{"id":128735,"date":"2025-09-08T11:58:05","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T11:58:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/128735\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T11:58:05","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T11:58:05","slug":"it-was-never-just-a-film-its-a-feeling-urmila-matondkar-on-30-years-of-rangeela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/128735\/","title":{"rendered":"It was never just a film, it&#8217;s a feeling: Urmila Matondkar on 30 years of &#8216;Rangeela&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> New Delhi, Bollywood star Urmila Matondkar penned a heartfelt note on social media on Monday as she celebrated 30 years of her film &#8220;Rangeela&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>     <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1_1752988880768_1752988881613.jpeg\" alt=\"It was never just a film, it's a feeling: Urmila Matondkar on 30 years of 'Rangeela'\" title=\"It was never just a film, it's a feeling: Urmila Matondkar on 30 years of 'Rangeela'\"\/>   It was never just a film, it&#8217;s a feeling: Urmila Matondkar on 30 years of &#8216;Rangeela&#8217;    <\/p>\n<p> Matondkar shared a video of herself on Instagram, which featured her dancing on the track &#8220;Rangeela Re&#8221; from the film. <\/p>\n<p> Released on September 8, 1995, the film was directed by Ram Gopal Varma and also starred Aamir Khan alongside Matondkar. <\/p>\n<p> The 51-year-old actor said &#8220;Rangeela&#8221; isn&#8217;t just a film but a &#8220;grand celebration of life&#8221; for her. <\/p>\n<p> &#8220;It was never just a film. It was, and still is, a feeling\u2026Woven with intense joy, hope, dreams, ambition, beauty, zest, affection, admiration, love and desire, struggle and triumph, sacrifice, and above all, a grand celebration of life,&#8221; her post began. <\/p>\n<p> &#8220;Every scene brings back an instant, childlike smile, carrying us into a world of innocence and wonder. Each song is not merely music, but a celebration of the Navrasa -the nine emotions of Indian literature and poetry&#8230;An innocent girl walks onto the silver screen and, with her charm and purity, captures hearts taking the audience on a timeless journey of beauty, poetry, life, and love,&#8221; she added. <\/p>\n<p> She concluded, &#8220;Thirty years ago today, &#8216;Rangeela&#8217; became each one of yours.l! And I am sure, even today, it has the power to transport you back to that very first moment-when you laughed, cheered, and fell in love with its magic. Thank you for letting me be a part of your lives, for embracing me with so much love, and for putting me in a place that only a few can even dare to dream of.. yet fewer are ever blessed to Your appreciation, your accolades!! Your love have been the greatest blessings of my journey. thank you.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p> &#8220;Rangeela&#8221; revolved around Matondkar&#8217;s character Mili dreaming of becoming a famous actor. However, things take a turn when Raj Kamal, a noted actor, and Munna , her childhood friend, both fall in love with her. <\/p>\n<p> Noted music composer A R Rahman composed the music for the film. <\/p>\n<p>This article was generated from an automated news agency feed without modifications to text.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Delhi, Bollywood star Urmila Matondkar penned a heartfelt note on social media on Monday as she celebrated&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":128736,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[20236,4073,49,48,75,337,38055,70640,70639],"class_list":{"0":"post-128735","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-aamir-khan","9":"tag-bollywood","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-canada","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-movies","14":"tag-new-delhi","15":"tag-rangeela","16":"tag-urmila-matondkar"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}