RANG DE BASANTI is a film about awakening. About standing up for ones beliefs. Where the spirit of rebellion transcends time and age.A young London based filmmaker chances upon the diaries of her grandfather, who served in the british police force in India during the freedom struggle. Excited abouth these memories she makes plans to shoot a film on Indian revolutionaries mentioned in the diaries. She comes down to Delhi and casts a group of five friends to play the pivotal rules of these revolutionaries.

However products of modern India, the five youngsters refuse to be part of the project, as they don't identify with these chracters from the past. Now surprising, considering that they are part of a generation of Indians that believes in consumerism. To them issues like partriotism and giving ones life for ones beliefs is the stuff stuffy text book are made of. They would rather party then be patriots.