Mangal Pandey - The Rising

2005
6.5| 2h30m| en| More Info
Released: 12 August 2005 Released
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Country: India
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The film begins in 1857, when India was ruled by the British East India Company. Mangal Pandey is a sepoy, a soldier of Indian origin, in the army of the East India Company. Pandey is fighting in the Anglo-Afghan Wars and saves the life of his British commanding officer, William Gordon. Gordon is indebted to Pandey and a strong friendship develops between them, transcending both rank and race.

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Beanbioca As Good As It Gets
InformationRap This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.
Bumpy Chip It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.
Scarlet The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.
aaronbir 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
jas-hayre 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.
Daljeet Mahal I had very high expectations for this film. I had listened to the music by A.R. Rahman for weeks before it's release, and was excited about many other factors including Aamir Khan's presence, the theme, the fact that it was actually about a revolutionary whose story had not been told earlier, etc.I went to the first show on the Friday that it released. When it started off with the song "mangal mangal mangal," I was elated with the beautiful visuals and I remember thinking, "Here we go, finally a good film after a long time." But it was all down hill from there. After the first half ended, I was extremely disappointed. The excessive emphasis on Rani's role, and that whole aspect of the film regarding prostitutes. Even if this was a part of Mangal's life, it did not need to be given such great focus in the movie. I was really hoping that the second half would get better, because so far, the film had not connected with me on an emotional level, at all. Though the second half did get better, not by much. I didn't understand how there could be so many "holes" in the movie, eg. Amisha's role, how she just disappeared, etc. I mean, don't get me wrong, the film was fine technically, it just wasn't a "solid" film, it lacked that "something." When I left the cinema hall, I felt cheated. The last time I came to see an Aamir Khan film, it was Dil Chahta Hai, now that was a film. This, was just a disappointment. I was expecting a film with a lot of josh, emotion and heart. Hopefully "Rang De Basanti" will make up for this film's lack of...well, that "something", I guess you could call it a soul.
kmukh_73 I was surprised, not only to watch the worst movie ever on the first Revolution of India against the East India Company, but also by the Ketan Mehta and Co. for daring to change the course of history. Well, if this is democracy and right to amend the history, what will the children of tomorrow learn from this movie?Mr. Ketan Mehta should have watched a couple of finest movies on "REVOLUTION". The list should have been THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS, GLORY, or Emir Kusturica's UNDERGROUND.It seems the director and the screenplay writer tried to build on BRAVEHEART and ROBINHOOD: Prince of Thieves, not concentrating on the portraits of the rebellion or revolution but too much on the romance!Every country boasts of their movies for the struggle of Independence, and if this the one we have to boast of, it's really a shame! Where from the character of Rani Mukherjee rise is still an enigma! Are we compelled to bring in romantic songs and dance numbers in a movie which depicts revolution? I doubt the authenticity of the movie script. And it is just that the descendants of Mangal Pandey have files a case against the production of this movie.If they can relate a prostitute with Mangal Pandey, a day will come when we have to see Mahatma Gandhi as a Calvin Klein model, Lala Lajpat Rai as a drunkard and Subhas Bose as Casanova who goes to bar to dance with bar girls!! Who knows what are other reserves!!Isn't this a mockery in the name of independence? Democracy doesn't mean you can do anything else, like changing history. This movie really sucks! Mangal Pandey, thank GOD you are not alive to see it by yourself, at least me and my friends (all Indian) could not!Please, enough is enough, at least Bollywood is good for entertainment, now don't play with the sentiments of Indian Revolution. There are still people alive who fought for the freedom, don't belittle their struggle and pain.Shame on you Mr. Mehta.