| Lagaan - Once Upon a Time in India | 
| Director: Ashutosh Gowariker
Actors: Aamir Khan, Gracy Singh, Rachel Shelley, Paul Blackthorne, Suhasini Mulay
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:   (189 reviews)
Sales Rank: 4629
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dvd-video, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Portuguese (Subtitled), Georgian (Subtitled), Chinese (Subtitled), Thai (Subtitled), English (Original Language)
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD
Running Time: 225 minutes
Number Of Items: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.1 x 0.6
ISBN: 0767883608
UPC: 043396079618
EAN: 9780767883603
ASIN: B00005U124
Release Date: January 22, 2002
Theatrical Release Date: May 8, 2002
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Would you believe the most enchanting musical of the year is an almost four-hour-long epic about a ragtag group of 19th-century Indian farmers who form a cricket team to take on an arrogant British captain? The old-fashioned Hollywood musical is alive and well in India's Bollywood industry, where the joyful explosion of music and dance and innocent romance abounds in sweeping epics. In this infectious tale of bloodless revolution, the underdog outcasts and oddballs of a fractured village pull together into a unified team to take on the oppressive colonial Brits at their own game. Think The Longest Yard meets The Seven Samurai by way of Rudyard Kipling, with cricket bats, choreographed dance numbers, romantic triangles, and a rousing call to solidarity. There are no surprises, but what spirit, what color, what good fun! --Sean Axmaker
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 Lagaan:Once Upon a Time in India January 6, 2009
We've seen this movie many years ago and enjoyed it so much.We purchase a copy from "Amazon" which does not work on our DVD player or others we've tried out. Not really happy about that. Be careful what's advertised vs. what you buy. The Movie is 5-6 stars. Don't miss it!
Different but great movie December 23, 2008
It is all said in the other reviews. I just want to add weight to the encouragement to try this movie-even if the cricket sounds boring.
I'm not a sports fan but I found the cricket in this rivetting as it is more about personalities and dramatic tension.
Aamir Khan is superb but then so are all the Indian actors. The British are a mix: some good and some having an odd inflection to their English.
A.A. Rahman's score was engaging enough that I bought the CD. There are some catchy tuned but not in an 'in your face' kind of way' (though I like those too). The dancing is a bit more to the traditional.
It is a thoughtful political piece as much as anything about a clash of cultures and some of the dubious styles of British governance that I know are well-documented elsewhere (though I know the British weren't all-bad nor the local rulers all-good as you almost have stereotyped here).
THis is well worth seeing and stays with you. A favorite.
 Not as Advertised November 30, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This may be a wonderful movie. However, it's advertised as an English language film. It's not. It's in Hindi.
This DVD is in PAL format September 6, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Even though it explicitly states near the top of this page that this DVD is in NTSC format, it is not. It is in PAL format, which does not play at all on most DVD players/televisions in the United States.
 As a sports movie, "Lagaan" is dramatized with great elan and suspense... August 7, 2008
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...
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...
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