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Shown: January 17, 2012 at 6pm

Director : Ashutosh Gowariker

Country : India

Release Date : 2001

Duration : 224 mins

Language : Hindi

Subtitles : Yes

SHORT-LISTED : BEST FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FILM AT 2002 OSCARS

It’s 1895 and the villainous British offer to remove a crippling tax if the local villagers can beat them at cricket.  The best film ever made about cricket with blazing song and dance numbers.  A Bollywood classic.

“A lavish epic, a gorgeous love story, and a rollicking adventure yarn.  Larger than life and outrageously enjoyable, it’s got a dash of spaghetti western, a hint of Kurosawa, with a bracing shot of Kipling.”  (Peter Bradshaw – The Guardian)


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