LONDON -- The cream of the Indian film industry gathered in the northern city of Sheffield during the weekend to watch "Rang de Basanti" sweep the boards at the International Indian Film Academy ...

NEW DELHI -- India's entry for best foreign-language film at the Oscars, "Rang De Basanti" (Paint It Yellow), took best film and best director for Rakeysh Mehra on Saturday night at the 52nd annual ...

Few Indian films have sparked more controversy than the recent Rang De Basanti, directed by Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra. As a cultural phenomenon, as well as a cautionary tale, the film deserves some ...

It was Independence Day when I wrote these lyrics for a short film made in national interest for the Film & Television Institute of India. The social message of secularism, conveyed purposefully ...

SHEFFIELD (Reuters) - Bollywood came to Britain this weekend as 12,000 people crammed into a stadium in northern England to see Hindi movie Rang De Basanti (Paint It Saffron) scoop nearly a dozen ...

When Rang De Basanti was released in 2006, it shook the nation with its thunderous impact and its cultural reverberations can be felt even today, two decades later. It was a critical and commercial ...

Bollywood actress Hema Malini has expressed gratitude to the audience as Ramesh Sippy's iconic film 'Sholay' completed 50 years of its release. On Friday, the actress, fondly remembered as 'Basanti' ...

Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra's Rang De Basanti (2006) is turning 20 tomorrow on Republic Day. The film served as a social critique of the prevailing situations of the country. It portrayed the awakening of ...

When Rang De Basanti opened on January 26, 2006, I was in a theatre in Patna, watching a very fidgety, very confused audience reacting, as we all did, to unfamiliar experiences with embarrassment and ...