While still on the air, the police proclaim that they are dangerous terrorists who have forcefully taken over the AIR, and therefore they are to be shot on sight. Karan goes on air and reveals the truth about the defence minister and his wrongdoings. They forcibly take over the All India Radio station premises after having evacuated its employees. To bring forth their intentions behind the killings, the five of them attempt to reach the public through a radio station. The minister is reported to have been killed by terrorists and is hailed as a martyr by the media. As a result, they kill the defence minister to avenge Rathod's death, while Karan murders his father for his corrupt actions. DJ, Karan, Aslam, Sukhi, and Laxman decide that they must emulate the early freedom fighters and resort to violence to achieve justice. Police forcefully break up their protest using batons in the process, Rathod's mother (Waheeda Rehman) is severely hurt and she slips into a coma. To their surprise, they learn that the key person who was responsible for organizing the deal was Karan's father, Rajnath Singhania (Anupam Kher).Īngered by the situation, the group and their supporters decide to protest peacefully at India Gate, a war memorial in New Delhi. They investigate and learn that the crash was due to a corrupt defence minister (Mohan Agashe), who had signed a contract exchanging cheap and illegal MiG-21 aircraft spare parts for a personal favour. Instead, they claim that he sacrificed his life to save hundreds of other lives that would have been lost had he ejected from the aircraft and left it to crash into a populous city. Knowing that Rathod was an ace pilot, Sonia and her friends do not accept the official explanation. The government proclaims that the crash was caused by pilot error and closes the investigation. Madhavan), a flight lieutenant in the Indian Air Force who is Sonia's fiancé, is killed when his jet, a MiG-21, crashes. They gradually begin to realize that their own lives are quite similar to the characters they portray in Sue's film and that the state of affairs that once plagued the revolutionaries continues to torment their generation. In the process of filming, the idealism of India's revolutionary heroes seeps into the protagonists. Laxman Pandey (Atul Kulkarni), a political party activist, joins the cast later, despite initially being unpopular due to his anti-Muslim beliefs and contempt for Aslam Khan. Though they aren't very enthusiastic at the idea of acting in a film about the independence movement, Sue eventually manages to convince them. After a few unsuccessful auditions in search of the actors, Sue finally casts Sonia's friends, four young men Daljit "DJ" (Aamir Khan), Karan Singhania (Siddharth Narayan), Aslam Khan (Kunal Kapoor) and Sukhi Ram (Sharman Joshi) to portray the revolutionaries. Having decided to make a self-financed documentary film about these revolutionaries, Sue travels to India, with the help of her friend, Sonia (Soha Ali Khan), from the Institute for International Studies at the University of Delhi. McKinley reveals that it was then that he met with the third kind. who died without uttering a sound and the second kind. McKinley, in his diary, states that he had met two type of people in his life: the first one. Through the diary, she learns about the story of five freedom fighters who were active in the movement: Chandrasekhar Azad, Bhagat Singh, Shivaram Rajguru, Ashfaqulla Khan, and Ram Prasad Bismil. McKinley (Steven Mackintosh), who served as a jailer in the Imperial Police during the Indian independence movement. Struggling British filmmaker Sue McKinley (Alice Patten) comes across the diary of her grandfather, Mr.