Rang De Basanti (Paint it Yellow)

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

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
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.

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