Rang De Basanti | Has It Aged Well? Ep. 03 | Ft.

This week on ‘Has It Aged Well?’ Abbas & Urjita are joined by author, and creative director (non-fiction) at IVM Podcasts, Meghnad S. to revisit the revolutionary 2006 film ‘Rang De Basanti’. The trio discusses how the film influenced Meghnad to move to Delhi, how ‘RDB’ was perhaps the best example of sepia toned flashbacks, the character arc of Atul Kulkarni’s fundamentalist character, how authority figures in the movie match up to authority figures in real life, the portrayal of the media, AR Rahman’s tremendous score, and given the political events of the last decade, should this film have been called “Foreshadow De Basanti”?
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[@aditiladdha9247]

So glad Urjita mentioned the Sid being in love w Soha ali character, very subtly portrayed but significant angle in the entire movie

[@dapshere]

11:56 Nope. Bhagat Singh didn't feel like he wasted time watching Uncle Tom's cabin. It was a silent movie on slavery and Bhagat Singh wanted to show it to his friends to fuel them up, to fight against the British. In fact in the deleted scene you talk about, he uses the money that Chandrashekhar Azad gives him for food, to go watch that movie. Also Azad doesn't say "It's ok to take a break". He in fact runs after Bhagat to stop him from buying the tickets. Also also, nobody was 'having fun' while watching it. Bhagat Singh was enraged, while Azad was moved to tears.

[@sourendhoommail]

Correct

[@rahulp7313]

Trivia :- RDB climax was written by Aamir khan.. Earlier climax was all 5 character shot at 5 different places when they run but Rakesh mehra narrated script to aamir.. Aamir told rakesh that throughout the movie parallel world you kept all your come tougher to fight against bad guys then why they are running separately and died at different location then aamir gives this Radio station climax to mehra which he written for other movie in 90s which couldn't make that time.. Then mehra rewrite climax.

[@AkashGupta-SKY]

They forget that Aamir & Sid character was replica of Chandra Shekhar Azad and Bhagat Singh. So these two are the most revolutionary person from freedom struggle for we people of India. That's why they didn't show them died just freezed laughing.

[@hspraj]

39.00 Pranab Mukherjee, the defense minister, stated that his job is to protect the country, not to censor films after watching the movie.

[@IdliAmin_TheLastKingofSambar]

So Siddharth was already a big star in the South when he did _Rang De Basanti,_ and I thought he was fantastic in the film, and I know Aamir publicly praised him and his performance a lot. Yet, if I’m not mistaken, he’s only done one or two Hindi films since, and has continued to mainly do Tamil and Telugu films. Why is that? Did he have trouble getting more roles, or did he just not want to do more Hindi films? It’s been a while since I’ve seen the movie, plus Hindi is my third language (my first language is American English, and my mother tongue is Telugu), but I don’t remember thinking his Hindi was weak or too Tamil-accented or anything, plus these days, I’m not even sure that matters as much, given the rise of South films and actors, and more pan-Indian content-see Vijay Sethupathi, for example.

[@personaldata1270]

4 days me 4 episodes dekh liye. It's a trip down the movie memory lane.

[@sayandeysarkar3354]

A.R.Rahman put life into the movie with songs..and Atul kulkarni's transformation..when he realises how he was brainwashed by his ideology party in wrong way,when the minister leaves from the spot where innocent people were being beates for rightful protest against govt

[@B1it3krieg]

1:00:15 I believe it was a reference to the very first dialogue of the movie. "then I met a third kind."

[@amodhsaxena6103]

Principal was voiced by Rakesh Mehra..

[@amirbashir1248]

Good one.....the movie still rocks

[@shrikantshingate2283]

great revisit...one note - last few days audio is low all ivm podcast youtube videos.

[@imfaketruly7091]

Yes I felt the same.

[@anjalibajpai5056]

Right

[@debolina19]

I just found this podcast and i love your discussions ❤️

[@B1it3krieg]

21:33 Nahargarh fort - Jaipur is now a very well protected monument.

[@ngneerin]

Nahargarh fort has water also there. Just that not clean enough to dive into it. The water was replaced to shoot the movie

[@siddheshadhatrao5866]

Urjita…when and how it was shown or understood that Sid was in love with Soha and everyone in the group knew about it..bcz this was pointed out to me by my aatya after we watched it long back in theatre. I was in 8th standard and I never caught it..and now in this podcast you bringing it up! Mahn goosebumps…!

[@3322siddhartha]

8th standard may be few yrs early but it is clearly shown that he was in love with Soha.

[@naikvinit]

Good episode. You touched upon the music, but you need to mention the name of AR Rehman and Prasoon Joshi. These two are also the heroes of the film.

[@suprio_gonefishing]

i love Urjita's wicked sense of humour

[@AkashGupta-SKY]

JJWS, Sarfarosh, Rang De Basanti, Dil Chahta Hai. The Aamir khan supremacy.

[@videostjs]

It's funny that the podcast starts with an ad

[@dhruvbajaj5593]

❤❤ this series

[@adityadaschoudhury9231]

John Abraham Rang De Basanti googling threw up him comparing Taxi No 9211 screenplay with RDB's.

[@sourendhoommail]

Another good movie though.

[@zlatandeol1088]

I have a theory that why they don't show Aamir and Siddharth dying because they were the voice of the people(they spoke on the radio show ) and it shouldn't die

[@nickraghuvanshi]

That's not John Abraham. Have you gone crazy. Try to remember how John looked in 2005. Batla house John went back in time to get that picture clicked it seems.

[@Hafiz_G_Lumber_1]

John Abraham wanted the lead role of Karan Jay Veer Singh Rathore, but Aamir khan was already signed.

[@user-ui9cd3uv2s]

Ayeeeee NL se meghnadddd

[@amirbashir1248]

Megh was good...has he left IVM?

[@nietin5858]

read All My Sons

[@minerva4539]

What about Pathan releasing today? That also has lots of anti establishment themes.

[@nikhilkrishnakumar]

Abbas could've been a DOOMposter

[@IdliAmin_TheLastKingofSambar]

As a brown American-authentic _desi_ genetic material, _ghatiya_ U.S. manufacturing-I have to ask: if it’s fine to make fun of the heavy accents westerners have when trying to speak Hindi, is it cool to make fun of the heavy accents Indians have when speaking English? 😈😉

[@jitkr1489]

liks it isn't made fun of.. GTFO bud!!

[@ri-xj1vs]

Hey, Canadian here, Indian ethnicity and Canadian raised. No, it's not. I mean, Americans should know about "reverse racism" myth, eh?

[@IdliAmin_TheLastKingofSambar]

@@ri-xj1vs Yeah, and to be clear, I don’t believe “reverse racism” exists as any kind of systemic, institutional thing (the fact that it’s called “reverse racism” pretty much gives that away, or else it would just be called “racism,” with no modifier required). I just think it’s a bit mean-spirited to make fun of someone-anyone-who’s genuinely trying to speak a language they’re unfamiliar with. I don’t remember what they said in this ep (presumably about Alice Patten), but I don’t think I actually cared that much; they are comedians, after all. But it did bug me a little when they made fun of Kalki’s accent on the _ZNMD_ episode, because while her mothertongue is French, she was born and raised in India, and has an obvious Indian accent when she speaks English. It’s just that she grew up speaking Tamil, and has learned Hindi on the fly. Yet it felt like they were making fun of her because they perceive her as a “Westerner.” But maybe they would have also made fun of a non-Hindi speaking “Indian Indian” (so to speak). It goes the other way, too, as Indians pick on other Indians for having “fake” Western accents when they go abroad (at least celebs, even though everyone does it), which also seems a little unfair, but that’s a different subject. I think I’ve lost the plot at this point. 😆

[@rahultiwari-dx8qo]

Urjita needs a show of her own

[@shahsilver]

So true yes she could host an separate with solo guests

[@vincentbrk]

True she lifts up most other podcasts.

[@Hafiz_G_Lumber_1]

She needs an onlyfan account

[@KIRANSHARMA-ce9lj]

Just stumbled about this channel.. i love movies and podcast .. so guess, utube algo works and this reached me.. I had watched rang de basanti when it released with my friends (who had watched it already and came with me for it again) I was in my early twenties and was raged when it ended.. , it changed how I feel about my own country.. which in my mid thirties i feel was just my 'punk' attitude.. i used to love my country in my teens and this movie changed that feeling.. i happened to watch this movie n recently and apart from the music everything else was blahhhhhhhhhhh .. i love my country now even more than I did earlier (not that I am getting emotional but from admin perspective after seeing the challenges in other countries) I found the cuts, cinematography, saturation and the story everything very youthful.. What was aspirational for me back then turned out to be very 'youth rebel' now .. Just a side note, we did go on student strike during my college days (in mumbai) to protest against fee hike, for 4 days, after few months of this movie release and I remember my family telling me that it is wrong, but we manage to get fees down by 45% , now in my maturity i feel nothing is a "lost cause" .. and thats my take away.. when thr character said - humara rassta galat tha but irada nahi.. Every movie evokes an emotion, in my recent watch it dint evoke rebel, it showed me thr r better ways to straightain things up.. which was my also problem with movie, they dint emphasize on this point enough.. sure, easter eggs abt gun being in dustbin for a movie lover matters who is matured, but in my 20s i dint catch that, hence the rage. PS: toning my principles a notch down, it dint age well for me, apart from music and here I am not just talking abt story. I dint like the glorification of 'reckless youth'. Sure, youth have the power to change things, but not having any barrier/conflict was off putting, and not showing at the end the much awaited validation that the characters seek kept me at the fence. After all youth does what it do, for external validation , so the motive was not clear. Certain scenes were fab, i associated with sukhi the most represesting a lost rebel who is doing things cause the cool kid said so and soha.. maddys character was very aspirational. Atul kulkarni top notch, his eyes gave it all.. that awkward and suppressed laugh while eating, saying sorry, monolugue, awakening, last scene .. was enoughbto show his depth and arc .. loved him the most (after music)