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Movie: Rang De Basanti
Directed by:  Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra
Produced by:  Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra, Ronnie Screwvala
Written by:  Kamlesh Pandey (story), Renzil D'Silva (screenplay), Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra (screenplay), Prasoon Joshi (dialogue)
Starring:  Aamir Khan, R. Madhavan, Sharman Joshi, Soha Ali Khan, Waheeda Rehman, Siddharth Narayan, Kunal Kapoor, Atul Kulkarni, Alice Patten
Music by:  A. R. Rahman, Prasoon Joshi (lyrics)
Cinematography: Binod Pradhan
Editing by:  P. S. Bharathi
Distributed by: UTV Motion Pictures
Release date:  26 January 2006
Budget: 25 crore (approximately US$5.5 million)

The soundtrack of Rang De Basanti, which was released by Sony BMG, featured music composed by A. R. Rahman and lyrics penned by Prasoon Joshi and Blaaze, an India-based rapper. From the film's announcement in April 2005, Rahman was slated to compose the music. In a press conference with pop singer Nelly Furtado, he said that she was to originally have featured on the soundtrack, although this was ultimately prevented from happening due to a change in producers and other factors. Aamir Khan, with his knowledge of Hindi and Urdu, worked with Rahman and Joshi for the film's soundtrack. In addition, Mehra and Rahman chose him to sing for one of the songs.

Joshi, one of the lyricists, was impressed with the director, Rakeysh Mehra, who was ready to adjust to his style of writing as well as his creativity. Confessing that the film's soundtrack was his favorite out of all his previous works, Joshi felt that it "was a wonderful experience getting to know the mindset of today’s youth and to pen down their feelings". Speaking about one of his songs, "Luka Chuppi", in which veteran Lata Mangeshkar sang with Rahman, Joshi said that it was developed while discussing with Rahman the scene about a mother losing her son. Joshi wrote the lyrics about the mother and son playing hide-and-seek with the sad reality of the son being hidden forever. He confessed to have been in tears while Mangeshkar was singing the song. The soundtrack won the Filmfare Best Music Director Award, and had two of its tracks, Khalbali and Luka Chuppi, considered for an Academy Award for Best Original Song nomination.

While discussing typical Bollywood soundtracks, Nilanjana Bhattacharjya, a professor of music at Colorado College noted that Rahman integrated traditional Punjabi cultural elements within his music for this soundtrack. Regionally defined elements such as a woman's prayer at the Sikh Gurudwara (Golden Temple) and the bhangra harvest dance are incorporated alongside more contemporary, global styles such as hard rock and hip hop to depict the cosmopolitan lifestyle of the youngsters in the film.

Academy Awards:
Longlisted, Academy Award for Best Original Song - A. R. Rahman for Lukka Chuppi
Longlisted, Academy Award for Best Original Song - A. R. Rahman for Khalbali

National Film Awards:
Won, Best Male Playback - Naresh Iyer for Rubaroo

Filmfare Awards:
Won, Best Music Direction - A. R. Rahman
Nominated, Best Lyrics - Prasoon Joshi for Rubaroo

IIFA Awards:
Won, Best Music Direction - A. R. Rahman
Nominated, Male Playback - A. R. Rahman for Rubaroo
Nominated, Male Playback - Naresh Iyer for Rubaroo
Nominated, Female Playback - Lata Mangeshkar for Lukka Chuppi
Nominated, Best Lyrics - Prasoon Joshi for Rubaroo

Zee Cine Awards:
Won, Best Music Direction - A. R. Rahman
Nominated, Best Lyrics - Prasoon Joshi for Paathsala
Nominated, Best Choreographer - Ganesh Acharya for Paathsala

Star Screen Awards:
Won, Star Screen Award for Best Background Music - A. R. Rahman
Nominated, Star Screen Award for Best Music Director - A. R. Rahman

The story is about a British documentary filmmaker who is determined to make a film on Indian freedom fighters based on diary entries by her grandfather, a former officer of the British Indian Army. Upon arriving in India, she asks a group of five young men to act in her film. They agree, but after they begin filming a friend of theirs is killed in a fighter aircraft crash, with government corruption appearing to be the root cause of the incident. This event radicalizes them from being carefree to passion-driven individuals who are determined to avenge his death.

The film's release faced stiff resistance from the Indian Defence Ministry and the Animal Welfare Board due to parts of the film that depicted the use of MiG-21 fighter aircraft and a banned Indian horse race respectively. The film was released globally on 26 January 2006 and subsequently was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the 2006 BAFTA Awards. Rang De Basanti also was chosen as India's official entry for the Golden Globe Awards and the Academy Awards in the Best Foreign Language Film category, though it did not ultimately yield a nomination for either award. A. R. Rahman's soundtrack, which earned positive reviews, had two of its tracks considered for the Academy Award nomination. The film was not only well-received by critics and audiences for its production values, but also had a noticeable influence on Indian society. In India, the film did well at many of the Bollywood awards ceremonies, including a win for Best Movie at the Filmfare Awards.

Rang De Basanti received the National Film Award for Best Popular Film Providing Wholesome Entertainment in addition to awards at a number of other ceremonies. It won several awards at the annual India-based Filmfare Awards including Best Movie, Best Director, Best Music Director, Critics Best Performance - Male (Aamir Khan), Best Editing (P. S. Bharathi), Best Cinematography and RD Burman Award for New Music (Naresh Iyer) categories. It also won the 2007 International Indian Film Academy awards for Best Movie, Best Supporting Actress (Soha Ali Khan), Best Screenplay (Rensil D'Silva and Rakeysh Mehra) and Best Music among other technical awards. Apart from these, the film won eight awards apiece at the 2006 Global Indian Film Awards and 2007 Star Screen Awards, and six at the 2007 Zee Cine Awards.

The film was also nominated for the Best Film not in English language at the 2007 British Academy of Film and Television Arts awards.






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