![]() 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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