Rang De Basanti is a bohemian movie, one that deals with an unexceptional story in an avant-garde way. As you watch, the monochrome of hackneyed patriotic fervor is split through an unforgiving prism into dazzling shades. It’s like attacking your enemy from behind. All the cliché and the mythology stays, yet the sensibilities are dealt with so well, you are in tearful admiration. The battle is won.
Sue (Alice Patten) is a British moviemaker, who comes to India to make a movie about the Chandrasekhar Azad, Bhagat Singh, Bismil, Ashfaq coterie. Her grandfather is the Englis....