(Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra, India 2006, 167 min., 35mm, Hindi with English subtitles)
Denied the financing to make a film based on her grandfather’s diary, British filmmaker Sue McKinley (Alice Patten) decides to travel to India to produce it on her own. There she reunites with Sonia (Soha Ali Khan), who just happens to have friends that fit the roles of her film perfectly. Sue is attempting to tell the true story of three revolutionaries — Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev, and Rajguru — who were executed in the early 1930s after lengthy imprisonment and torture. As the group investigate their nation’s history, they begin to see parallels in the modern version of it, awakening their social and political spirit. Aamir Khan plays DJ, one of the primary actors in the film-within-the-film, and Sue’s love interest.
