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However, changes were made during production, and Mukerji’s role was expanded to include a romantic angle with Aamir Khan’s character.

Germany and Japan are still constantly reminded of the atrocities their countries committed, but we have to go back a bit earlier to look at the British East India Company - the most successful business enterprise in history, controlling one fifth of humanity, and having its own army. Most characters seem under-developed; even Mangal Pandey's character could have been developed much better.

Why, then, did I like the film, inspite of so many flaws?

To both Mehta and Dhondy's credit, all this is shown without sounding like a boring documentary or a history lesson. Himman Dhamija's dazzling camera-work and Nitin Desai's impeccable art direction take you back in time and convince that you are in 1857. At the end, I left the theatre satisfied. Action sequences by Abbas Ali Moghul are aptly designed.

We see the story through the eyes of Mangal and his superior officer William Gordon (Toby Stephens), who share a deep friendship. “This film is not anti-British,” Khan stated. This paper argues that concerns over the film, as with 1857 itself, speak of an unresolved question of Indian democracy, i e, whether the two domains of Indian democracy, comprising the "elite" and the "subaltern", can ever combine to produce a "politics of the people".

you know who I mean. As per my movie experience goes this is a kind of movies that will grow on any one after every subsequent viewing.