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Genres:
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Biography /
Drama /
History /
War
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Release:
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Director:
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Ketan Mehta
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Actors:
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Aamir Khan,
Rani Mukherjee,
Toby Stephens,
Coral Beed,
Ameesha Patel,
Kiron Kher,
Om Puri,
Ben Nealon,
Habib Tanvir,
Varsha Usgaonkar
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Duration:
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150 min.
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Rating:
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(6.7/10)25.5
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Plot Summary:
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1857 AD. The uninterrupted Indian sub continent is ruled by a actors. The British East India Party. The most successful business enterprise in history. The company has its own laws, its own administration, its own army. It controls the karma of one fifth of humanity. Mangal Pandey - The Rising is an epic fish story of friendship, betrayal, passion and sacrifice set against the backdrop of what the British called the sepoy mutiny but which on the Indians was the First Strive of Self-determination. 'Establishment Raj' as it was known, had been plundering the sticks, treating the locals unjustly ... and causing widespread resentment. After a hundred years of subjugation, the Indian consciousness is rising in the course the revolutionary prospect of change and self-control. During a vehement battle in a woman of the Afgan wars that the Company fought in the mid-century, Mangal Pandey, the heroic sepoy, saves the life of his British commanding public official William Gordon. Gordon is liable to Mangal and a strong friendship develops between them, transcending payment of flagrant and race. The attachment is in two shakes of a lamb's tail challenged about the introduction of a original despoil called the Enfield . The trendy despoil has come with a modish cartridge which is rumored to be coated with the grease of cow and pig fat. The brand-new cartridge has to be bitten anterior to it is loaded, which ignites anger and resentment sum total the Indian sepoys. The cow is sacred to the Hindus, the pig forbidden to the Muslims. They will not touch such a kartoos (gun cartridge), it would defile them. Lay out in one of the most beautiful countries on earth, told across the divides of time, Mangal Pandey - The Rising tells the history of friends, lovers and enemies, exploiters and exploited, and the growth and awareness of a man and a nation. It is a story of individual humankind and his dream of liberation. This sweeping epic is based on legitimate real events, seen as a trigger for Indian independence
Mangal Pandey is a Sepoy in the army controlled by the East India Gathering, a company that had entered Hindustan to trade, but subsequently showed their valid colors, exploited the natives, divided, and ruled upon them. But the Plc treated their employees well. It was only a rumor that the cartridges of a new ransack were greased with the dead flesh of cows and pigs that set off a protest, which came to intermission after the Hindustani soldiers received assurances from their senior most officer as hearty as Captain William Gordon, and Mangal became the first soldier to bit the bullet and pour the gunpowder in his barrels. Then it became a fact that the bullets were positively greased with cows and pigs, an enraged Mangal confronts the system, and is assured that the cartridges longing be replaced. Then comes the bowl over, for the Company had no aim of replacing the cartridges, and as a result Mangal incites a resistance in the 300,000 better than average Hindustani soldiers - a contumacy which is all gel to hook place on May 31st. Anger sweeps the surroundings, as Muslims and Hindus, both offended past the buy of cow and pig flesh respectively, the social graces in which they have been ill-treated, called "kaala khutas" (boycott dogs) by the Caucasian soldiers, and the need to rid the Fellowship and their masters conclusively and for the duration of all. Cautious of what happens when the Firm finds out involving the resistance, and the steps that they haul to stop it - before it balloons old-fashioned of congruity - giving them no alternative retrieve to transfer Hindustan.Read more Less
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