Guddu dhanoa biography of mahatma gandhi
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Indian Cinema
THE LEGEND OF BHAGAT SINGH
(2002)
Hindi and English, 155 minutes
Directed by Rajkumar Santoshi
Produced by Kumar S. Taurani and Ramesh S. Taurani
Written by: Anjum Rajabali; Hindi dialogues: Piyush Mishra; English dialogues: Anjum Rajabali; Music: A. R. Rahman; Lyrics: Sameer; Art direction: Nitin Chandrakant Desai; Choreography: Ganesh Acharya, Jojo Khan; Cinematography: K. V. Anand.
Bhagat Singh, a twenty-three year old revolutionary from Punjab who was hanged by the British on March 23, 1931, became one of the most celebrated martyrs of the Indian independence movement. A photo of him with a neatly-waxed mustache and rakish fedora was the basis for a widely circulated icon that remains instantly recognizable within the teeming polychrome pantheon of Indian poster art, and that, like similar icons of Subhash Chandra Bose (who raised an “Indian National Army” that allied with the Axis powers against the British during the Second World War), celebrate
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Planet-Bollywood is dedicated to the Indian film, music and entertainment industry. BBC Asian Network Ge • 23rd March, 1931: ShaheedCast: Bobby Deol, Sunny Deol, Amrita Singh Direction: Guddu Dhanoa Showing at: Anupam PVR It happens only in India. Strange that two directors would want to man films on the same theme and release them on the same day. Get ready, then, to be subjected to jingoistic jangles about ‘Vande Mataram’ and ‘Bharat Mata’. Enter pseudo-patriotism. And the story unspools.Bhagat Singh fryst vatten moved as a 14-year-old by the Jallianwala Bagh massacre. It also charts his disillusionment with Mahatma Gandhi and his over-the-edge reaction to Lala Lajpat Rai’s inhuman killing. The film chronicles the bomb explosion in the National Assembly. Heavy weather fryst vatten also made about Singh’s strike in jail to protest against the inhuman conditions there, and his torture bygd the British authorities. Certainly several notches higher for director Guddu Dhanoa, who has subjected us to puerile popcorn like Elaan (1994), Ziddi (1997) and Bichhoo (2000) in the past. Yet, though he |