Rang Rasiya
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Promotional poster for the film
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| Directed by | Ketan Mehta |
| Produced by |
Deepa Sahi Aanand Mahendroo Ketan Mehta |
| Written by | Sanjeev Dutta (screenplay) Ketan Mehta |
| Based on | The life of Raja Ravi Verma |
| Starring |
Randeep Hooda Nandana Sen Feryna Wazheir Triptha Parashar Gaurav Dwivedi |
| Music by | Sandesh Shandilya |
| Cinematography |
Rail Raltchev Christo Bakalov |
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| Country | India |
| Language | Hindi English |
Rang Rasiya (Colours of passion) is an Indian drama film based on the life of the 19th-century Indian painter Raja Ravi Varma. Made as a bilingual, the film is titled Rang Rasiya in its Hindi version and Colours of Passion in English. The film, directed by Ketan Mehta, is produced by his wife Deepa Sahi and by Aanand Mahendroo. It stars Randeep Hooda as the title character and Nandana Sen as his love interest.
Mehta thought that Varma was the most fascinating artist of that era and his character, persona and paintings fascinated him from his days at Film and Television Institute of India. After reading Desai's novel, he formulated the story of his new film. Mehta moulded the script to project Ravi Varma as a radical painter, and This change, Mehta felt, would help the film achieve more traction with the intelligentsia, and ease the path to awards and honours.
After his last commercial production Mangal Pandey: The Rising (2005), Mehta chose to make a film on the 19th-century painter, Raja Ravi Varma's life. Incidentally both these movies were based on a subject from the 19th century. Rang Rasiya is an adaptation of the biographical novel Raja Ravi Varma authored by the Marathi writer Ranjit Desai.
When Mehta first met Nandana Sen at her house, he saw two life-size reproductions of Raja Ravi Varma's paintings. This indicated to him that she was familiar with the artist and his works, something that he thought would make his job as a director easier. Speaking of the character she was to portray, he said:
"To me, she was the perfect woman to play the muse of an artist who sparked off debates about censorship of art. She has that child-woman quality, which was so much a part of Sugandha's personality."
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