Aamir Khan in Lagaan
Superstar Aamir Khan has made grand preparations to make his birthday memorable on 14 March. Aamir is going to be sixty years old on the day of Holi. What is the importance of sixty age in life, Aamir considers it very well, so he wants to leave an indelible impression by celebrating in a film style. Aamir selected 22 best films for this occasion and has decided to re-resign it. In Aamir’s eyes, this re-localize film festival is a flash back of his 35-year-old film career. His historical Lagaan film in these films also gives a new dimension to Aamir’s film life. The cocktail of cricket and cinema is important in many sense. It makes Aamir’s personality makeover. For this, minds were also put on a large scale, what were those- here we will discuss it.
Lagaan, directed by Ashutosh Gowariker, was released in cinemas on 15 June 2001. The film reached the Oscar, and after Mother India and Salaam Bombay set a record of India’s third such film which was nominated for the Academy Award in Best Foreign Language Category. Lagaan also received a lot of praise in all foreign film festivals. So far, all the films of Aamir on one side and alone lilac and popularity on the other side. It has a place in Hindi selected films. But this place was not very easy. Very few films get such success in history. Lagaan performed the best on story, screenplay, song, music, dialogue, acting, costume, characterization, location, set every front.
Amitabh Bachchan became the narrator
Significantly, before the rent, a tremendous atmosphere was created in favor of this film. A strategy was prepared to make the film popular with every angle. Amitabh Bachchan’s vice over was revealed as a master in the promo of Lagaan on TV, which raised the historical background of the film. Amitabh’s rows were- 1893… Champaner… A small village situated in the middle of the country… The people of this village also used to do farming to live… There was a cantonment of the British on the border of this village… There was a king on the south side. Raja used to collect the produce of the fields in the form of rent from the farmers of the village and the British used to take a part of that rent from these kings. In this way the British rule became strong in the country.
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Hidden cricket before release
Apart from this promo with Amitabh Bachchan’s voice -over, all the promotional videos of Lagaan were released, among the farmers of Champaner village, the British robes or songs of the film. In the publicity campaign of Lagaan, the fact was hidden that cricket is shown in it. Neither any promotional video nor any interview before release, Aamir Khan and any artist associated with the film allowed the fact that the fact in the media should be revealed. The audience saw cricket in Lagaan when the film was released. Critics named Lagaan as Sports Drama.
Story inspired by sports drama ‘new round’
After the release, the film started getting unprecedented praise, then Ashutosh Gowariker inaugurated the fact that his source of inspiration was a new round of Dilip Kumar’s film released in 1957. The new round was also a sports drama film and also the blobster of its time. After that, for a long time no one dared to make sports drama in commercial format. Except Prakash Jha’s film Hip Hip Hurray K. Cricket between the farmers and the British of the village was hidden in a very strategic way in the rent. The filmmakers team had admitted that if this fact had come to light before the release, it is possible that its popularity would have a little impact.
Special premiere for LK Advani
Lagaan was a film of Aamir Khan Production. Aamir Khan himself took all the responsibility of promoting this film. At the time when this film was released, the NDA government was at the center. Atal Bihari Vajpayee was the Prime Minister and LK Advani was the Union Home Minister. LK Advani has been fond of cinema and used to write reviews of films at the beginning of his journalistic life. Aamir Khan knew this fact about him very well. Aamir Khan laid a special premiere in Delhi. He specially invited LK Advani to watch the film.
It was a very big event. LK Advani came out watching the film and tied the bridge to praise Lagaan in the media. He said- After a long time he has got to see such a film, which impressed him a lot. This statement of LK Advani led to the wind in favor of the film. As soon as it was released, people broke towards the cinema hall. Lagaan became a blockbuster.
No gun, fight with cricket bat
Yes, it is true that the market was marketed under a special strategy but the quality of the film cannot be denied. In the atmosphere of Gadar Ek Prem Katha, Lagaan also created a lot of passion for the country love among the people. The special thing with the rent is that it also made a splash abroad. Woke up the spirit of non -resident Indians spread all over the world. The patriotism of the patriot was buried. The same vision was shown in portraying the lives of farmers on screen, which was seen in Bimal Roy’s two bighas of land.
The most beautiful aspect of the film was that the battle shown between the Indian farmers and the British in it, no one of the strips of blood was shed in it. It was probably the only film fighting the British. There was a war in sports and sports, not a fight for guns here. This was the most unique war of Indians against the British. Where cricket bat and wickets were weapons.
Dialogue in period and English caught large class
The story of this film was prepared by director Ashutosh Gowarikar himself. But its dialogues were written by famous Hindi writer KP Saxena. According to Paktatha, Aamir Khan needed the term of the period language in the dialogue of the film. KP Saxena wrote such dialogues according to his demand which climbed on the tongue of the people. The characterization of every character of the film came to light. Otherwise, the trend of characterization was over in a way. Lagaan once again reminded the Hindi filmmakers. Along with the period in the film, Hindi Khadi dialect and English were also used in full. With this, the film’s plank reached abroad from Des. Lagaan became Aamir Khan’s most memorable film.
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