Rang De Basanti (2006)

Popularity:

Down 42% in popularity this week. See why on IMDbPro.

Director:

Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra

Writers:

Kamlesh Pandey (story)
Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra (screenplay)
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Release Date:

29 June 2006 (Germany)

Genre:

Comedy | Drama | History | Romance

Tagline:

A Generation Awakens.

Plot:

The story of six young Indians who assist an English Woman to film a documentary on the extremist freedom fighters from their past, and the events that lead them to relive the long forgotten saga of freedom.

Plot Keywords:

Freedom | India | Friend | Student | Delhi University

Awards:

Nominated for BAFTA Film Award. Another 17 wins & 19 nominations

Cast

Aamir Khan	...	Daljeet 'DJ' / Chandrashekhar Azad
Siddharth	...	Karan R. Singhania / Bhagat Singh
Sharman Joshi	...	Sukhi / Rajguru
Kunal Kapoor	...	Aslam / Ashfaqullah Khan
Atul Kulkarni	...	Laxman Pandey / Ramprasad Bismil
Alice Patten	...	Sue
Soha Ali Khan	...	Sonia / Durga Vohra (as Soha Ali Khan Pataudi)
Steven Mackintosh	...	Mr. McKinley
Madhavan	...	Flight Lt. Ajay Rathod (as R. Madhavan)
Waheeda Rehman	...	Mrs. Rathod
Anupam Kher	...	Rajnath Singhania
Kiron Kher	...	Mitro / DJ's Mother
Om Puri	...	Amanullah Khan / Aslam's Father
Lekh Tandon	...	DJ's Grandfather
Cyrus Sahukar	...	Rahul
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Mohan Agashe	...	Defence Minister Shashtri
Mukesh Chhabra	...	Manmath nath
Pravishi Das	...	Journalist
Chandan Roy Sanyal	...	Batukeshwar Dutt
Manmeet Singh	...	Taxi driver at the airport

Directed by
Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra		(as Rakesh Omprakash Mehra)

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Renzil D'Silva		screenplay
Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra		screenplay (as Rakesh Om Prakash Mehra)
Kamlesh Pandey		story

Produced by
Adam Bohling	....	executive producer
Guruprasad M.	....	line producer
Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra	....	producer (as Rakeysh O. Mehra)
Shyam P.S.	....	executive producer
Sunil Panda	....	line producer (as Devraj Panda)
David Reid	....	producer
Ronnie Screwvala	....	producer

Original Music by
A.R. Rahman

Cinematography by
Binod Pradhan

Film Editing by
P.S. Bharathi

Casting by
Elaine Grainger

Production Design by
Samir Chanda

Art Direction by
Samir Chanda
Chetan Pathak

Costume Design by
Lovleen Bains
Arjun Bhasin

Makeup Department
Avan Contractor	....	hair stylist
Vikram Gaikwad	....	makeup artist
Fae Hammond	....	makeup artist
Serina Tixeira	....	makeup designer

Production Management
Sachin Agarwal	....	location production manager
Gaurav Dhingra	....	production manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Akhil Bali	....	assistant director
Paran Bawa	....	third assistant director
Lakshmipriya Devi	....	first assistant director
Joe Geary	....	first assistant director
Nitin Gupta	....	third assistant director
Neha Kaul	....	third assistant director
Arjun Mathur	....	second assistant director
Jay Oza	....	trainee assistant director
Nidhi Padda	....	assistant director
Sunil Pandey	....	first assistant director
Archit Patel	....	trainee assistant director
Shwetabh C. Varma	....	second assistant director
Mick Ward	....	first assistant director

Sound Department
Tarun Bhandari	....	dialogue editor
Vikram Biswas	....	sound effects editor
Baylon Fonseca	....	foley editor
Baylon Fonseca	....	sound effects editor
Baylon Fonseca	....	supervising sound effects editor
Prakash Gupta	....	pre-mix
Nakul Kamte	....	sound designer
Nakul Kamte	....	sound mixer
Vijay Kumar	....	foley artist
Sreejesh	....	assistant sound re-recording mixer

Visual Effects by
Ritesh Aggarwal	....	digital compositor
Husseini Barodawalla	....	digital effects artist
Sherry Bharda	....	creative director
Brynley Cadman	....	visual effects supervisor
Vinay Singh Chuphal	....	Flame artist
Prakash D'Cunha	....	digital effects artist
Deepal Dass	....	compositor
Rang De Basanti	....	visual effects artist
Sanjay Francis	....	digital effects artist
Vee Jay	....	visual effects (as Vasanthan)
Pankaj Khandpur	....	creative director
Yateen Mahambrey	....	compositor
P. Mohan	....	visual effects artist
Sandesh Pai	....	digital effects artist
Ashish Pradhan	....	visual effects artist
Rohit Prasad	....	visual effects
Rajiv Raghunathan	....	senior digital intermediate producer
Satish Ratakonda	....	flame artist
Shaikh Rizwan	....	digital compositor
Bharat Sachdev	....	digital effects artist
Sarika Salian	....	senior compositor
Piku Shahani	....	visual effects coordinator
Manish Sharma	....	visual effects artist
Chandrakant Shenoy	....	digital matte painter
Aakash Shivdasani	....	visual effects
Prasad Sutar	....	visual effects supervisor
Shailendra Swarnkar	....	digital compositor
Jayadev Tiruveaipati	....	assistant digital intermediate colorist
Merchant Zahid	....	visual effects artist

Camera and Electrical Department
Srinivas Chandran	....	additional focus puller
Amol Gole	....	still photographer
Rajiv Jain	....	additional cinematographer
Prashant Pednekar	....	first assistant camera
Promod Pradhan	....	second unit cameraman
Sunita Radia	....	associate cinematographer
Subhransu	....	assistant camera
Ritu Wadhwa	....	clap girl

Casting Department
Mukesh Chhabra	....	casting assistant
Hemant Gopal	....	casting assistant

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Urmilla Lal Motwani	....	assistant costume designer

Editorial Department
Ken Metzker	....	digital intermediate colorist
Varma Raghunath	....	Senior Conformist
S.N.V. Ramana	....	Senior Conformist

Music Department
Mohammad Aslam	....	playback singer
Blaze	....	playback singer
Mohit Chauhan	....	playback singer
T.R. Krishna Chetan	....	music programmer
K.S. Chitra	....	playback singer
Naresh Iyer	....	playback singer
Prasoon Joshi	....	lyricist
Harshdeep Kaur	....	playback singer (as Harshdeep)
Aamir Khan	....	playback singer
Madhushree	....	playback singer
Lata Mangeshkar	....	playback singer
Daler Mehndi	....	playback singer
Srinivas Murthy	....	conductor: orchestra
A.R. Rahman	....	playback singer
K.J. Singh	....	song mix engineer
K.J. Singh	....	song recording engineer
H. Sridhar	....	song mix engineer
H. Sridhar	....	song recording engineer

Other crew
Ganesh Acharya	....	choreographer
Devanshu Asthana	....	production controller
Prakash Bharadwaj	....	dialogue coach
Shyamali Dey	....	assistant to director
Manoj Jadhav	....	production assistant
Alnoor Merchant	....	website design
Neerja Narayanan	....	production coordinator
Pranati Oza	....	production coordinator
Prashant Pednekar	....	follow focus
Soma Roy	....	script supervisor
Jack Warender	....	set runner
Siddharth Gupta	....	production assistant (uncredited)

Thanks
Lata Mangeshkar	....	special thanks

Production Companies

• ROMP
• UTV Motion Pictures

Distributors

• Rapid Eye Movies (2006) (Germany) (DVD)

Special Effects

• Tata Elxsi Visual Computing Lab

Other Companies

• Gaurav Digital  sound re-recording
• Movie Talkies  internet partner
• Seek Red  publicity creatives
• Sony Music  soundtrack released by

Also Known As:

"Colour It Yellow" - Europe (English title) (alternative title), International (alternative title), International (English title) (alternative title), UK (alternative title), USA (alternative title)
"Paint it Saffron" - USA (literal English title)

Runtime:

157 min

Country:

India

Language:

Hindi | Punjabi | English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

DTS | Dolby Digital EX

Certification:

Australia:M | Germany:16 | India:UA | Malaysia:U | UK:15 (DVD rating) | UK:12A (original rating) | USA:Not Rated

Filming Locations:

Nahargarh Fort, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India

Company:

ROMP

Trivia:

Arjun Rampal was signed to do the film, but was irritated with director, Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra's indecisiveness about what he wanted to do with the characters and the script. He called him "very confused" and "unprofessional" and dropped out. Arjun Rampal also stated his regret in even agreeing to do the film in that he lost a lot of good work in the three months he spent committed to it.

Goofs:

Continuity: In the scene where Sue says 'Undher say awaaz aye gee' and the Sukhi burps, Karan throws his cigarette on the floor and steps on it (you hear him do it). Then in the very next shot he does it all over again and the 'under say awaaz' scene is still going on.

Quotes:

DJ:[thinking Sue doesn't speak hindi] Arre vadi soni hai yaar!
[Turning to Sue]
DJ:I mean it's very cold yaar!.

Movie Connections:

Spoofed in Partner (2007)

Soundtrack:

Tu Bin Bataye

A must see for young India

The movie released today after a lot of hype and controversies. I went to see it expecting it to be a little different from the standard escapist fantasies churned out by the Indian film industry (of which I am not a fan). What I got was something so very different from what I had envisioned. The humor,the clichés, the nonchalance of youth, the culture, religion,politics... are all there and the best part is that it works. The storyline though is stretched a bit (we Indians need that) but the message is loud and clear. Throughout the movie a great sense of humor is maintained.The performances are all excellent.

I have given this movie a rating of 10 solely on the basis of the originality of the story. While this movie is definitely not Kurasawa or Satyajit Ray, it is one of the few movies from India which I feel will appeal to both the mainstream and discerning audiences. A movie not to be missed.