Waheeda Rehman has appeared in more than 90 feature films in a career spanning over five decades. She was honoured with the Padma Shri in 1972 and the Padma Bhushan in 2011

Rang De Basanti follows a British film student travelling to India to document the story of five freedom fighters. She casts five young men in the film, which inspires them to fight against the evils of their own present-day government