Mangal Pandey - The Falling
‘Mangal.. mangal ..mangal.. mangal’ the sad leitmotif of the brave sepoy from 34th infantry Barrackpore Reg. The noose took Mangal to martyrdom,to his worthy salvation, but not his cause, not his resolve and sadly not his maiden californication.
MP has a very tenuous storyline. My own extensive research on Mangal Pandey for my college newsletter’s cover story disclosed that very little is known about this 150 year old occurrence..some scholars have even questioned the very authenticity of Pandey. Even if we conveniently dismiss these literati musings as rubble-rousing, Mangal’s contribution to the First War of Independence does not qualify for californication .. certainly NOT bollyfication. Further, the senseless revelations( Kirron Kher ), incongruous and nondescript songs, extremely poor character portrayals make this period movie a box office failure.
I am deeply disappointed .. something I earnestly waited for …
Aamir strikingly resembles MP( check pic ). Superb cinematography. The Afghan war scenes have been shot in Tajikstan … Lord Canning resembles the taklu-with-islanding-hair in the photo of my history book ( yes I remember !!! ) and of course the truly inspiring theme song mangal-mangal.
Hamla Bol !!
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corrigendum: Halla Bol and not Hamla Bol. thanx saurabh.
Do you know you can re-edit your blog instead of adding a corrigendum??
i wanted to publicly acknowledge 'saurabh leela bansali' :-)
oye watch sarkar if possible..mangal shmangal now thats pure drama ..period
arun
watched too much of sarkar --> our FM prof :-))
watch sehar...awesome movie without any californaication :)...arshad warsi is simply brilliant
sameer
ooyee .. sehar?? not heard of it yet in this part of the world ( read god forsaken ).
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