 The Rising is an epic tale of friendship, love, loss and betrayal set against the backdrop of the Indian Mutiny of 1857. After a hundred years of subjugation, India is awakening to the revolutionary prospect of change and self-rule. This sweeping epic is based on real historical events, seen as a trigger for Indian independence
Genre: Drama / History
Length: 150 min
(2005) - Aamir Khan, Rani Mukherjee, Toby Stephens, Amisha Patel
Mangal Pandey : The Rising
Summary Mangal Pandey is an Indian sepoy serving Britain's East India Company. Mangal rescues his commanding officer William Gordon on the battlefields of Afghanistan and the two men develop a friendship. The story takes a turn when the British introduce a new set of rifles. To use them, the sepoys are required to bite the bullet. The paper cartridges encasing the gunpowder contain beef and pig fat. Neither Hindu nor Muslim soldiers are prepared to use the new cartridge on religious grounds. Trusting Gordon that the cartridges do not use beef and pig fat, Mangal bites the bullet, but when the sepoys learn the truth, Mangal revolts and leads a rebellion that sows the seeds for the end of the East India Company's reign
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CAST: Aamir Khan
Rani Mukherjee
Toby Stephens
Coral Beed
Amisha Patel
Kiron Kher
Mona Ambegaonkar
Alyssa Fountoutalis
Varsha Usgaonkar
Amin Hajee
Mukesh Tiwari
Subrata Dutta
Dibyendu Bhattacharya
Ahsan Baksh
Irfanouzzaman
Chirag Vohra
Lalit Tiwari
Anupam Shyam
Abhijit Lahiri
Ajai Rohilla
Shahbaaz Khan
Deep Raj Rana
Shrirang Godbole
Sohrab Ardeshir
Sanjay Swaraj
Tarun Kumar
Ram Gopal
Kenneth Cranham
Ben Nealon
Jeremy Clyde
Simon Chandler
Christopher Adamson
Stevan Rimkus
Tom Alter
Joel Guyton Lee
Albert Welling
Joanne Slater
Ronnie Toms
Graham Cull
Howard Lee
Jayne McKenna
Micheal Ward
Lisa Millett
Sanjeev Wilson
Pankaj Jha
Manoj Mishra
Mahendra Mewati
Sulabha Arya
Rohit Raj
Atul Kumar
Neeraj Sood
Dilip Pavle
Rajul Gaur
Rajesh Kareer
Amarjeet Amle
Alexander Klein
Manoj Shah
Jitendra Singh
Surya Pratap Singh
Neelkamal
Mohan Pandey
Saubhagya Shukla
Amar Banerjee
Chittaranjan Giri
Dinesh Lamba
Vivek Mishra
Anita Neha
Indu Verma
Pubali Sanyal
Disha Vakarni
Ravi Jhankal
Kailash Kher
Habib Tanvir
Richard Lane Smith
Thomas Castro
Agnes Darenius
Geoff Downer
Brian Dowden
Rajesh Tailand
Yarko
Mevlana
Shazan
Krupa Jayesh
Neha Daniel
Devender Kumar
Pandey
Ram Gopal Bajaj
Abhijeet Lehri
Om Puri
Murli Sharma
Richa Sharma
Irfanouz Zaman
Sophiya Haque
Ali Sichilongo
Laurence Spellman
Writing credits
Farrukh Dhondy
Original music by
A.R. Rahman
Cinematography by
Himman Dhamija
Directed by
Ketan Mehta
Produced by
Bobby Bedi
Ketan Mehta
Laurens C. Postma
Deepa Sahi
Production
Kaleidoscope Entertainment Pvt. Ltd.
Maya Movies
Released on
August 12, 2005
Songs from Mangal Pandey : The Rising Mangal Mangal (2.29)
Main Vari Vari (4.51)
Holi Re (4.51)
Rasiya (5.55)
Mangal Mangal(Agni) (2.25)
Takey Takey (4.31)
Al Maddat Maula (5.55)
Mangal Mangal (Aatma) (4.19)
MORE INFORMATION:
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It has been filmed in India over 6 months with a mix of British and Indian cast
Aishwarya Rai was supposedly to play the role of "Jwala" now played by Amisha Patel
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LINKS:
 Official Site
Microsite
Mangal Pandey at IMDB
Fan Site
The official blog
IndiaFM Review
Mangal Pandey at ApunKaChoice.Com
The Rising movie preview (Glamsham)
Mangal Pandey: The Rising
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