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Ranked #55 of 100
Rang De Basanti
रंग दे बसंती · 2006
Delhi students playing freedom fighters in a documentary find the roles bleeding into a real fight with the state.
- Director
- Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra
- Year
- 2006
- Genre
- Drama · Political
- Cast
- Aamir Khan, Siddharth, Kunal Kapoor, Atul Kulkarni, R. Madhavan, Soha Ali Khan
Why it's at number 55
It put candlelight protest into the Indian civic vocabulary. A. R. Rahman's most propulsive score.
Delhi students playing freedom fighters in a documentary find the roles bleeding into a real fight with the state.
Rang De Basanti sits in the 2000s alongside Lagaan and Dil Chahta Hai — a decade this canon treats as formative.
The Bollywood 100The essentials
- Directed by Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra — also responsible for Bhaag Milkha Bhaag.
- Released in 2006, in the 2000s — see everything else from that decade.
- Filed under Drama, Political.
- Read more on Wikipedia, check the full crew on IMDb, or find a legal stream via JustWatch.
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