Rating: TBC.Duration: 142 mins.
Genre: Festival & Foreign, Bollywood.
Actors: Toby Stephens, Aamir Khan, Rani Mukerji, Ameesha Patel, Kiron Kher.
Release Date: October 11th.
Mangal Pandey is the true story of a little known Indian revolutionary who changed the course of history. 90 years before Ghandi bought independence to India. Pandey started the journey by standing up to the might East India Company and igniting one of histories bloodiest revolutions.
It’s a fascinating movie of a time when a British company ruled the entire Indian subcontinent with an iron first and a focus on profit at any cost. Where the local population was used not only to grow the desired crop (poppies for opium) but also formed the main part of the army used to keep the sub continent under control, and to take over new territories at the whim of the company.
All the while the company treated the people as second-class citizens, not caring for their livelihood, or their faith. The breaking point came when new rifles were introduced with cartridges that required you to ‘bite the bullet’. But with the manufacturing process requiring pig and cow fats, this didn’t sit well with either Muslims or the Hindus.
All in all Mangal Pandey is an epic story of friendship amidst the struggle for nationhood, with plenty of the strangely fitting Bollywood dance scenes!
Food for thought:
Would you bite the bullet or tale a stand for your beliefs?
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