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Mangal Pandey - The Rising

Language: Hindi

Critic Rating: 2.0 stars (2.0/5)

Release Year: 2005

Cast: Aamir Khan, Rani Mukherjee, Amisha Patel, Toby Stephens, Coral Beed

Producer: Bobby Bedi, Deepa Sahi

Director: Ketan Mehta

Music Director: A. R. Rahman

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Synopsis

The Rising is an epic tale of friendship, love, loss and betrayal set against the backdrop of the Indian Mutiny of 1857. British colonial rulers are plundering the country for all its worth, treating the locals unjustly and causing widespread resentment. Worst of all they are using the Indians as sepoys, the infantry of the army, to control and regulate the population.
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You have to hand it to Aamir Khan. He does deliver a "polished" performance. From head to toe, he's tanned in what looks like a light shade of boot polish to play that marvel from the freedom movement, Mangal Pandey, who, it is rightly believed, pion
By Subhash K Jha, Aug 13 2005  2 Stars
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Music Review
When it comes to projecting periodicity, A.R. Rahman is next to none. His stronghold over the language and sign codes of a specific ambience creates a heartland of emotions in lyrical form.

The inspirational title song in "Mangal Pandey" may compare unfavourably with Rahman's similar tracks in other period films like "Chale chalo" in "Lagaan" or "Sarfaroshi ki tamanna" in "The Legend Of Bhagat Singh". But the title track has a grainy feeling of an impending conflagration.

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