Rang De Basanti (2006-movie) :Bollywood Hindi Film

Rang De Basanti Film Star Cast, Song Trailer Details :

Rang De Basanti is a 2006 Bollywood drama film writer,producer and directer by Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra, and co-written by Rensil D’Silva .The literal meaning of the title can be translated as “Paint me with the colours of spring”. It features an ensemble cast comprising Aamir Khan, Siddharth Narayan, Soha Ali Khan, Kunal Kapoor, R. Madhavan, Sharman Joshi, Atul Kulkarni and British actress Alice Patten in the lead roles. Made on a budget.

Rang De Basanti  Full Movie And Trailer:

Directer : Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra
Producer : Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra,Ronnie Screwvala,P. S. Bharathi
Writer : Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra,Kamlesh Pandey,Rensil D’Silva
Story : Kamlesh Pandey
Starring : Aamir Khan,Siddharth Narayan,Atul Kulkarni,Kunal Kapoor,Sharman Joshi,Alice Patten,Soha Ali Khan,R. Madhavan,Waheeda Rehman
Music : A.R. Rahman
Cinematography : Binod Pradhan
Edited : P. S. Bharathi
Production company : Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra Pictures
Distributed : UTV Motion Pictures
Release date : 26 January 2006
Running time : 157 minutes
Country : India
Language : Hindi,Punjabi

Production:

Development:

• Rakeysh Mehra took seven years to research and develop the story, including three to write the script. While some raised doubts about his morale following the failure of his last film, Aks, at the box office, he retorted by saying that it would not affect him at all. He added that not only did his storytelling technique improve, but past mistakes had helped him improve his filmmaking abilities.

• Rakeysh said the following in a scriptwriter’s conference conducted by the Film Writers Association in the year 2008, “I was making a documentary called Mamooli Ram, on Amul, the milk revolution with Kamalesh Pandey. We were sitting in a small hotel room in Nanded, drinking. We started singing songs, and we both realised we liked similar songs. And so Rang De Basanti was born. He was angry with the system, I was helpless with the system. We wanted to do so much. But we really can’t do anything and it was born out of anger. He wrote a story called Ahuti, meaning sacrifice. Ahuti was about the armed revolution about India, between the years 1919 and 1931. It started with Ashfaqullah Khan, Ramprasad Bismil, Bhagat Singh, Rajguru, went on to Chandrashekhar Azad and so on. We had this amazing screenplay called Ahuti, which we had also termed as The Young Guns of India, which started with a train robbery, Azad on a horse and so on. I said, “let’s do The Young Guns of India”.
• We were going to go on the floor, and suddenly there were a couple of film on Bhagat Singh made. But they came and went. Not because they were good or bad films, not because they were written badly or not written so bad. I’m not being judgmental about them. And this is very important: because they did not reflect the sentiment of today’s time. Nobody in the audience could identify with something which was past. It wasn’t that there wasn’t idea of patriotism in us, but it was sleeping somewhere. And you had to kind of relate to it in today’s world. So a couple of bottles of vodka again, and three days later, with couple of vodkas down, Kamlesh ji comes up with ‘You know what, I think I’ve cracked it’.

Film Casting:

• Aamir Khan agreed to act in Rang De Basanti immediately after reading Mehra’s script. Mehra described his character as a simple man with a strong sense of integrity and dignity. Khan, who would turn 40 during the shoot, lost about 10 kilograms (22 lb) with a strict diet and exercise regime to more convincingly depict a man in his late twenties. Atul Kulkarni and Kunal Kapoor were publicly attached to the film by the time it was officially announced; Kapoor had been the assistant director to Mehra during the filming of Aks and was already familiar with the material Mehra had been developing. Mehra gave Kulkarni biographies of Ram Prasad Bismil as preparation, including Bismil’s autobiography.Early rumours indicated that actors Arjun Rampal and Arjan Bajwa would be amongst the male leads, but these roles ultimately were filled by Sharman Joshi, Siddharth Narayan and Madhavan.

Film Shooting:

• The film, which was shot in New Delhi, Mumbai, Rajasthan and Punjab, was officially launched at a hotel on 1 February 2005.When shooting began, Mehra made an announcement to his crew saying that they would enjoy their holiday only in July.

• Instead of film shooting at the actual locations from the script, other locations were selected for picturisation. One such scene is where Soha Ali Khan is filmed at the India Habitat Center that masquerades as the University of Delhi. On similar lines, New Delhi’s Modern School at Barakhamba Road served as the location for all the scenes pertinent to All India Radio station, which is shown to be stormed by the youngsters in the film. The Delhi Tourism department was happy to encourage filming in the city if it helped promote tourism, though any filming near India Gate was prohibited due to the ensuing bureaucratic paperwork. Similar issues with bureaucracy were faced by Mehra while filming at the Jaipur Fort. To use a historical location for filming, they had to seek permissions of seven officials ranging from the local police to the Archaeological Survey of India office. Nahargarh Fort, which oversees the city of Jaipur, was another such historical location where one of the songs was filmed. Besides these locations, the filming was also done at Amritsar’s Harmandir Sahib Gurudwara. For Aamir Khan, a Muslim, it was for the first time that he was playing a North Indian Punjabi character and it took him some time to get the right dialect and diction.

Release:

• Rang De Basanti received its world premiere on 26 January 2006, with high expectations that it would be a success with western audiences, though it also faced ire from several organisations because of certain controversial scenes. The film contained scenes of a MiG-21, a controversial aircraft in the Indian Air Force, which has a long history of fatal accidents in India.

Rang De Basanti Movie Songs:

• Song Name – Rang De Basanti
• Movie – Rang De Basanti
• Singer – Daler Mehndi & Chitra
• Composer – A.R. Rahman
• Lyricists – Prasoon Joshi

• Song Name – Luka Chuppi
• Movie – Rang De Basanti
• Singer – A.R. Rahman & Lata Mangeshkar
• Composer – A.R. Rahman
• Lyricists – Prasoon Joshi & Nacim

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