The Legacy of Mangal Pandey Mangal Pandey is a name familiar to every Indian student. Known for his act of defiance against ...

Matadin Bhangi was a Dalit sweeper at the Barrackpore cartridge factory. He asked a Brahmin soldier for water and was refused ...

Bollywood cracks the epic code with "The Rising: Ballad of Mangal Pandey," a gorgeously lensed, well-structured audience-pleaser that harks back to classic Hollywood blockbusters of the '50s and '60s.

The film begins in 1857, when India was ruled by the British East India Company. Mangal Pandey is a sepoy, a soldier of Indian origin, in the army of the East India Company. Pandey is fighting in the ...

Mangal Pandey - The Rising is an epic tale of friendship, betrayal, love and sacrifice set against the backdrop of what the British called the sepoy mutiny but which for the Indians was the First War ...

Aamir Khan is one of the biggest stars of Bollywood cinema. Unlike the other two Khans (Sharukh and Salman), who dominated Indian blockbuster cinema of the 90s, he does not shoot multiple films ...

From the consequences of colonialism on the country’s economy and culture to the emergence of an independent state where an internal struggle and resolvable obstacles persist, it is a fitting tribute ...