Sarah Jilani

Controversial scenes, including, spoiler, the defence minister being shot, saw the film being temporarily banned on release.

But this was overturned after a special screening for government and army officials.

It challenged audiences to step up and shape their country themselves.

A viewing at the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology, known as IIT Mumbai, where students often end up in Silicon Valley in the US, had life-changing consequences.

Seven students, they were ready to leave for US for their jobs.

They saw the film and they decided not to go to America and work for India.

So these boys, they had visas stamped on their passport and they refused to go to America.

One particularly moving scene saw the characters marching side by side in a candlelit vigil, protesting against government corruption.

This would go on to inspire real-life demos.

Some of the elements of the film, they became very popular.

Imagery, a candle march, which we used in the film for the first time, became a visual metaphor for any protest event.

These included marches against the murder of a young woman called Jessica Lal following the acquittal of her killer.

Public pressure helped push the case to the Delhi High Court, which overturned the verdict and convicted Manu Sharma, sentencing him to life imprisonment in December 2006.

News reports commented on how protests, including this one, mirrored that scene from the movie.

These kind of ideas, they are like a flame.

For a brief shiny moment, they have some effect on you.

But then there is a daily life.

There is a routine that you are following every day.

You can't be a rebel every day of your life.

Well, they did not have an ending.