Rang De Basanti vs The Illusion
Rang De Basanti has the higher audience score (7.1/10 against 6.8/10 for The Illusion). The Illusion is the shorter watch at 2h 11m compared with 2h 37m. Rang De Basanti is the older of the two (2006 against 2025). Both are comedy, drama, history movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Rang De Basanti
The Illusion| Rang De Basanti | The Illusion | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 7.1/10 | ★ 6.8/10 |
| Year | 2006 | 2025 |
| Length | 2h 37m | 2h 11m |
| Genres | Comedy, Drama, History, Romance | Comedy, Drama, History |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra | Roberto Andò |
| Main cast | Steven Mackintosh, Anupam Kher, Om Puri, Aamir Khan, Kunal Kapoor | Pascal Greggory, Aurora Quattrocchi, Toni Servillo, Tommaso Ragno, Salvatore Ficarra |
Synopsis
Rang De Basanti
After a group of friends graduate from Delhi University, they listlessly haunt their old campus, until a British filmmaker casts them in a film she's making about freedom fighters under British rule. Although the group is largely apolitical, the tragic death of a friend owing to local government corruption awakens their patriotism. Inspired by the freedom fighters they represent in the film, the friends collectively decide to avenge the killing.
The Illusion
1860. Giuseppe Garibaldi began from Quarto the adventure of the Thousand surrounded by the enthusiasm of the young idealists who had come from all regions of Italy, and with his loyal group of officers, among whom a new profile stands out, that of Palermo Colonel Vincenzo Giordano Orsini. Among the many militiamen recruited were two Sicilians, Domenico Tricò, a farmer who had emigrated to the North, and Rosario Spitale, an illusionist. Having…
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