Exhilarating, Electrifying, Lamentable, Awakening...Rang De Basanti

Rating: 10/10 (19 March 2006)

Words fall short when the time comes to parlay my emotional state in order to describe the film. What starts as a breath of youthful exuberance, matures into an impassioned flame of truth only to be snubbed when the flame blazes in all it's glory. This is a kind of cinema that shakes a person to its core.
We begin with a look to India at the time of The Raj, and are introduced to an English jail officer guarding the Freedom Fighters of Hind. Form there beings the tale of Sue in modern times, who is wanting to make a documentary about the Freedom Fighters of Hind and her Grandfather the jailer in charge of the Freedom Fighters. Sue goes to India to translate her Grandfather's personal diary and interaction with the Freedom Fighters into a documentary. She finds the actors to play the respective Freedom Fighter, right under her nose, in the group of people whom Sue befriends while living at a University in Delhi where Sue had been invited to stay.
Events unfold and the lines between the story of the historical documentary and real life being to blur. What remains in the end is a sight to be beheld. This is a tale to the fight to death, so that the truth and justice can be upheld. "Inqilaab Zindahabaad! Long Live Revolution."....Mohe Mohe Tu Rang De Basanti.