However, even the act of being ‘apolitical’ is a political one. He became the face of a movement that he didn’t live to see, and didn’t set out to become.

Rang De Basanti is a coming-of-age film of a bunch of seemingly carefree, and privileged (except perhaps Aslam) men and women in their 20s.

Watching blows and lathis being rained on the peaceful candlelight vigil holders in Rang De Basanti, and the black commandos shooting at the unarmed college students at the radio station in the climax of the film felt chillingly familiar. They flirt, have romances, and dream of their future. His styling, make up everything was subconsciously targeted at George Fernandes. While it had a great impace on the society, the media dubbed it as 'the movie that became a moment'. Drawing the characters from his close friends and a part of it (happy-go-lucky and escapist) from himself, he thus gave a life to the lead roles. However, Rang De Basanti humanises him in a rare way – at no point are we shown that Lakshman lets go of all his regressive beliefs. But at no point does the film attempt to show the protagonists as more than who they are – a group of college students. And the shots where people from different cities talk about the issues in the nation? One aspect of Rang De Basanti worth critiquing is that it is somewhat premised in white gaze – it all begins with a white woman coming to India, wanting to make a film on Indian revolutionaries, and at some points, lecturing the Indian characters on their own country. Becoming an adult for me has been inextricable from the political values and ideologies I have come to stand with, and they seem to have diverged further and further from those of my loved ones as time passed. He wrote in his book ‘Rang De Basanti: The Shooting Script’ about how this was not just a regular story but a ‘belief that was converted to a screenplay’. Growing up, I remember watching Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra’s Rang De Basanti with my family when it came on TV. Another important thing that most of us don’t know is the fact that the dialogues are so relatable even in today’s era is only because of Kamlesh Pandey, Rensil D’Siliva; both of whom continuously wrote and re-wrote the dialogues to make it more realistic and gritty. 'Rang De Basanti' became the epitome of modern patriotism for the youth which was trying to maintain a balance between globalization and westernization. Rang De Basanti is a coming-of-age film of a bunch of seemingly carefree, and privileged (except perhaps Aslam) men and women in their 20s. We laughed as the six college friends – played by Aamir Khan, Soha Ali Khan, Kunal Kapoor, Atul Kulkarni, Sharman Joshi, and Siddharth Narayan – and Alice Patten, who played the British woman Sue Mckinley, goofed around. Re-watching Rang De Basanti felt like déjà vu – not because of the nostalgia it brought on, but because this 14-year-old film is so reflective of recent times. While there were two parallel stories running; one in 1920 and the other one in 2005; each of them ended up having its own impact and its own victory.

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