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1857 THE RISING IS THE NEXT MOVIE IN WHICH AAMIR KHAN IS STARRING, FOR WHICH HE HAS GROWN HIS HAIR AND MOUSTACHE. THIS
STORY IS ABOUT MANGAL PANDEY A FIRST FREEDOM FIGHTER OF INDIA. STORY BEGIN WITH MANGAL PANDEY AS A INDIAN SOLDIER WORKING
FOR EAST INDIA COMPANY. HE SAVES A BRITISH COMMANDER IN AFGHAN WAR AND FROM THERE BOTH OF THEM BECOMES FRIEND. MANGAL PANDEY
REVOLT AGAINST HTE EAST INDIA COMPANY AUTHORITY WHEN THEY FORCE INDIAN SOLDIER TO GRACE THE BULLET WITH THE MOUTH WHICH WAS
MADE FROM COW SKIN, SINCE MANGAL PANDEY WAS A BRAHMIN HE DID NOT ACCEPTED THE ORDER AND IN RETURN REVOLTED AGAINST THE BRITISHER,
FROM THAT POINT CONFLICT BETWEEN HIS FRIEND START.IT ENDS WITH MANGAL PANDEY BEING HANGED.
| 1857 The Rising (2005) |
Directed by : Ketan Mehta
Producer : Bobby Bedi
Music : A. R. Rahman
Tagline: 1857
The Rising |
CAST
Aamir Khan - Mangal Rani Mukerji - Rani Amisha Patel - Jwala Toby Stephens - William
Gordon Coral Beed - Emily |
Runtime: India:Unknown min
Country: India
Language: Hindi
Color:
Color |
Summary: Story Highlight
The Rising is an epic tale of friendship, love,
loss and betrayal set against the backdrop of the Indian Mutiny of 1857. This sweeping epic is based on real historical events,
seen as a trigger for Indian independence. It has been filmed in India over 6 months with a mix of British and Indian cast.
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.
After a hundred years of subjugation, India is awakening to the revolutionary prospect of change and self-rule.
During
a fierce battle in the Afghan wars of the mid-century, Mangal (Aamir Khan), a heroic sepoy rescues his British commanding
officer William Gordon (Toby Stephens). The event creates a strong friendship and binding loyalty between them that transcends
consideration of rank and race.
The friendship is soon challenged, first by arrival of a charming and beautiful young
aristocrat, Emily Kent (Coral Beed), and then by the introduction of controversial new gun cartridges among the troops. The
relationship is complicated further when Gordon saves a beautiful young native girl, Jwala (Amisha Patel), from the funeral
pyre of her late husband, and falls in love with her.
The new cartridges require soldiers to bite through their greased
casing, made of animal fat, and suspicion spreads that the British are ignoring religious beliefs in favor of cheap weapons,
and polluting their Muslim and Hindu soldiers. Gordon assures Mangal that the cartridges are free from pollution and demonstrating
his total trust in Gordon, Mangal bites the cartridge. They soon discover that it really is animal fat and the rumor of this
imposed pollution is the spark that ignites the powder keg of resentment in the country. Mutiny breaks out with Mangal growing
in stature to lead the Indian people to freedom.
Set in one of the most beautiful countries on earth, told across
the divides of time, The Rising tells the tale of friends, lovers and enemies, exploiters and exploited, and the growth and
awareness of a man and a nation. |
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