Rang de Basanti Notes

* Rang de Basanti * You Pakistani scene. Police bribed. Extreme nationalism no western music, dancing, and so ontera * Mother general anatomy, mother India * Around 30 mins, say what is there to be patriotic almost? Corrpution, population, etc. But fighter pilot says no country is perfect, Im still pass oning to bust my life for my country. * Karan col lege kid, pressure from grow. Every second some oneness is born in this country, no one cares about them. Neither government nor God. Do something or else you will be one of them. SMS generation * Dont take film seriously at first, make fun of the language.Different times, say they cant relate. * Aslam Muslim, with Hindi friends. Family portrayed as violent, hating Hindus because Muslims are not accepted in India. * Sue is disappointed that India is not the amatory country she thought it was? * They had found new heroes, and we had no one to blame but ourselves. We were hearing the echoes of our consume guns. Scene of the Amritsar butchery. Men, women, children fired upon by Dyers armyas they tried to escape, women with babies jumping in wells. Boys say we are ilk ants, taking everything lying d birth/not reacting.Mom says this generation lacks will to do anything someone part of the massacre went all the way to London to kill Dyer. Punjab families send at least one son to army, generate runs in blood militant portrayal of Punjabs? * Friends scene saying maybe Ashfaq should go to Afghanistan, he will be safe with his own. Friend asks why am I not one of your own? First friend asks for forgiveness, it is as much your country as it is mine. * Not terrorists, revolutionaries. Tortured, but did not break. McKinley had a problem with the torture, Bismil said it is not your fault you are just doing your duty. Went to Ashfaq, said Bismil will create a country for Hindus. He said no, this is for the freedom on Hindustan, but you wouldnt understand because youve been a hard worker to that kind of thou ght for so long. * Did revolutionaries give their lives for nothing? One leg in future, one leg in past. Why dont you do something to qualify it? Difference is how you go to the grave. * A fair sexs place is at her husbands feet laughed at. * Drastic measures. Takes a loud noise to blunt deaf ears. Hunger strikes in prison. * He got his 21 gun salute at his funeral.But was it in egotistical? Died with his countrys flag. Saved many lives by not crashing it into the city. Corruption scandal. * Laxmans realization office mirror what young nationalists found at that time? Saw leader of his movement doing nothing, when they supposedly fought for India. inexperienced person people were getting hurt aran has finally found his cause. waking up * Colonial legacies left one behind for another? Cycle. * Class struggles Sukhi says Karans father will just bail him out. Accuses him of knowing that his father was corrupt. * Moral superiority.Bond over common cause, all rivals/problems are overcome * Change from within * Divisive/polarizing figure some say dont take the law into your own hands, others praise as the responsibility thing to do when politicians control the law * Revolutionary vs. terrorists * Why didnt the boys join politics, army, police, etc. to change the way that Ajay said to? * 1 people who go to their grave screaming. 2 people who die without a sound. Third kind of people he came across as being the ones who embraced death as a friend and an equal, with a heartfelt laughter