on a lazy sunday evening, bored with the internet i was channel hopping on TV and happened to stumble upon the movie "Lagaan" playing on one of the channels and i caught on. Ofcourse I have watched it many times before but guess thats the point i am trying to make.
Anyways, I got watching and thats when i began thinking that this is such a good movie!! And also the great work Aamir had done first acting in it and then also believing in it enough to produce it himself, which also got me thinking about his contribution to modern day hindi cinema through movies like this, Taare Zameen Par etc. Guess that can be a topic in itself for another day.
So yeah Lagaan - it is a nice heart warming story, set in this pre-independent village in India with its own charm. The accentuated language, the typical "issues" some of which are prevalent even today - like untouchability etc, the movie also i think has a great look and A R Rahman's music is out of the world. And the theme of the story itself - the story of hope and winning against odds. I personally am a sucker for under dog triumphs and thats the biggest reason i love this movie. And to add all this, this is one of the very rare instances of India's two greatest passions - bollywood and cricket combining so beautifully and successfully. This was released in June 2001 by the way, and I am sure quite a few of you will relate to watching it in theaters as students with ur college gang and having a ball when the match begins!! I also googled for the reviews the movie got when it released (before it became such a huge hit) and none of them seem to have anticipated the impact that this one would go on to have. Some reviews even ridiculed it on quite a few factors. But boy, did they have to eat their words!!!!
At close to 4 hrs it is awfully long though, which doesn't seem to go well with me these days due to apparent lack of patience to sit through 5 hrs (including the ads on TV). Lets see how much of it i will catch today, but this one sure goes into my collections!
PS: Man, been so long since i blogged, i sure need some discipline in my life!!! guess will try writing short pieces from now on, till i really build some patience to write long posts.
