Rang De Basanti Completes 15 Years: An Exclusive Conversation With Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra
In a world where autocracy and oppression seem to have made their proverbial summer home, any news of peace and patriotism is likely to be taken with a pinch of salt. This is what happened when the footage of Republic Day celebrations at an educational institution in one of the most politically volatile districts in the Valley, the Shopian district, first went viral. It s a first and it s a positive step and it took a while to sink in.
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In what can be termed a turnaround of the century, the first-ever Republic Day celebrations were held at the Islamic school Jamia Siraj ul Uloom in the Hillow village. The one-minute clip depicts students and faculty together standing in rows while Jan Gan Man plays in the background and the Tricolour is hoisted amidst salutes.
Rang De Basanti Completes 15 Years: An Exclusive Conversation With Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra
15 years ago, Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra s Rang De Basanti did not require any heavy dialogues or polished Urdu or Sanskrit euphemism to make the youth realise how most of us had accepted corruption to be a part of our system instead of fighting it.
In one of the shot sequences, the young college boys meet at a bar in Delhi, to bid farewell to their friend Ajay. Somewhere amid fun and laughter, the conversation gets heated and the most significant, honest, the truth came out as a dialogue from Ajay Rathod.
Rang De Basanti Completes 15 Years: An Exclusive Conversation With Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra
When the misinformation ceases to be harmless, it invites for the law to step in. In one of its latest orders, the Union Home Secretary has come down heavily on those spreading rumours against vaccines.
The home secretary Ajay Bhalla has asked the state chief secretaries to put in place a mechanism to check the spread of misinformation when it comes to Covid vaccines and book those spreading such wrong information under the IPC and the Disaster Management Act. Penal action may be taken against the persons/organisations who are found to have indulged in such activities under the relevant provisions of the Disaster Management Act and the Indian Penal Code, says the latter dated January 19.
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Rang De Basanti Completes 15 Years: An Exclusive Conversation With Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra
The much-anticipated teaser of Prithviraj s new movie Jana Gana Mana was released on Tuesday, coinciding with India s 72nd Republic Day celebrations. The teaser is power-packed, and it opens in the middle of an interrogation session of a suspect. In the teaser, Prithviraj Sukumaran can be seen playing the role of the suspect, while Suraj Venjaramoodu plays the role of the questioning police officer.