Delhi University to act in her docu-drama. While making the film, the students come to realize the courage of the revolutionaries who struggled before them.

Rating, Runtime: Unrated, 2 hr. 40 min.
Directed By: Rakesh Omprakash Mehra, Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra
Genres: Drama, Action & Adventure, Art House & International

In Theaters: Jan 27, 2006 Wide
On DVD: Apr 21, 2009
Studio: UTV

Critic Reviews

G. Allen Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle
The simple-minded presentation ultimately makes it ring hollow.
Derek Elley, Variety
An ambitious melding of history, politics, romance and patriotism within the parameters of a commercial Hindi movie.
Jaspreet Pandohar, BBC
Accomplished and universally appealing, this is the way Bollywood films should be made.
David Chute, L.A. Weekly
Already a cultural phenomenon in India, this reformist melodrama by Rakesh Omprakash Mehra (Aks) uses razor-sharp technique and an eavesdropper's ear for dialogue to update the patriotic fervor of Bollywood's golden age.