Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra enthralled the students of Whistling Woods International at Film City recently. In an hour long master class, he shared the complete process of film making, from concept to final print, and the journey of creating AKS. He elucidated that it was AKS that made him realize the importance of a screenplay, which he felt was the strongest aspect of RANG DE BASANTI.

After his previous master class with students in july 2006, Rakeysh had donated all the rush-footage and deleted scenes of RANG DE BASANTI to the Whistling Woods students library for the purpose of having students use the footage for editing exercises. He was pleasantly surprised when the students gifted him a DVD of several scenes, which had been re-edited by students according to their creative sensibilities.