Reached home just now after watching the movie Mangal Pandey, lot of hype, lot of expectations and in the end you come out with kind of sad face…

That’s what had happened with me…

The story

Director Ketan Mehta sweeps you back to 1857 when India was still grappling under the might of the East India Company. Indian soldiers spread across the country fought wars for the British in mute silence, despite living in penury themselves.

Mangal Pandey (Aamir Khan) is just another sepoy, ready to lay down his life for the force. His best friend is a white man, Gordon (Toby Stephens), whose life Mangal has saved during a battle in Afghanistan.

The problems begin when the British introduce a new rifle, which has its cartridges smeared with animal fat. Mangal and his entire regiment revolt against the new cartridges on religious grounds.

What begins as a mere rebellion against artillery eventually translates into a nationwide movement. Mangal Pandey is punished for his actions and subsequently hanged but he succeeds in laying down the foundation for an upcoming freedom struggle.

The story taken from Mid Day

My Review

I didn’t find the movie that good, the main flaws of the movies were, too many songs which were stuffed everywhere unnecessarily and unnecessary scenes. Sometime you feel like…what the hell is happening…the story was going on well and suddenly some song starts for no reason….

And apart from the songs they had tried to put some masala in the movie too…i.e. by adding kind of vulgarity…specially in the beginning of the movie when Kiron Kher meets Rani Mukherjee for the first time…the dress she was wearing…it was like she was trying to expose at this age, 2nd one was song Rasiya….I had no idea what two females were trying to do…it was like they were dancing in some dance bar haha….

There was also no need to show the kissing scene between Amisha Patel and Toby Stephens…these are things which acts as hurdle in the movie…

People went for this movie keeping patriotic theme in their mind but when they watched the movie, they find that it’s a mixture of patriotism and masala which lends up in creating a mess…

But there are plus points of the movie too…specially the relationship between Mangal Pandey (Amir Khan) and William Gordon (Toby Stephens), Amir Khan’s acting….but apart from that there is nothing much to look for in the movie…

So in short, movie is worth watching on DVD or VCD but no need to pay a visit to the theatre…

I give 2 stars out of 5