So I haven’t seen Mangal Pandey : The Rising yet, but I shall educate and illuminate you with my commentary. Because it is good that way.
The Captain Gordon guy in the movie by Toby I-share-my-name-with-a-Dog-and the-kid-who-plays-Spidey Stephens is so blatantly a character meant to be nothing more than a white guy friendly face. I don’t buy his role as a necessary plot progression element. He is in the movie so’s white guys will not feel offended when they see this extremely inaccurate historical movie.
Also, if Aamir Khan is such a perfectionist, why is he not bald with a small choti in his head, like a PANDEY at that time would have been?
ab
8/18/2005 at 4:58 am
But but … I hear that Toby I-share-my-name-with-a-Dog-and the-kid-who-plays-Spidey Stephens has a meatier role than the Khan in the movie. Not true?
sam
8/18/2005 at 5:24 am
Very true. But that still doesn’t mean this was not a clever ploy on the fimmakers’ part to include foriegn audiences more effectively.
Sushubh
8/19/2005 at 5:02 pm
the problem with the movie si that their is little written about the guy. they could not have made a movie with just the five minute sequence which is actually known about the guy. the movie begins with the message that a lot of fictional stuff has been added to spice things up…
sam
8/21/2005 at 10:36 pm
ah, so. I don’t have a problem with adding stuff as long as it is made explicit that that’s what it is.