Mangal Pandey

Aamir Khan, Amisha Patel, Rani Mukherjee, Kiron Kher, Toby Stephens, Coral Beed, Mona Ambegaonkar, Varsha Usgaonkar, Dibyendu Bhattacharya, Amin Hajee, Mukesh Tiwari, Anupam Shyam, Lalit Tiwari, Shahbaaz Khan, Murli Sharma, Ram Gopal Bajaj, Tom Alter, Sulbha Arya, Rohit Raj, Dinesh Lamba, Richa Sharma, Ravi Jhankal, Kailash Kher, Irfanouzzaman, Om Puri, Pankaj Jha

On the whole, MANGAL PANDEY is a film of epic proportions. A genuine attempt at bringing alive a great hero on celluloid, the film will only bring pride and prestige in the domestic market as well as on the international platform. Read More

With the release of Mangal Pandey: The Rising, Ketan Mehta's historical epic exploring India's First War of Independence in 1857, it's rewind time for Bollywood. Coming from Aamir Khan, the most highly regarded 'actor' among Indian leading men over the last two decades, this is a disaster. Read More

'Mangal Pandey The Rising' is not so much a delineation of the life sketch of the revolutionary martyr Mangal Pandey as it is about the rise of individual and collective consciousness in Indians to wrest back their lost freedom from the colonial British. Read More

A R Rahman's songs though pleasing to the ear with their rustic nature, only jar the narrative further as Mehta and Prasad uninspiringly place them in unwarranted situations. The score too suffers a similar spate due to ineffective usage. Read More

In 'Mangal Pandey' the synthesis is sometimes sythentic, sometimes sympathetic, and occasionally pathetic. That feeling of witnessing a wondrous eruption of a slice of history is sliced into compartmentalized kitsch. A R Rahman's songs don't help stem the tides of disappointment. Read More

Another Bollywood epic steeped in history, this time round colonial cricket is replaced with crooked cartridges in the story of Mangal Pandey (Khan), an ordinary infantryman who rises against the British Empire and single handedly stirs up the first Indian Mutiny of 1857. Read More