Rang De Bsanti Film Analysis

Film making is an art form. “Film, also called a movie, motion picture, theatrical film, or photoplay, is a series of still images that when shown on a screen create an illusion of motion images” (Wikipedia). According to Oxford Dictionary a film is, “A story or event recorded by a camera as a set of moving images and shown in a cinema or on television.” The way the things or the plot is perceived and the way the dialogues are written and delivered all lend an authority to films being an art from. This research paper aims to unfold the artistic technique used by Rakesh Om Prakash Mehra while directing his well celebrated youth film Rang de Basanti. This movie released in the year 2006 on the republic day of India that is 26th January and it was the biggest blockbuster not only of that particular year but the movie also broke previous box office collection records. The film is youth oriented and this could probably be the reason for the enormous success the film achieved. But is only being a youth film the sole reason for this film to be a …show more content…
The story is a beautiful blend of two different stories portraying different characters in different time frames. One story is of modern Delhi youth who are totally into their tension free lives and are joined by a British girl, the other story is of India’s revolutionaries and their struggle for independence. The movie has, as its protagonist, a British girl named Sue Mckenley who comes to India with her grandfather’s diary in which he has jotted down the atrocities done by the colonizer and the subsequent reactions against the British rulers. Sue wants to make a documentary on the events written on her grandfather’s diary but nobody in England was interested in the story of India so she packs her bag and comes to India to shoot her film. Sue has a friend Sonia in Delhi University who assures her to help her in making her dream