Rang De Basanti (Paint it Yellow) (2005)
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80% of critics liked it
(5 reviews) -
94% of users liked it
(19,608 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.
- Directed By
- Rakesh Omprakash Mehra, Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra
- Genres
- Drama, Action & Adventure, Art House & International
Unrated,
- In Theaters
- Jan 27, 2006 Wide
- Studio
- UTV
Critic Reviews
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G. Allen Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle
The simple-minded presentation ultimately makes it ring hollow.
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Derek Elley, Variety
An ambitious melding of history, politics, romance and patriotism within the parameters of a commercial Hindi movie.
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Jaspreet Pandohar, BBC
Accomplished and universally appealing, this is the way Bollywood films should be made.
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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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Cast
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Aamir Khan
as Daljeet AKA 'D.J.'
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Siddharth
as Karan
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Kunal Kapoor
as Aslam
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Sharman Joshi
as Sukhi
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Alice Patten
as Sue
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Soha Ali Khan
as Sonia
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Madhavan
as Ajay
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Kirron Kher
as Mitro
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Om Puri
as Amanullah Khan
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Waheeda Rehman
as Ajay's mother
- Anupam Kher
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Steven McKintosh
as James McKinley
- Mohan Agashe
- K.K. Raina
- Lekh Tandon
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Atul Kulkarni
as Laxman Pandey
