Rang De Basanti 2006

Rang De Basanti (transl. Paint Me In The Color of Spring) is a 2006 Indian Hindi-language coming of age drama film written, directed, and co-produced by Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra. The film stars an ensemble cast of Aamir Khan, Siddharth (in his Hindi debut), Sharman Joshi, Kunal Kapoor, Atul Kulkarni, Soha Ali Khan, and Alice Patten (in her Hindi debut), with R. Madhavan in a guest appearance. Waheeda Rehman, Anupam Kher, Kirron Kher, and Om Puri appear in supporting roles. It follows a British film student traveling to India to document the story of five freedom fighters of the Indian revolutionary movement. She befriends and casts five young men in the film, which inspires them to fight against the injustices of their present-day government. Shot primarily in New Delhi, Rang De Basanti was released worldwide on 26 January 2006. Upon release, the film broke all opening box office records in India, becoming the country's highest-grossing film in its opening weekend and holding the highest opening-day collections for a Hindi film. It eventually became the seventh highest grossing Hindi film of 2006.