Today, is movie screening at our
Department of English of lagan: Once Upon a
Time in India . so, for that here im giving as a feedback of the
watching movie 15.8.2018 after falg hoisting celebration at # administration
bulding Maharaja krashnakumarsihnji Bhavnagar university .
Pro. Dilip Barad Sir ...
Lagaan
(English: Taxation)
(released worldwide as Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India) is a
2001 Indian epic
sports-drama film, directed by Ashutosh Gowariker, produced by Aamir Khan
and Mansoor
Khan, and written by Gowariker and Abbas
Tyrewala. Aamir Khan stars along with debutant Gracy
Singh, with British actors Rachel
Shelley and Paul Blackthorne playing supporting roles. The
film was shot in an ancient village near Bhuj, India. (contributors, 2018)
As
a sports movie, "Lagaan" is dramatized with great élan and suspense…
The setting is historical… The year is 1893… The British Raj imposes heavy taxes on the
poor villagers despite all the problems droughts have caused on their income. An
arrogant army captain— unknown to him that his sister
has fallen in love with a sensitive idealistic— confident
in his countrymen's ability, offers the people relief if they can beat
the fearsome British team at a game of cricket….
2 playing cricket with britishers
Despite its closeness to the conventions, "Lagaan"
proved to be a break-out film… Besides the
graceful and enchanting attractions of the song-and-dance sequences, it
has a plot carefully fashioned to a special kind of audience —audience who likes sports movies… .They are minor characters
compared to the captain's pretty sister (Rachel Shelley), who not only upholds
the British tradition of fair play but also loses her heart to the handsome
Indian hero.
Story line ….
The story started in a small
village of Champaner , where Bhuvan (Aamir Khan) and Gauri (Gracie Singh) are
in a community of poor and innocent farmers who are happily plowing, sowing,
praying for the rains and reaping their harvest. Inspite of such unwanted
circumstances, they are still full of hope.
But then, a British captain, Captain Andrew (Paul Blackthorne), challenges the farmers to a cricket match. He is a capricious character that wants to burden the villagers with a land tax (Lagaan). He waived that there'll be no Lagaan for the next three years and that he'll be the one to pay it from his own pocket. Worst, if they lose, they will pay triple Lagaan for that year. He knows that the villagers are ignorant of the game and its rules. So he's pretty confident that he'll win the game… What he didn't know was that his younger sister, Elizabeth (Rachel Shelley) is completely against his outrageous ideas… Elizabeth's first meeting with Bhuvan already got her attracted to him… Unsuspectingly, all of the villagers knows that she helps them purely out of sympathy…well, I guess it was that way but she fells in love with Bhuvan later on…it just pains me to see that Elizabeth's love for Bhuvan is an unrequited one…she remained Bhuvan's Radha… The cricket match between Indians and British was really superb and very uplifting. Nevertheless, their wit and determination never let go unnoticed. Even the British officers cheered for their victory! It's really a heartwarming story…of Purity in Spirit, Sacrificial Love and that good still prevails..
Aamir Khan has absolutely a god-given talent …simply amazing… he dances like any other talented men I know who perform. He was very good in the role… he looks very appealing especially when Elizabeth imagined him in a princely suit! Gracie Singh looks convincing as Gauri who loves Bhuvan with all her heart. She looks bubbly and cute to me! She displays an excellent facial expression that she can shift from one emotion to another without any difficulty, I guess… They are really perfect for each other… On the other hand, Elizabeth may have love Bhuvan with the same intensity as with Gauri's but I guess, they weren't really meant to be with each other…the rest of the men in Bhuvan's team were also fit for their roles…they never failed to uplift, share their sentiments and inspire me…the British officials showcased a role of fairness…they sympathized and cheered with the villager's victory.
But then, a British captain, Captain Andrew (Paul Blackthorne), challenges the farmers to a cricket match. He is a capricious character that wants to burden the villagers with a land tax (Lagaan). He waived that there'll be no Lagaan for the next three years and that he'll be the one to pay it from his own pocket. Worst, if they lose, they will pay triple Lagaan for that year. He knows that the villagers are ignorant of the game and its rules. So he's pretty confident that he'll win the game… What he didn't know was that his younger sister, Elizabeth (Rachel Shelley) is completely against his outrageous ideas… Elizabeth's first meeting with Bhuvan already got her attracted to him… Unsuspectingly, all of the villagers knows that she helps them purely out of sympathy…well, I guess it was that way but she fells in love with Bhuvan later on…it just pains me to see that Elizabeth's love for Bhuvan is an unrequited one…she remained Bhuvan's Radha… The cricket match between Indians and British was really superb and very uplifting. Nevertheless, their wit and determination never let go unnoticed. Even the British officers cheered for their victory! It's really a heartwarming story…of Purity in Spirit, Sacrificial Love and that good still prevails..
Aamir Khan has absolutely a god-given talent …simply amazing… he dances like any other talented men I know who perform. He was very good in the role… he looks very appealing especially when Elizabeth imagined him in a princely suit! Gracie Singh looks convincing as Gauri who loves Bhuvan with all her heart. She looks bubbly and cute to me! She displays an excellent facial expression that she can shift from one emotion to another without any difficulty, I guess… They are really perfect for each other… On the other hand, Elizabeth may have love Bhuvan with the same intensity as with Gauri's but I guess, they weren't really meant to be with each other…the rest of the men in Bhuvan's team were also fit for their roles…they never failed to uplift, share their sentiments and inspire me…the British officials showcased a role of fairness…they sympathized and cheered with the villager's victory.
Figure 3 waiting for rain first time in the movie ....
Here we also find some point to ponder to looking or I can
say the opration ( opening different views to the movie )
Points….
to ……..ponder…….
Patriotism
lagaan, under a delicately layered text, uses the game of
cricket between two incredibly unmatched teams pitted against each other to
demonstrate a young man’s pride in being Indian. The rulers are pitted against
the ruled in an unfair game thrown as a challenge to a small group of villagers
who do not even know the name of the game. For the British team, it is a matter
of racial and colonial pride. For the villagers of the fictitious Champaran, it
is a war of life and death. For if they win, they live. If they lose, they die
of starvation. The music in both Gadar and Lagaan function as metaphors of
resistance, of love, of war, of triumph in the climax. Gadar is one man’s
mission. In Lagaan, the one man who picks up the gauntlet cannot perform
without the active support of the rest of the village folk and even the people
of the neighbouring villages. The game of cricket, as they learn it from a
white woman – a cinematic convenience to rule out any possible British uproar
–wipes away their personal conflicts, their ego fights, even their differences
of caste, class and community.
Teamwork and leadership
LEADERSHIP:Analyzing Bhuvan (The Hero- leader):
In order to analyze the character of
Bhuvan I begin with identifying qualities andcharacteristics
which highlight him as person who is capable of leading
.1. Good communication skill
Communication is
the key to be a great leader. The reason for this is simple: if hepossesses
the other leadership qualities but if he fails to communicate well, he will
never be great leader.Bhuvan always was
very clear in his communication be it his resistance toadditional tax burden or his cherished hope of
winning and being exempt from the tax
2. Honesty
The most valuable asset of a leader is honesty. He
must always be honest. Another part of
his features is integrity. Once a leader compromises his or her integrity, it
is lost.That is perhaps the reason integrity is considered the most admirable
trait. The leaderstherefore must keep it "above all else."Bhuvan
throughout maintained his honesty andintegrity.
3. Ability to
motivate people around
A good leader must always keep motivating his team
mates for good work andshould maintain healthy environment.Bhuvan succeeded in
competing with his full team of eleven players even though hestarted alone
initially.
Post colonialism
Metaphor of Cricket
Cast system
The movie also had a strong message about equality of castes, an issue that continues to plague India. The main character adds an untouchable onto his team for the untouchable’s skill at throwing the ball, despite the very strong resistance of the rest of the team. Unfortunately, the untouchable (Kachra) didn’t seem to play that well. Somehow, despite his skill at throwing the ball the British were able to always hit it; also at the end of the movie, he apparently failed to hit the ball when a lot was riding on his ability to do so. (A note of caution: apparently Wikipedia says that he was more of a service to the team than my recollection of the movie).
In any case, it seemed that despite the movie’s vocal advocacy of equality of castes, the person of lowest caste was still treated somewhat poorly. This is especially true given that an upper-caste person advocates for Kachra; why didn’t the untouchable advocate for himself? Or why wasn’t Kachra a main character rather than a mere side character? One guesses that having an untouchable as a protagonist in a Bollywood movie would be like having an Asian as a protagonist in a Hollywood movie; unheard of!
It was also interesting to see the United Kingdom portrayed as the bad guys. Most Americans are used to seeing the British as those tea-drinking people with funny accents. A lot of the scenes in which the British generals abuse the Indian farmers in Lagaan are not meant to be humorous. But for me, at least, (with the influence of American culture) it was sometimes hard to fully square the fact that British people with their funny accents could be evil. I say this with lightheartedness, but it does reflect the strength of American perceptions of the United Kingdom.
Nevertheless, there was one fact that did bother me: seeing the British flag fly over places where it definitely should not have been flying. To see a battalion of soldiers march into an Indian village, proudly flying the British flag, was quite disconcerting. So was seeing a British general with no knowledge of India talk proudly of India being Britain’s. What in the world was Great Britain doing there? How did what was happening in India have anything to do with Great Britain? To have the British flag over so many places where it had no business being seemed quite unnatural. It brought home the fact that Great Britain should not have ruled over so many peoples that it had no connection to nor empathy with.
Works Cited
contributors, W. (2018, aug. 10). Lagaan.
Retrieved from Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia.
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