The police arrive at the station under instructions to kill them. Karan goes on air and calls out the defense ministry's corruption to the public. The group decides to publicly clarify their intent behind the assassination, and take over the All India Radio station after evacuating its employees. The media reports that Shastri was killed by terrorists and celebrates him as a martyr. Inspired by the revolutionaries, the group decides to take action themselves and they assassinate Shastri to avenge Ajay's death, while Karan confronts and murders his father. Laxman realizes his senior party official, ordered the police to stop the protest and becomes disillusioned with his own party. Galvanized against the corruption of the government by their efforts working on the film, the group organizes a peaceful protest at the India Gate war memorial, but the police arrive and violently break up the demonstration with Ajay's mother going into a coma. They are disheartened to learn that Karan's father Rajnath Singhania was involved in orchestrating the deal. They learn that the corrupt Defense Minister, Shastri, signed a contract importing cheap parts for MiG-21 aircraft in exchange for a personal favor. The government attributes the accident to pilot error and closes the case, but Sonia and her friends refuse to accept the official explanation, remembering Ajay as a skilled pilot who died while steering the plane away from crashing into a populous city. The group becomes devastated when their friend Ajay Singh Rathod, a flight lieutenant in the Indian Air Force and Sonia's fiancée, is killed when his MiG-21 jet malfunctions and crashes. However, over the course of working on the film, Pandey grows closer to the others. Tensions arise when Sue casts the boys' rival, the right-wing party activist Laxman Pandey as Bismil. She immediately decides to cast them in her film, with Daljit "DJ" Singh as Chandra Shekhar Azad, Karan Singhania as Bhagat Singh, Aslam Khan as Ashfaqulla Khan, and Sukhi Ram as Rajguru.ĭJ, Karan, Aslam and Sukhi are carefree and cynical about their futures, and while they easily get along with Sue, they remain uninterested in working on a film expressing patriotism towards India.
Amid a string of unsuccessful auditions, Sue meets Sonia's friends: Daljit "DJ", Karan, Sukhi and Aslam. Inspired by the revolutionaries' story, Sue decides to make a film on them and travels to India, where she searches for actors with the help of her friend Sonia, an international studies student at the University of Delhi. James oversaw the capture and execution of five Indian freedom fighters - Chandrasekhar Azad, Bhagat Singh, Shivaram Rajguru, Ashfaqulla Khan, and Ram Prasad Bismil - and has written in his diary about his admiration for their revolutionary spirit in spite of working for the British Empire. In London, film student Sue McKinley finds the diary of her grandfather James, who served as a Colonel for the British Raj in the 1930s.
The film was released globally on 26 January 2006, the Republic Day of India. The film was shot primarily in New Delhi. She befriends and casts five young men in the film, which inspires them to fight against the corruption of their own government. It follows a British film student traveling to India to document the story of five freedom fighters of the Indian revolutionary movement. The film features an ensemble cast consisting of Aamir Khan, Siddharth, Atul Kulkarni, Soha Ali Khan, Sharman Joshi, Kunal Kapoor and British actress Alice Patten. Paint it saffron) is a 2006 Indian Hindi-language drama film written, produced and directed by Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra, and co-written by Rensil D'Silva.