I was also surprised by the direction the plot takes. This film speaks strongly for an inclusive and all-encompassing India, and it does it well. Aamir Khan is as great as always, but all the rest of the main actors are also superb, and varied in the characters they're portraying. The college students play the characters and we're every now and then reminded that this is indeed a film. But it's all channeled through the documentary. We see the young rebels fighting for India's freedom, so in essence the film jumps between two timelines. What I liked about this film the most is how it juggles its storytelling. There she recruits a bunch of college students to play the key parts and slowly introduces them to the history of their own country, which they have so far dismissed as corrupted and beyond salvation. So she packs her bags and travels to India to film the documentary even without the help of her studio. It is after all based on a story left to her by her grandfather. But she has already sacrificed so much for the film, believing strongly in it. A British documentary filmmaker gets denied her funding at the last minute.
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