Silva, Mehra, Kamlesh Pandey, Prasoon Joshi.Ĭamera (color, widescreen), Binod Pradhan editor, P.S. However, across 160 minutes and with well-drawn characters, the transition seems natural enough.Ī UTV Motion Pictures release (in U.K.) and presentation of a Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra Pictures production. What starts out as a white-girl-goes-to-India yarn ends up as a full-bore Bollywood action-drama, with Sue long ago sidelined. But when Sonia’s fiancee, air force pilot Ajay (Southern Indian star Madhavan), dies in a crash caused by high-up corruption, the group rapidly becomes politicized, with fatal consequences. But after finally convincing them to join her project, the production is plagued by snafus and infighting.īiggest problem is that the kids can’t identify with their forebears’ do-or-die patriotism. In between all the fun and games, Sue starts literally to “see” the friends as Bhagat Singh and his associates. Leader of the gang, and the cockiest, is Daljeet (Aamir Khan, from “Lagaan”), known as “DJ.”
Through her local contact, Sonia (Soha Ali Khan, sister of well-known thesp Saif Ali Khan), Sue meets an array of students she tries to rope into her movie.
McKinley’s granddaughter, Sue (Alice Patten, daughter of Hong Kong’s final governor, Chris), finds her project for a movie based on his diaries has been canned, so she jets to Delhi to make her own low-budgeter about the revolutionaries, snappily entitled “The Young Guns of India.” One (sepia-tinted) is set in ’20s British India, during the uprising by Punjabi revolutionary Bhagat Singh the other (in color) in modern-day Delhi, among college students.Īfter a pretitles sequence in which a Brit officer, James McKinley (Steven McKintosh), is impressed by the bravery of a hanged revolutionary, film switches to London, 2002. Script runs two timelines side by side, finally joining them at the end. Later reels broach the issue of the West taking upon itself to police non-western revolutionary causes and automatically branding any combatants as “terrorists.”
“Rang de basanti” - an old anti-Brit revolutionary slogan, literally meaning “Paint It Yellow” - is concerned with pride in one’s own country rather than border tensions.įilm is surprisingly tough on contempo Indian values and corruption, with the young protags reckoning India is still a “shit hole” that’s failed to capitalize on its half-century of hard-won independence. The nationalism at the heart of many mainstream Hindi movies is different here from that found in Indo-Pak dramas.
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