![]() ![]() The result is a four-hour musical with only six songs, amounting to only 30 minutes of music. It's as if Gowariker tried to cram three movies - Gandhi, Gigi, and Cool Runnings - into one massive omni-film. In addition to being a crowd-pleasing musical, Lagaan is also a historical epic, a romantic drama, and a ragtag-underdog-sports-team-comes-from-behind-and-wins movie. But its popularity was due less to originality than to director Ashutosh Gowariker's skillful manipulation of several familiar screenplay formulas. ![]() ![]() Lagaan was one of the most internationally successful films produced by India's Bollywood industry, and also the first to be nominated for a foreign-language Oscar.
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