The movie is for those who can read between the lines and also for those who cannot. Rakyesh Omprakash Mehra understands that the only way to explain the meaning of 'Rang De Basanti' to GeNext is to call it 'RDB'. Mehra knows the trick of the trade. Drawing parallels between past and present is easy but making a film on it is difficult. Mehra did it successfully. The credit also goes to the scriptwriter Kamlesh Pandey as such movie is not possible without an excellent and well thought script. The story starts with a young British woman Sue (Alice Patten) who comes to India to make a documentry on Indian revolutionaries-- Chandrashekhar Azad, Bhagat Singh, Ramprasad Bismil and Ashfaq Ullah Khan. She has an old friend in India, Sonia (Soha Ali Khan) who introduces her to DJ( Aamir Khan), Karan (Sidharth Narayan), Aslam( Kuanal Kapoor) and Sukhi( Sharman Joshi). In the couse of making the documentry a fundamentalist Laxman(Atul Kulkarni) also joins the group.They promise to help Sue in her project.The story moves around this group. It also shows transition in thier lives and thoughts after one of their friend Ft Lt Ajay (R Mahadevan) dies in a Mig 21 crash. Later, they realise that the crash was an outcome of a corrupt defence deal, in which faulty MIG parts were purchased by the Defence Ministry. The youngmen then try to fight the corrupt system.RDB has excellent music and A R Rehman has once again created magic with 'Khalbali' and 'Rang De Basanti.' Above all, it's a thought provoking movie. No one would have imagined that they will see Bhagat Singh in the song. The repeatation of word 'ziddi ..ziddi.. ziddi SSSSS' has the power to make you get up from your chairs and shout ' Inqualab Zindabad'.Running two stories parallel was like looking at the past through present's window. In the last one or two years many patriotic films were released. But this film opens your eyes and help you see how Chandrashekhar Azad, Bhagat Singh, Ashfaqullah Khan and Ramprasad Bismil are still relevant. You may go home with lingering image of R Madhavan who is standing in Jallianwala Bagh at the time of massacre. A bullet hits him and he says with a smile " Sale ne jacket kharab kar di."
