what do you guys think about rang de basanti. i think it is the best indian movie i have seen far....

i missed waching it yesterday night due to the change in venue (could not fine a new venue since i was bit late and no notice was posted around). but heard movie is very good.

sucked big time. Same old story
no drama no passion. Pure crap.

i keep hearing RANG DE BASANTE all the time. i get emails from friends in Nepal , india with pictures and jokes of RANG de BASANTE..

i am in usa right now and honestly FED UP with this nonsesnse. i havent seen the movie, and i dont feel like seeing it either. Hindi movies arent really my thing. im more into american movies, hiphop and the rap scene. just seeing or hearing the words Rang De Basante , makes my blood boil.

does anyone else feel irritated by hearing these words "Ranga De Basantti " ?
i certainly do.

aint got any time and money to spend on that movie... hiazzzzzzzzzzzz

Lata boy, you seem to sound Lata nai. Well Rang De Basanti is an eye opener. You should see it if you haven't . It is meant for people like you who want to be escapists by listenting to rap music and watching american movies :) I dont mean it is wrong being what you are.

But if you get a chance watch this movie. You will definitely feel some guilt in leaving your country.

I watched it and it was a great movie. Good songs!!!

rang de basanti ---
yea, the name is really kinda tedious + sounds like an tipical old moive.
but, i agree with chameli02.

that movie is a something. its prolly the best hindi moive, i hav seen so far.
i think, its better than: "dil chatah hai" which is amir khan's movie too.

divdude,

well..I am fresh off the boat...just tell me a few good movies which are full of passion, would love to watch em... I believe "rang de..." is one of the better patriotic movies in bollywood history, fine direction and gripping climax, please correct me.

awaiting your reply,

John,

i am tired of peoplel exaggerating about 'rang de basanti. Well, people have different choices and i might have a wrong one. But, i dont see anything in it that makes it a good movie. When people say it is a good movie i think they are trying to act modest (and patriotic). But, does killing an individual on ur stupid judgement make u patriotric? besides the movie was unnecessarily tilted towards Amir Khan . It seemd like Amir Khan telling ," well i am the real star here...so noone but me matters."
anyways i found the whole movie a piece of crap.

The movie has a wrong message.

i just dont like the name "Rang De basante "

the movie might be great however im not sure. just the name is Stupid. dump.

Rang de Basanti!
this is one of the best ever movie in bollywood until now which comes into the rank of Sholay, hum aapke hai kaun etc. the concept of the movie is wonderful ....its gives the knowledge and force the youngsters like us to really think about ones country. Movie is really Great!

i wathced this movie but i did not enjoye it, few of the scenes were good, but the overall movie is not as that good as i heard, this movie is only for indian, not for other.

Hey leo......... don think so
The movie is very good
idea ta jalle pani lina sakchha not only by indians u know.
The movie is extremely good

rang de basanti is an euphemism for indian patriotism....it has a profound meaning.

Have you guys seen Nepali movie "ranga deu parbati"

I haven't had the good fortune of watching the movie yet, but after listening to the good buzz generated by it definately plan to. Even heard someone say that the movie was about friends having good times in college with the political connotations on sidelines. But, there was a good article by Kanak Mani Dixit on Nepalitimes a couple of weeks ago about the movie, which I tend to agrre with. I am pasting the article with this post.


Why not to kill a minister
Bollywood’s Rang de Basanti is revolutionary chic and dangerous

From Issue #287 (24 February 06 - 02 March 06)

The run of anti-Pakistan films out of Bollywood peaked a few years ago with productions like the infamous Gadar, which seem like a bad memory today–like Kargil.

As the Hindi film market expands and ropes in the upper as well as expatriate classes, more complex themes are being addressed. The release last month of Rang de Basanti starring Aamir Khan confirms this trend and it challenges the introverted, nihilistic worldview of the English-speaking college youth of India/Southasia.

The story is about a fun-loving band of Delhi University students whose members revel in drinking beer and exchanging smart one-liners. Their attitude towards politicians and public service drips with self-serving cynicism, until a rookie filmmaker from London comes by and ropes them into acting in an amateur production about martyred fighters of the Indian freedom struggle. So far so good and the larger portion of the film by Rakyesh Omprakash Mehra is devoted to the self-discovery of these spoilt brats.

The film draws a parallel–in sepia and Technicolor–between the militancy of Bhagat Singh and his hardy band against the British colonials back in the 1920s and the Delhi youngsters becoming conscious of their societal responsibilities. But then the comparison is taken literally too far and that is where Rang de Basanti turns dangerous because of its immaturity and illogic.

Bhagat Singh went about assassinating colonial administrators in a freedom struggle and Mehra astonishes by having his modern-day protagonists stalk and murder a minister guilty of corruption in a military deal. The kids then hole up in the studios of All India Radio and are picked off one by one by commandos, which again projects an image of a police state at the Indian centre that seems ingenuous and out-of-whack.

This departure cannot be defended as being merely a presentation of Bollywood fantasy because while the standard masala film has no pretensions, this one arrogates for itself the high moral ground from which it looks down on the Indian landscape with distaste. It proposes to the gullible, privileged youth this route of murder and mayhem as a means of becoming more ‘connected’ to their political and social surroundings. This is a far cry from the students of Delhi University three decades ago who became politicised and joined the Naxalite movement in the villages. What Rang de Basanti proposes is a Delhi-based act of terror by the elite against the elite, a Coca Cola revolution whose hero, incidentally, is Coke’s commercial front man in real life.

But what a horrific example to provide to audiences all over—that it is okay to contemplate murder of politicians on the road to transparency and accountability. There is a childlike earnestness in the script that can only come from the filmmaker’s own distance from the reality of ground-up politics.

This is the rarefied urban attitude that finds Bihar’s Laloo Prasad Yadav a subject of continuous ridicule. After finding itself on the deep and sticky end, the script does try to wriggle out of the situation by suggesting that idealistic youth join the Indian Administrative Service or the police force but then it has the actors pull the trigger.

The core of the film’s thesis lies in a false juxtaposition. It turns history and political science on its head as it forces a parallel between fighting the colonial state and fighting the democratic nation state–if it is patriotic to assassinate the colonial administrator so is it patriotic to murder a modern-day politician who is on the take. Had the protagonists sought to find non-violent ways to humble the politician, this film would probably have come out ethically sound but director Mehra had a need to see the historical analogy drawn to its dastardly end. If Bhagat Singh’s cabal shot the gora sahib, Aamir Khan and his band perforce has to finish off the crooked minister.

The plot has taken a naive yet dangerous shortcut and the fact that this is a Bombay blockbuster adds to the potential damage. Simply put, Mehra and his cohort were so intellectually lazy they did not see the difference between a fight for independence and the need to have accountability and probity in present-day governance.

Rang de Basanti is revolutionary chic from Bombay. It is anti-humanist, anti-Gandhian and in promoting violence it provides an answer that is more gruesome than the problem identified. The only thing left is to hope that the young adults who watch Rang de Basanti in cinema halls or on the small screen will take it as the standard Bollywood fantasy.

OI torilaure haru...tyo chalchita ko naam ta " Au Na Chito Rang Lagauna Na Suntali" Hunu parchha....

Rang De Basanti,

I happened to watch it yesterday and enjoyed watching it. However, I agree with the article by Kanak mani Dixit regarding the "Message" of the film - which seem to be quite misguiding the youth, if one takes it literally. I guess the killing of the corupt minister is a symbolic representation to destroy the corrupt system - after all cinema is an abstract art. A very meaningful movie and worth watching...

Nice movie. Amazed by the Amir Khan's acting skill too. Hes very flexible actor. I like all his movies like Lagan, Mangal Pandey, Dil chata hai, Earth...