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A young London-based film-maker chances upon the diaries of her grandfather, who served in the British police force in India during the freedom struggle. Excited about these memoirs, she makes plans to shoot a film on the Indian revolutionaries mentioned in the diaries. She comes down to Delhi, and casts a group of five friends to play the pivotal roles of these revolutionaries. However, the five young stars are products of modern India and, at first, refuse to be part of the movie, as they don’t identify with these characters from the past. Being part of a generation of Indians that believes in consumerism, issues like patriotism and giving one’s life for one’s beliefs is the stuff text books are made off. They would rather party than be patriots. In the film both the 1930s British India and the India of today run parallel and intersect with each other at crucial points and as the film reaches its resolution, the line between past and present blurs. |
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Rang De Basanti (A Generation Awakens), is a story about the youth of India today.