Songs of movie rang de basanti 320kbps
That was the era I wanted to re-capture in Rang De Basanti.” This was the era when escapism hadn’t seeped into cinema or real life. Ae mere watan, Mere desh ki dharti…We were looking at the idea of our country through a kite….Films like Mother India, Do Bigha Zameen, Naya Daur touched all of us. And the first priority was to bring money back into the family….As kids in Delhi on 15 August when we flew kites, we could hear India Gandhi speaking…On the other side there were the patriotic songs on the loudspeaker…. It didn’t work out because I was from a lower middle-class family. In college in Delhi I was predominantly a sportsman. In school I wanted to join the air force. He says, “It’s a collection of many circumstances. Then there was Aamir Khan's disastrous Mangal Pandey. There were 4-5 Bhagat Singh films that didn’t connect with the audience. Rang De Basanti came when patriotism was passé. In fact he was so over-age for the part that the director had to write in a dialogue explaining why his character DJ chooses to hang on to his campus days long after he has crossed his student days. Looking back at Rang De Basanti, I am struck by how effective the entire cast was, and how miscast Aamir Khan was as the college brat. When it released it became the audiences’ film.” So many people joined me on the journey that was Rang De Basanti. This time I had the luxury of living with my script for four years. You learn from your past mistakes and new experiences.
Since Aks, my storytelling technique had improved. But I didn’t consciously choose a subject that would be more accessible to audiences than my first film Aks. Rakeysh was confident of the impact his film would make on the audience. Looking back he says, “ Rang De Basanti is a younger film. I remember speaking to Rakeysh (now a dear afriend) after watching the film. As usual I underestimated the power of the Indian audience to absorb and assimilate unique cinematic experiences. But I also felt, wrongly, that it would be a box office disaster.
I knew I was watching a film that would create history. The same actors were also seen in contemporary times grappling with the grammar of socio-political corruption.Īfter watching the film, I was stunned by director Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra’s audacity and creative energy. In the past, Aamir Khan cast as Chandrashekar Azad, Tamil star Siddharth as Bhagat Singh, Atul Kulkarni as Ramprasad Bismil, Kunal Kapoor as Ashfaqullah Khan and Sharman Joshi as Rajguru. The story of Rang De Basanti is told in two time zones. The film unfolds through the eyes of a young British documentary maker Sue (Alice Patten) who comes to India to shoot a documentary on the Indian freedom struggle. The film adopted a unique format to tell the story of a freedom that we all have taken for granted. When Rang De Basanti released on 26 January Jan 26, 2006, I remember watching the film with a very fidgety, very confused audience reacting as we all to unfamiliar experiences, with embarrassment and heckling.