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The Rising: Ballad of Mangal Pandey Story |
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1857 AD. The entire Indian sub continent is ruled by a company. The
British East India Company. The most successful business enterprise in
history. The company has its own laws, its own administration, its own
army. It controls the destiny of one fifth of humanity. Mangal Pandey -
The Rising is an epic tale of friendship, betrayal, love and sacrifice
set against the backdrop of what the British called the sepoy mutiny
but which for the Indians was the First War of Independence. 'Company
Raj' as it was known, had been plundering the country, treating the
locals unjustly and causing widespread resentment. After a hundred
years of subjugation, the Indian consciousness is rising through the
revolutionary prospect of change and self-rule. During a fierce battle
in one of the Afgan wars that the Company fought in the mid-century,
Mangal Pandey (Aamir Khan), the heroic sepoy, saves the life of his
British commanding officer William Gordon (Toby Stephens). Gordon is
indebted to Mangal and a strong friendship develops between them,
transcending consideration of rank and race. The friendship is soon
challenged by the introduction of a new rifle called the Enfield . The
new rifle has come with a new cartridge which is rumored to be coated
with the grease of cow and pig fat. The new cartridge has to be bitten
before it is loaded, which ignites anger and resentment among the
Indian sepoys. The cow is sacred to the Hindus, the pig forbidden to
the Muslims. They will not touch such a kartoos (gun cartridge), it
would defile them. Set in one of the most beautiful countries on earth,
told across the divides of time, Mangal Pandey - The Rising tells the
tale of friends, lovers and enemies, exploiters and exploited, and the
growth and awareness of a man and a nation. It is a story of one man
and his dream of freedom. This sweeping epic is based on real
historical events, seen as a trigger for Indian independence
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