Mangal Pandey: The Rising

Yesterday, I saw the movie Mangal Pandey: The Rising with a promising Bollywood actor in the lead role. There was a great hype about the movie. But I hadn't any great expectations from it. Afterall they were not going to create a history. They were just showing a small but significant event from Indian history. Sadly, I was really very disappointed with it. They tried to glorify the sacrifice of a sepoy Mangal Pandey by adding long senseless song-dance sequences and introducing fictional characters, item-song, mujra and girls with ultra-low cleavages.

There was nothng spectacular about the Aamir Khan's acting or A.R.Rehman's music. It seems that Bollywood still has a long way to go. They might make the largest number of movies but its the quality which matters..eventually..!!!

Question : Why did Mangal Pandey shot himself at the right side of his chest and not left...when he wanted to be a martyr ? Maybe, so that he could be saved by the Brits, hospitalized, operated, court-martialed and then hanged in public to spark the "War of Independence"..!!!