What
is the movie about?
In
his diary, McKinley, a jailor in British-era India, writes about five
Indian patriots whose commitment to Indian Independence shook his
very belief system. Many decades later, McKinley's granddaughter, Sue
arrives in India to make a documentary based on this diary and casts
a group of happy-go-lucky friends to play the patriots. In a sudden
spiralling of circumstances, their lives end up mirrorring those of
the heroic martyrs they portray.
Who
is it by?
Rang
De Basanti was scripted and directed by Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra. He
later went on to make Delhi-6 which won the Nargis
Dutt Award for Best Feature Film on National Integration for
2009.
Why
should I watch it?
The
movie portrays how the country's collective memory of rebellion
during the Indian freedom struggle resonates even today, in the angst
of the youth in contemporary India.
Rang
De Basanti won the National Film Award for Best Popular Film
Providing Wholesome Entertainment for 2005. It is also the first
Indian movie to be nominated by BAFTA in 2006 in the Best Film Not In
the English Language category.
An edited version of the article was published in Culturama's August 2012 Issue.
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