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Mangal Pandey (2005)
6/10
Outstanding performance by Aamir Kahan, in an otherwise very ordinary movie
6 May 2006
It is natural for people to expect this movie to be in the league of the super-hit 'Lagaan' - but for them, I hate to say that they are going to be in for a big disappointment. Aamir Khan's performance in this movie, as I mentioned in the title, justifies his position as one of the best actors in the world - he gave 100% effort into it as always. Unfortunately, that is the only positive side to it.

It seemed to me that the whole movie revolved around Aamir, and all the others were mere puppets. Also, in my opinion, the friendship between Aamir & Toby was unnecessarily exaggerated, when it should have been portrayed in a much more professional manner - friendship is always built upon mutual respect and admiration for each other & not by wrestling, getting drunk & singing songs! Perhaps the film makers should have focused on this more, and less on the pointless roles of Rani Mukherjee & Amisha Patel.

All-in-all if you are a die-hard Aamir Khan fan who doesn't expect too much from the script of his movies, you will enjoy watching this one. But don't think that this will be anywhere near Oscar material, as it definitely isn't.
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10/10
Bad story, but excellent soundtrack
6 April 2006
This could easily go down as one of the early 90s Tamil movies that had a terrible story and would have easily bombed in the box-office, but was single-handedly rescued by the music director A.R.Rahman. I agree the movie was thrilling and had a lot of action packed in it, but all the key elements of a good Indian masala movie such as mystery, adventure, action and romance, though present in this movie, were not organized properly. In my opinion, the sole reason why people even came to the theaters to watch it was to listen to the music, as opposed to watching the movie itself. I would rate the soundtrack as one of Rahman's finest ever, in addition to Roja, Kadhalan and Rangeela.
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