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[Marietta Bleasdale]

Rangeelareleased on 8 September 1995, and proved to be a major box office success. The film received critical acclaim upon release, with particular praise directed towards the film's soundtrack and Matondkar's performance, thus proving to be a breakthrough for her. It was screened at the mainstream section of the International Film Festival of India.[3]

A street-toughened orphan by the name of Munna (Aamir Khan) is befriended by some kind folks, whose effervescent daughter Mili (Urmila Matondkar) soon grows to be his best buddy. Both gravitate toward the Mumbai movie industry. While Mili finds occupation as a movie extra, Munna earns his livelihood selling movie tickets in the black market.

Mili has ambitions of becoming an actress. Fortune glances her way when she dances her way into a movie star's attention. This actor, Raj Kamal (Jackie Shroff), arranges for her to be auditioned for the heroine's role in his upcoming film called Rangeela. Mili's shortcomings amount to distractions, but thanks in no small way to Munna and Raj, she lands the role.

Raj and Munna both fall for Mili, but Mili is too busy making the movie to notice any of this. She starts spending a lot of time with Raj during the filming. Munna tries many times to tell Mili that he loves her, but he is unable to, or Raj gets in the way. Eventually, feeling inferior, Munna decides to leave Mili to Raj, who can give her a better life than he can. The matter is not resolved though, as Mili hears of this on the film's opening night reading the letter that Munna left for her. After learning that Munna is even leaving the town, she emotionally runs out of the function to find Munna. Raj is initially angry at Mili for leaving the function midway. Mili tells Raj that Munna has written in the letter that he loves her but has misunderstood their relationship and left the town for good. Raj is taken aback when Mili tearfully tells him that she too loves Munna and can't think of a life without him. Having realized his mistake, Raj decides to reunite Mili and Munna.

The soundtrack featured 7 songs composed by A. R. Rahman with lyrics penned by Mehboob and an instrumental theme song. The audio was released in 14 May 1995 by Rahman's mother Kareema. It is listed in almost all lists of best Bollywood soundtracks.[6]

The soundtrack fetched Rahman two filmfare awards, Filmfare Award for Best Music Director and Filmfare R. D. Burman Award for New Music Talent. Mehboob got two nominations for Filmfare Award for Best Lyricist, for the tracks "Kya Kare" and "Tanha Tanha". Swarnalatha, Shweta Shetty and Kavita Krishnamurthy were nominated for Filmfare Award for Best Female Playback Singer for their respective tracks.

The song "Yaaro Sun Lo Zara" was originally composed for a Telugu film Super Police (1994) as "Baabu Love Cheyyara". The soundtrack was also released in Tamil, with title Rangeela itself and lyrics penned by Vairamuthu. However, the reused track "Yaaro Sun Lo Zara" was not included in the Tamil version. The soundtrack rights are now acquired by Tips Music Company.

Despite the film's huge success, It was still regarded as a film ahead of its time as the films made during the early 1990s had dated plots and storylines. Shekhar Kapur called it 'The film of the 21st Century with great music and visuals' at the screening of the film.[citation needed] The look and presentation of Urmila Matondkar in the film became the talk of the town as it re-invented the image of the Bollywood Heroine. Aamir Khan played an unusual character of a Mumbaiya Tapori in the early stages of his career and that proved to be the milestone for him. A. R. Rahman's music of the film became such a rage that it topped the charts for almost a decade. The songs still remain popular as they have a fresh feel. The film established careers of so many technicians and the people who worked behind the camera.

Logo: We see a man (Rangeela) walking by, what it appears to be a house, doing his hair. We then cut to his face, which looks kind of worried. Next we cut to a white horse on a black background before cutting back to the man's face, which is more worried. We cut back to the horse, this time in a different position while moving his snout. We finally cut back to the man, which turns left, looking for anyone around him. After 4 seconds, he smiles & laughs. Finally, we see the hard-to-read text "RANGEELA PRODUCTION" in white & "Presents", also white in cursive. It all ends with the fade-out effect.

Editor's Note: This has been a weird logo among the logo community, due to the questionable nature & the fact that the flaming figure was included, especially for the Aurat Raj Version, which can be creepy to some.

Logo: We see footage of an explosion (actually part of the first scene of Kubra Ashiq). After a few seconds, it freezes, and the text in black "RANGEELA PRODUCTIONS" and "Present" in below the name of the company with "Present" in a script font fade in. It then cuts to a soldier with an AK-47, then to a faint explosion. it then cuts to a tank with dust flying on it. It then cuts to two soldiers running, while jumping over the ground. It then cuts to the same soldier with the AK-47, but with a spinning effect. Then, it cuts to two soldiers running beside a tank. It then shows the tank for a few seconds before cutting to three more soldiers running past the tank. After that, we cut to the official film itself. The entire logo is tinted orange.

Editor's Note: This has been known for being one of the scariest logos of all time, thanks to the bizarre subject matter, ominous sounds and the nature. The Do Rangeeley version is way tamer, but it's still eerie. Whatever the reason how it's scary, this has been recently discovered it's likely intentional, since it cuts to a death scene with a man screaming in the background.

It's been 25 years since Ram Gopal Varma's Rangeela, his love letter to the Mumbai film industry starring Urmila Matondkar, Aamir Khan, Gulshan Grover and Jackie Shroff released. Here are 8 anecdotes about the film's making:

1. The story was inspired by three people Varma knew during his college days. One of these was a thug-like guy who changed his style in an attempt to impress an upper-class girl. Aamir Khan's character, Munna, does the same in Rangeela.

7. When costume designer Neeta Lulla couldn't be in Hyderabad for the fittings, she would send her assistant instead. Varma eventually appointed her assistant to do the film. That assistant was Manish Malhotra and Rangeela was his first film project.

Rangeela (Colorful) is a 1995 Bollywood musical romantic film starring Aamir Khan, Urmilla Matonkar, and Jackie Shroff. It was the first original Hindi language film to feature A.R. Rahman as its Music Director. Rahman had, until this point, mostly scored movies made in South India that were dubbed into Hindi.

The plot focuses on Munna, an orphaned Street Urchin from Mumbai's slums, and Millie, his childhood friend and aspiring actress. Millie gets occasional bit parts as an extra in movies, but is a talented dancer, hoping to get her big break. Munna gets by selling scalped movie tickets. Munna is in love with Millie but Cannot Spit It Out. Millie is discovered by a talent scout while dancing by her lonesome in an abandoned warehouse and is invited to audition for a movie starring famed leading man Rajkamal played by Jackie Shroff.

After a very successful audition, Millie is selected to be Rajkamal's leading lady in his new film. She immerses herself into her role, but slips farther and farther away from the simple girl Munna knew. Seeing that she seems happy in her newfound fame and with Rajkamal, Munna starts to let her go. But Rajkamal catches wind of this. Will he claim Millie all for himself or will he reunite the two childhood friends?

Rangeela contains examples of: Cannot Spit It Out: Munna can't bring himself to tell Millie how he feels. Dream Sequence: The movie starts with a Dream Sequence, with Millie dreaming about dancing and everybody dancing with her. I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: Why Munna slowly stops having anything to do with Millie - she seems happy with Rajkamal and he doesn't want to get in her way. Rich Suitor, Poor Suitor: Rajkamal is a successful Bollywood leading man. Munna gets by selling scalped tickets.

Rangeela is a consistent favourite of mine. After Guddi, no one had really managed to capture the dichotomies of the film industry so well until Ramu came along. Bombay, though, has been captured brilliantly by both Hrishikesh Mukherjee and Basu Chatterjee in most of their films. Remember Rhim jhim gire saawan? ?

Wonderful write up and a subject close to my heart, as a Bombayiite. Bombayiite because I remember when it used to be VT and not CST. Nothing to sneer at about the CST name but i just grew up with VT and VT it will always be.

For me, No Smoking was the movie that evoked the dirty but enticing the smell of the city, although it was not set in any particular one, to me it was Bombay, maybe it was supposed to be Kolkata. Another city which reminded me of the smell of Bombay was Hong Kong, with a mix of rotting, rats and hot laundry. In Bombay it is shit smell and something spicy that hits you like a warm slap in the face as soon as you exit the airport and then the monsoon Bombay takes on top notes from overflowing sewers. Eau de Mumbai.

Come to think of it, I only recently, I meant a couple of years back, came to know of why Ramu and Aamir were at logger-heads and never worked together after RANGEELA: And both were equally right in their own methods!

What does Aamir have to say to that? THIS. IS. INTERFERENCE, that would have turned down an entire film on its central premise. Kindly educate me on a single instance or a film where SRK has done this.

The story is of three people and the Hindi cinema that they are a part of. Mili Joshi dreams of becoming an actress, but is merely an extra dancing in the background. Munna sells black-market tickets to the movies. Raj Kamal, an actor, soon sees Mili and plans to make her a big star like she desires. But, a love triangle between the three soon forms.

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