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Lagaan Movie Review

 On the Independence day 2018. We watched Hindi movie Lagaan at the Department of English,  MKBU . Before the screening  Sir has told us that ..’I hope you keep your eyes open and read what is between the lines and hidden within the images So, I tried my best to read most of scenes of the movie and  my views on it are expressed here… Lagaan , a popular   Bollywood  movie produced and star by Amir Khan , directed by Ashutosh Gowarikar won the audience award at the 2001..movie’s cinematography set in Gujarat and film have melodies song with an excellent story plot. Narrative style of movie is very much linear Or very much Indian style of narrative so  Lagaan also repeats the popular motif of Bollywood movies … the defeat of British Colonial rules at the hands of Indians, but situates the struggle for decolonization on apparently mutually exclusive domains— Cricket , an ‘Elite’ sport, and subaltern politics. Thus, movie as a national allegory in whi...