Mangal pandey the Rising ! By ketan Mehta 3 / 10
Amir khan , Rani , Ameesha Patel , toby Stephen, kiron kher !
narrated by om puri
Mutiny of 1857 turns into a Bollywood mockery by ketan Mehta
this is about the mutiny of 1857 , if you want to see why it failed just see this movie it shows how retarded indians were then , it’s more empathetic to English trapped in India than the mutineers who look like marauding thugs !
This is a joke with most perverse music and hysterical characters and terrible patriotic songs , and even casting is a mess ,first amir cast aishwaria , after she broke with salman all khans boycotted her , so amrita was cast , she is playing an Indian widow saved from sati and romances captain Gordon , with a north indian accent she simply cannot act , the whole event of her being rescued is hilariously badly filmed !
the east india company must have had it so easy with idiots like amir employed as mangal pandey by the company commanders mostly Zionists ,in one sequence mangal fights a kabadi with captain Gordon his friend whose life he saves in the afghan campaign , showing the English were fair , the captain who opposes him looks more convincing in the match than amir khan !
Gordon is a lower cast English man and he is anti English himself which is hard to believe!
Amir plays the role with a moustache that covers his entire face so no problem either with expressions being any problem!
The company supplies its white officers with sex slave girls bought in public auction and Rani is bought by kiron kher a brothel mistress who turns her into a sex machine !
But she won’t have sex with white officers and ends up being saved by our hero amir khan !
movie is simply terribly directed by ketan Mehta, its got continuity problems throuhout , only its better than Devgan horror bhagat singh ,that is the most boring historic ever made , this is total rubbish which is unable to show why the mutiny happened! ‘
The cartridge affair is briefly shown and entangled with opium export to China ! Indians are shown as pimps on sale to highest bidders and they are a rabble with no character no wonder English as a disciplined race were able to rule them !
The idea of using pig and cow fat in cartridges is trivial when the Indian soldiers are killing fellow Indian children and women the cartridges make no sense and I think it was not the real reason behind mutiny this was only an excuse to bring India under empire itself !
Ketan Mehta does not go into any detail or depth just the same old repetitive nonsense and brings nothing to the absurd tale of mutiny itself !
One song dance with gypsy nocturnal party ambience and seduction sequences is good rest of soundtrack is a waste by mr Rahman ! The holi song is simply terrible so is the Muslim qawali at a shrine ! How this transpired Is a team failure no one seems interested and script is incoherent and dialogues are simply dumb !
rani is a tawaif who loves amir as the great Indian revolutionary ,she spies for him as she sleeps with white english soldiers as a patriotic duty , they keep singing pointless songs on elephants for no reason ,acting is over the top and every single character shouts and distorts their faces ,
its this era in bollywood where overacting was considered good acting , now they simply dont act at all just look at their cothes and hairstyles and the results show on screen , but its really sad to make a great indian hero look like a clown and amir succeeded in doing so ,the history is incorrect , whole meerut revolt distorted , and the actresses are terrible , why will a memsaab from england love a bloody revolutionary , same bullshit as in lagaan , they call amir perfectionist , / what does he do to deserve the title of mr perfectionist , i will be damned lmao , indians have the most weird marketing campaigns ,he is not a fraction of dilip , Ashok , Dev , Rajesh khanna , Raj kumar even Naseer or Nana Patekar !
the director is an absolute failure he never made a great bmovie despite best castsand budgets and not a single hit , at least the english aristocrats could be depicted better , its to be noted english were always religious they say they rule india by will of lord almighty
the english speak terrible urdu , i think they actually spoke good urdu , victoria could write urdu and recited koran too , she gave orders all english had to learn urdu , but here company is a clown , they even show the anglo afghan wars just to show hindus were not only anglo foes so were afghandus , and afghans are not even accepted by pakitan today ,they are a feudal tribal society and not really muslim but more barbaric than even somalis
amir has problems delivering three lines together , he can give three expressions , he is worst of the three khans , both salman shahrukh can act , only time amir acted is in raakh , earth and his two manisha movies , here he is strictly playing a hindu extremist who hates english like in lagaan , i