Decent Movie., but wondering what went into 4 years of it's making.
1)There is no epic proportion drama 2)The character is not real, the village, the look & the love triangle all cooked up (bollywood eh?) 3)There are no war sequences 4)No story which could encompass the period of history 5)Too many songs, yet again (will our directors ever understand?) 6)Too much emphasis on "kartoos" pig & cow ... 7)poor dialogues, uninspirational at times when war is about to begin 8)Bad cinematography 9)Music for the first time by ar rahman is uninspirational. 10) After 18 reels, I don't think anyone in the theatre felt patriotic enough to fel bad about or feel proud about.
Mangal Pandey - who?
In short its just an instance of kartoos & its attached melodrama coupled with songs & mangal pandey fighting for it. The rising almost looks like a short story/chapter from a history book than an epic. One would expect more from Amir & a 4 yr production work (not to mention 1 yr post production). Songs were unnecessary & the dialogues were uninspirational too. (imagine mangal pandey shouting all to 'raise' for a war by saying "chalo chalo" )
But yeah, Amir did an honest job & so did Toby but then history should have more drama & war & bloody gore to show an impact as powerful as it should have been. At the end of the movie I did not feel a thing for Mangal Pandey or India, perhaps this is why I couldn't appreciate the movie so well.
Talking of two recent movies - Bhagath Singh & Swades at least questioned my patriotism. That, I think is a great success!
1)There is no epic proportion drama 2)The character is not real, the village, the look & the love triangle all cooked up (bollywood eh?) 3)There are no war sequences 4)No story which could encompass the period of history 5)Too many songs, yet again (will our directors ever understand?) 6)Too much emphasis on "kartoos" pig & cow ... 7)poor dialogues, uninspirational at times when war is about to begin 8)Bad cinematography 9)Music for the first time by ar rahman is uninspirational. 10) After 18 reels, I don't think anyone in the theatre felt patriotic enough to fel bad about or feel proud about.
Mangal Pandey - who?
In short its just an instance of kartoos & its attached melodrama coupled with songs & mangal pandey fighting for it. The rising almost looks like a short story/chapter from a history book than an epic. One would expect more from Amir & a 4 yr production work (not to mention 1 yr post production). Songs were unnecessary & the dialogues were uninspirational too. (imagine mangal pandey shouting all to 'raise' for a war by saying "chalo chalo" )
But yeah, Amir did an honest job & so did Toby but then history should have more drama & war & bloody gore to show an impact as powerful as it should have been. At the end of the movie I did not feel a thing for Mangal Pandey or India, perhaps this is why I couldn't appreciate the movie so well.
Talking of two recent movies - Bhagath Singh & Swades at least questioned my patriotism. That, I think is a great success!