Rang De (రంగ్ దే)

MARCH 6, 1995, 6:30 AM.

Please give me a brother, God.

Mr. Prakash!

It's a boy.

'March 6, 1995. I was born at 7:29 am.'

'March 15, 1995. It was the day I came home.'

'It wasn't a festival day'

'but there was a celebration at home.'

'Maybe it was meant for me.'

'But I didn't understand why they gave me so much importance.'

'I really didn't get it until I was six months old.'

'Then one day I saw myself in the mirror.'

'I was small.'

'I was cute.'

'Then I understood that they all give me importance because I'm a baby.'

'My smile brought happiness to everyone.'

'My tears made my dad very tense.'

'And the first time I stood up was a big achievement.'

Mom! Brother stood up.

'Every occasion connected to me was a grand celebration.'

Arjun.

Make a wish, my boy. Make a wish.

'Mom said that God grants us our wishes on our birthday.'

MARCH 6, 1999.

'All the elderly ones shower love on me.'

THAT SAME EVENING.

'But there was nobody of my age.'

'I wish God gives me a friend, no, a girlfriend to play with.'

Anu! Get down.

I'm Prakash. We are your neighbors.

She's my wife.

Hello. - Hello.

Mom! - Come, darling.

My daughter Anu. I'm Shailaja. - Oh! So cute.

She's my daughter Sharada.

Hi. - Hi, aunt.

Arjun, come here.

Say hello.

Hi. - Hi.

Friends?

Friends.

What's your name? - I'm Anu.

Why are you carrying the things? - It's okay. Take this.

Thank you. - I'm from Bangalore.

Where is your father?

He collided with the divider and died on the spot.

My girl was just two years old.

For me?

Arjun! Give the chocolate to her.

Give it to her.

'That was the first time my dad shouted at me.'

Thank you. - 'What Anu did next made her a superstar in their eyes.'

Wow, Anu!

Dad! Did you see what Anu did?

She shared the chocolate with Arjun.

Anu, you are so cute.

Where did you learn such good manners, dear?

Where did you learn them, darling?

"O Rama, please engage me in your service"

'Just as Amitabh Bachchan's entry'

'shook up Rajesh Khanna's stardom'

'I understood that Anu's arrival ended my star status.'

'So, I became jealous of her.'

'Shailaja aunt, Anu's mom'

'became my only supporter in the whole colony.'

'She was the most important one to me after my parents.'

'Sometimes I liked her more than my parents.'

'June 12, 2001. It was a very important day for me.'

'I was in first standard. I'm a complete man.'

Don't cry, dear. Look at Arjun. He's smiling like a good boy.

What will you take to go to the class?

I'll go if Arjun comes to my class.

Arjun! Are you going to study kindergarten once again?

'Then my jealousy turned into hatred.'

'I hated being in the same class again

and I started failing in my subjects.

A for apple, B for bapple, C for capple, D for dapple?

What's this? How will you do well in your exams?

Hi, uncle. - Hello.

I came first in class.

Look at her. Learn from Anu.

'I was scared that I'll continue to hear that in the future too.'

ARJUN JUMPING THE SCHOOL GATE AT THE AGE OF TEN

Uncle! Arjun bunked school today.

Don't you have any sense?

'She tattled on me and then she comforted me.'

I have your best interests at heart.

ARJUN AT THE AGE OF FOURTEEN

Uncle, Arjun...

How will you progress in life?

Sorry, Arjun.

What's this? What will you do with this?

'My classes went up but my scores went down.'

Learn from Anu.

'She scored the top rank in EAMCET'

'but my rank sounded like Delhi's zip code.'

'We had to pawn mom's gold jewelry to pay'

'for a seat in the engineering college.'

Learn from Anu.

'Learn from Anu.'

AFTER A FEW YEARS

'I somehow managed to finish four years.'

'We are expecting final year's results today.'

Yes!

What? Did you pass?

Of course! I scored 95% marks!

Congrats!

Thank you.

What are you doing?

Seeing Arjun's result.

'What's wrong?'

He failed in five subjects. Poor guy.

He'll be so upset when he sees it.

I wonder where he is now.

Hi, Arjun! I heard you failed in five subjects.

Who told you?

Anu told me. She's very sad.

Me too. I'm planning to study all these books

and pass in supplementary exams.

Really? Come with me.

What happened to the books in these shelves?

That's exactly what I want to know.

What happened to all these books? - Sir?

Ever since you joined in first year of college

you've been taking books for regular exams

and supplementary exams, but never return them.

You even took the telephone directory home.

I think I'm going to lose my job.

What did you do with those books?

How many subjects did you fail? - Five.

I failed in six subjects. How many did you fail?

Five plus six, eleven.

You are the well-educated guy in our group.

The cover is torn. You'll get only 300 bucks for it.

Take them back.

No. Arjun, wait. Why are you taking them back?

What do you expect?

Didn't we sell you 400 books in the last four years

for reasonable prices?

You've become too money-minded, uncle.

Please don't instigate him.

Forget it. Call the bookstore uncle in Koti.

No, wait. - Call him right now.

Don't do that. I'll pay you. Take your money.

You are regular customers. - Give that to me.

Give it.

Get lost.

Take this.

We can party like rich guys now.

Don't be sad that you failed.

The sun will shine on you again. I'm with you.

Her stupid sympathy.

Don't vent your anger on your iPhone.

Did you forget what all we did to get you this phone?

Apply for recounting of your marks, man.

I checked with a man in the university.

He'll take 5,000 rupees for a subject

and give you the scores that you want.

But please tell Anu not to tell your dad about it. He will...

I'll hit you with my shoe!

I paid for your bike, I paid for the fuel in it

I fed you well and gave you pocket money.

And these are the marks you score?

All the marks put together are less than your weight.

Don't scold me, Dad. Others are watching.

Are you embarrassed? How should I show my face in the office?

Look! Sridhar's son cleared IAS.

Pranith's daughter got a seat in IIT.

Learn from them, you idiot!

How will you get good marks if you have stupid friends?

You just know to eat mom's food and laze around.

Let me go.

Go and sit at their feet. Then you might learn something.

Your stupid hair and your silly glasses!

Calm down. Just calm down.

What is your salary?

I earn one hundred thousand a month.

Ambani earns ten million a month.

Why don't you go and learn from him?

What nonsense! What's that comparison?

Every man has his own limit.

Exactly. We have our own limits.

So instead of pouncing on us like a hound

and asking us to learn from others

get to know our limitations and support us.

Or, be content with what we know and leave us.

We'll achieve something by our own merit someday.

Got it?

Get lost.

I want to eat ice-cream, man.

You want ice-cream now? Let's just go home.

No. We shouldn't go home with dissatisfaction.

I'm already upset that I failed. - Really?

I'll make sure you get your ice-cream.

Be careful.

Let's see. Oh no, the bumper came loose.

Let's run, man.

This car looks familiar to me.

Arjun!

I rammed into somebody's car. - It's our car.