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- Lagaan tells the story of a group of Indian villagers who challenge their British rulers to a game of cricket as a means to escape from paying exorbitant taxes (lagaan). The film explores themes of unity, perseverance, and the power of sports to bring people together.
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Plot. The farmers of the village of Champaner, in the British Central India Agency, live under an oppressive and racist regime, paying land tax (lagaan) despite poverty and an irregular harvest caused by drought. Unable to bear the burden, they ask the king, Raja Puran Singh, for relief from lagaan.
Jun 7, 2002 · Set in India in 1893, it combines sports with political intrigue, romance with evil scheming, musical numbers with low comedy and high drama, and is therefore soundly in the tradition of the entertainments produced by the Bombay film industry, “Bollywood,” which is the world’s largest.
Mar 14, 2023 · One of the joys of growing up in middle-class India in the 1990s was the inherent idealism of colony cricket. What started as a character-building outdoor activity soon morphed into an ultra-competitive cultural universe. The inter-colony summer leagues became a stepping stone to coaching camps, bragging rights and pincode fame.
Jun 15, 2021 · Lagaan’s brilliance was in its plot’s simplicity, along with the theme of the common man’s fight for justice and against an unjust ruler. The movie, which had one of the best performances of Bollywood’s Mr Perfection, was quite an inspirational work.
Sometime during latter half of the 19th century, a small village in North India is facing drought conditions. Captain Andrew Russell, the British captain of the nearby cantonment, demands double of the usual land tax (lagaan) from the villagers.
Jun 19, 2022 · From the archives (2001): How Aamir Khan's epic 'Lagaan' was made. Aamir Khan and the crew of Lagaan recently celebrated 21 years of the path-breaking movie. A peep into the INDIA TODAY archives on how the film was conceived and put together. Listen to Story.
Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India: Directed by Ashutosh Gowariker. With Aamir Khan, Gracy Singh, Rachel Shelley, Paul Blackthorne. The people of a small village in Victorian India stake their future on a game of cricket against their ruthless British rulers.
