Mangal Pandey - The Rising (2005)

Simply A Masterpiece

Excellent adaptation.

This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

This movie was so totally definitely epic and worth watching Storyline is superb screenplay is superb background music is superb editing is superb Direction is good Songs they are really impressive Aamir khan is superb other actors are excellent 9/10 this movie is a hundred percent better movie All time blockbuster

A worthy attempt at telling the story of an episode of history that we will never be too sure about what really happened.Was he a hero? Perhaps only accidentally so, but yes I do believe he was. Did the British cover up the truth and distort it - more than likely.Either way the film is highly entertaining and worthwhile.Now we need a film made of the Eastern equivalent of the Spartans at the Battle of Thermopylae - I am of course referring to the brave 21 Sikhs at the Battle of Saragarhi in 1897 who fought up to 10,000 - 14,000 heavily armed Afghans and killed hundreds (perhaps thousands) of them before falling in battle.Saragarhi at least is accurately documented.

Kehtan Mehta is one of the worst directors to walk the earth this movie was bad songs were bad acting was just terrible this movie failed at the box office and i'm pretty glad the script was terribly written by few selected writers who's idea was to make this movie what happened to Aamir Khan after 4 years in Lagaan he was the man what happened in this movie maybe the director is just bad and doesn't know how to direct how could this movie be a success terrible thumbs down to the director scriptwriters basically everyone who was involved with this movie i'mm just a biased commentator who's saying that every scene was a piece of nonsense what the hell is this and where did they come up with this stuff truly one of the worst movies made should be the tagline of this movie if you're a one-sided commentator then you'll hate this movie i really hated it

This is only the second Bollywood I have seen and was not quite what I'd expected. (I've probably heard too many stereotypical summaries about Bollywood cinema.) I was impressed. This film was very good, solid entertainment and I'd rate it among the best films I've seen in the past few years. I'd agree that some of the song-and-dance routines were superfluous to the plot and could be left out without harming the film, but not all of them. The itinerant players on the elephant were right for setting the scene in the opening sequence and at relevant points throughout the film.I also like the use of 'real' actors for most of the crowd scenes and minimal use of CGI. (I'm no fan of CGI, whatever its convenience for film makers: it often looks cartoonish, doesn't fit in with the live action, and spoils the illusion of the film.)As to the historical accuracy, I don't look to films for historical information and this doesn't interest me so much as whether the story is well told. This one is!As a history graduate, I know that dominant versions of history change periodically, and strict "accuracy" is of more concern to the academics than to people in general. Historical accuracy is for the textbooks, films need to have room for myth and folklore. How many rather good films would never have been made if we were always "historically accurate" about Robin Hood and King Arthur?