Mangal Pandey: The Rising (1 Viewer)

[Scott]

I rented this movie from NetFlix. It's a Bollywood version of the beginning of the Indian Mutiny. Very colorful but messes with history. See the details at...


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mangal_Pandey:_The_Rising#Criticism

Scott

 

[Harrytheheid]

I rented this movie from NetFlix. It's a Bollywood version of the beginning of the Indian Mutiny. Very colorful but messes with history. See the details at...Scott

Messes with history..!!??.....Aye, yer no kiddin' there Scott.
I have the DVD, and its a good enough movie, but completely risible and wide open to piss-takes.
Cheers
H

 

[Scott]

They did forget putting percussion caps on the Enfields. They did push that fat on the cartridge story. But how many war movies have song and dance numbers?

 

[OldDragon]

... But how many war movies have song and dance numbers?

Scott ... would the " listening to the record " scene before the final battle in Saving Private Ryan, be considered almost a song & dance number ?

OD

 

[Scott]

It might have introduced more Americans to Edith Piaf. Then there's the Duchess of Richmond's Ball scene in Waterloo. Oh yes and several scenes in the 3 versions of War and Peace. Gone with the Wind to.

In most movies these are naturally occuring social events. In Indian movies a crowd starts dancing and the stars start singing in elaborate numbers that would not happen naturally. Sort of like in American Broadway musicals. There's often 3 hours of this per movie and the Indians I've talked to love it.

See LOC (Line of Control), a movie about modern Indian troops fighting in the Kashmir. If the army wifes delivering death notices in We Were Soldiers started singing, it would have been like a scene in LOC.