Review: Mangal Pandey The Rising

Just finished watching 'The Rising' starring Amir Khan. Had a lot of expectations because of huge publicity of the movie and being Amir's movie after a long while.

What I can say that I am very disappointed by the movie. This movie had a subject which really has the ability to touch people of India but alas! everything was ruined by the moviemakers making the movie just another Hindi Masala movie and losing all the essence. Only delight in movie was performance by Amir and the British officer who acts as his friend in the movie. Nobody can ever understand what was the need to include Amisha and Rani Mukherjee in the movie, which certainly diverted the movie from its basic story. The charachter of Mangal Pandey could have been elaborated in much better way. The movie does not deal at all with the aftermath of Mangal Pandey's hanging. I think the movie makers were very much insecure that seem to be the reason they included all that unnecessary stuff.

What made me more disappointed is the fact that this had been movie by Amir in last four years. It can't even be compared with 'Lagaan' which made its way all through to Oscars. Even 'Swades' although not very successful was a much better movie, at least it dealt with the story of the movie sophistically.

So my rating to the movie id ***.