Innumerable spices are heaped on the storyline and, thus, for many people they are an acquired taste. Drama, comedy, vast musical numbers, romance, war, faith, intimate relationships. Indian movies, like Indian subcontinent and Indian food, throw everything into the plot. (H, PC, Pa, B, M) Ultimately humanist worldview with revolutionary Communist undertone about villagers uniting to overthrow the oppressor and, in the process, bringing together Indian Muslims, Hindus, Sikhs, and untouchables who at best disdain each other and at worse hate each other, strangely combined with appeals to a sovereign God, prayers in the name of Allah and a lengthy focus on the local village Hindu temple containing statues of Krishna and his adulterous consort, Radhu, both of whom, it should be noted, in Hindu mythology are married to other people (the plight of Krishna and Radhu are reflected in the unrequited relationship between the British commander’s sister and the village hero, and the sister even succumbs to Hindu religious markings) 21 obscenities and three missuses of God's name and lots of appeals to God, which can either be construed as exclamations or curses some graphic violence with a British soldier beating and kicking an Indian worker and several instances of British soldiers crippling or hurting Indians and the threat of a lynch mob lots of romantic scenes but nothing salacious upper male nudity and some skimpy costumes but, again, nothing salacious minor alcohol use several possibilities of smoking hallucinogens and, cruelty, oppression, starvation, and revenge. To achieve its goals, however, LAGAAN reduces the British to the same type of stereotypes that they used to reduce the Indians and even extols the Hinduism which has kept the country in bondage for centuries. The writer of LAGAAN deserves commendation for the way he seamlessly brought together all the elements of Indian filmmaking and used them to tell a powerful, but simple, story. It refutes the caste system and the religious divisions which have crippled India for so many years. LAGAAN is worth watching for the cultural insights it gives into Indian culture. If they lose, they have to pay triple the taxes. If they win, the villagers won’t have to pay the taxes for three years. One day, he incenses the British commander, who challenges the villagers to a cricket game. One villager, played by Aamir Khan, takes pleasure in standing up to the British. The villagers chafe under the high taxes, or lagaan, that the British charge for protecting them. Set in 1893, it tells the true story of a little village protected by a British military compound. LAGAAN is an Indian movie nominated for Best Foreign Language Academy Award.
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