Incredible!

Rating: 10/10 (18 March 2006)

I started out not liking this film but by the end, I was in tears, I was inspired and most importantly, my life was different from they way it was before I saw the film, which I think was the director's ultimate goal. I learned two things from this movie and the first one is that things will always be the same if we all just sit down and do nothing about it, and the second thing is that we, the people who live in this day and age are a disgrace to our freedom fighters of the past. I don't just mean this for India, but for everywhere in the world where the fight for freedom has been a price selflessly paid by people just like you and I. Rang De Basanti is the story of seven friends, one of whom is a British national who comes to India to shoot a documentary based on the accounts of her grandfather who was a first hand witness to the Legend of Bhagat Singh and his friends. When she reaches India, she is shocked by the way the youth of today seems to have little or no understanding of their very recent past and how Westernised they had all become. She meets six friends, five boys and one girl of which she quickly becomes their 7th. She recruits them to star in her documentary and with this, she unites them all and makes them become aware of what is going on in their surroundings. But maybe her inspiration goes a little too far and by the end of the film, you just have to wonder if she blames herself for what happens and if so how she would live with herself. The element I liked the most about the film, was how in the end, this British girl's life is forever changed as she finds herself the 21st century updated version of the troubled person her grandfather was on those very pages she was inspired by, and those very pages that would haunt her forever.